Thompson’s Greek entry points at two Frazer notes (Apollodorus I 86 n. 2 and 312 n. 2), and both resolve to served chapters that split the motif’s two services: teaching and healing. Melampus buries the killed snakes and rears their young; grown, “they stood beside him at each of his shoulders as he slept” and “purged his ears with their tongues” — the kindness-for-knowledge exchange that made him a seer [The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK I, ch. IX]. In Crete the serpent helps without meaning to: shut in with the dead boy Glaucus, Polyidus kills a snake nearing the corpse; then “another serpent came, and, seeing the former one dead, departed”, returning “bringing a herb, and placed it on the whole body of the other” — and “no sooner was the herb so placed upon it” than the dead snake revived; Polyidus “applied the same herb to the body of Glaucus and raised him from the dead” [The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. III]. One serpent pays a debt, the other publishes a secret; both hand a mortal a power he lacked. The lone machine candidate — “Let the serpents keep the island”, a departing formula [The Kalevala, Rune XXIX] — is noise, named as such. Nineteen further apparatus rows wait unwired.