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The word oracle comes from the Latin verb ōrāre, "to speak" and properly refers to the priest or priestess uttering the prediction. In extended use, oracle may also refer to the site of the oracle, and to the oracular utterances themselves, called khrēsmoí (χρησμοί) in Greek. Oracles were thought to be portals through which the gods ...
Social and cultural anthropology. v. t. e. Pythia ( / ˈpɪθiə /; [1] Ancient Greek: Πυθία [pyːˈtʰíaː]) was the name of the high priestess of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. She specifically served as its oracle and was known as the Oracle of Delphi. Her title was also historically glossed in English as the Pythoness.
Delphi among the main Greek sanctuaries. Delphi ( / ˈdɛlfaɪ, ˈdɛlfi /; [1] Greek: Δελφοί [ðelˈfi] ), [a] in legend previously called Pytho (Πυθώ), was an ancient sacred precinct and the seat of Pythia, the major oracle who was consulted about important decisions throughout the ancient classical world. The ancient Greeks ...
Category. : Classical oracles. History portal. Ancient Greece portal. Religion portal. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Classical oracles. Classical oracles is a category for the oracle -sites, prophets, seers, prophetic daemons and oracular books - real, forged or imagined - of Greek and Roman antiquity .
Yes. Dodona ( / doʊˈdoʊnə /; Doric Greek: Δωδώνα, romanized: Dōdṓnā, Ionic and Attic Greek: Δωδώνη, [1] Dōdṓnē) in Epirus in northwestern Greece was the oldest Hellenic oracle, possibly dating to the 2nd millennium BC E according to Herodotus. The earliest accounts in Homer describe Dodona as an oracle of Zeus.
Cassandra or Kassandra ( / kəˈsændrə /; [2] Ancient Greek: Κασσάνδρα, pronounced [kas:ándra], also Greek: Κασσάνδρα, and sometimes referred to as Alexandra) [3] in Greek mythology was a Trojan priestess dedicated to the god Apollo and fated by him to utter true prophecies but never to be believed.
The English word sibyl ( / ˈsɪbəl / or /ˈsɪbɪl/) is from Middle English, via the Old French sibile and the Latin sibylla from the ancient Greek Σίβυλλα ( Sibylla ). [5] Varro derived the name from an Aeolic sioboulla, the equivalent of Attic theobule ("divine counsel"). [6] This etymology is not accepted in modern handbooks, which ...
Mythology. Python, sometimes written Pytho, presided at the Delphic oracle, which existed in the cult center for its mother, Gaia, "Earth", Pytho being the place name that was substituted for the earlier Krisa. [1] Greeks considered the site to be the center of the Earth, represented by a stone, the omphalos or navel, which Python guarded.