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Delphi
An ancient town of Phocis, site of the most
influential oracle of the ancient world, at
the temple of Apollo on Mount Parnassus,
north of the Gulf of Corinth.
The temple's origins are lost in myth.
Greeks
believed that the earth-goddess Ge and her daughter Themis had given answers (also called
oracles) at this location, which was then called Pytho, before Apollo took possession by
slaying a great she-dragon.
Delphi was regarded as the 'navel of
the earth', and in the temple there was a white stone bound with a red ribbon to represent
the navel and umbilical cord. This sacred stone supposedly marked the exact center of the
Earth. Nearby flowed the sacred fountain of Castalia.
According to the Greek historian
Herodotus, the oracles were delivered by Apollo's priestess, the Pythia, seated on a
tripod and speaking in a trance induced by
natural gases seeping through the rocks. Her mutterings were then interpreted and
transmitted to inquirers by the priests, who rendered them in deliberately vague verse.
Recent scholars say that, upon close
study of all of the reliable evidence, they came to the conclusion that there was no chasm
or vapors involved, and that the Pythia did not go into a trance or frenzy, crying
incoherently. Furthermore, she spoke clearly, coherently, and directly to the people
seeking advice.
The oracle at Delphi was consulted
before any important step was taken in affairs of state. Thus it exerted a powerful
influence on the history of the Greeks. The common reverence for its words, together with
the Pythian festivals and games held near the shrine every four years, made for unity in
the political and religious life of the Greek world.
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