Pythia
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Pythia was the title of the high priestess of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi in central Greece. She served as its oracle and was known as the Oracle of Delphi. Her title was sometimes historically glo
The Temple of Apollo at Delphi
The omphalos in the museum of Delphi
The Oracle of Delphi Entranced by Heinrich Leutemann
View of Delphi with Sacrificial Procession by Claude Lorrain
Oracle
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An oracle is a person or thing considered to provide insight, wise counsel or prophetic predictions, most notably including precognition of the future, inspired by deities. If done through occultic me
Pythia
…Pythia (; Ancient Greek: Πυθία ) was the title of the high priestess of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi in central Greece. She served as its oracle and was known as the Oracle of Delphi. Her title was sometimes historically glossed in English as the Pythoness. The Pythia was established at the…
Consulting the Oracle (1884) by John William Waterhouse, showing eight priestesses in a temple of prophecy
The ruins of the Temple of Apollo at Didyma
Oracle bone of the Shang dynasty, ancient China