Consult the oracle !
The Classics Department of the University College of London with an application gives you the opportunity to enjoy the experience to ask an oracle from a Pithia. Who can resist this and without having to travel to an oracle. The only thing you need to remember is that the oracle often gave incomprehensible oracles.
If you are ready for such an experience follow the link HERE.
The word oracle in Greek can mean several related things. It means a god who predicts the future, like Apollo. It also means the priest who hears the message, and the message itself, and the place where the priest hears the message. Most often it means the priest or the message.
If you are ready for such an experience follow the link HERE.
The word oracle in Greek can mean several related things. It means a god who predicts the future, like Apollo. It also means the priest who hears the message, and the message itself, and the place where the priest hears the message. Most often it means the priest or the message.
The Greeks believe that you could communicate with the gods at certain places, at certain times, through certain people, and that the gods would give you advice and maybe tell you what was going to happen in the future. In Greece there are many oracles.
The most well known are the Oracle of Delphi and the Oracle of Dodoni.
The oracle of the Delphi dedicated to Apollo has been known from the 7th century BC and played an important role, but it is important to note that not every day was favorable to the request of a prophecy. Besides offering an amount of money to the oracle, people also had to slaughter a goat. The sibyl or priestess of the oracle at Delphi was known as the Pythia who sat on a tripod seat, chewing bay leaves and drinking water from the sacred spring Kassotida. While in a trance, the Pythia was raving and her words were translated by the priests of the temple into hexameters. Most of the Pythia’s oracles were dark and ambiguous and people translated them in any way that suited them.
Dodona was another oracle devoted to the Mother Goddess identified at other sites with Rhea or Gaia, but here called Dione. The shrine of Dodona was the oldest Hellenic oracle, according to the fifth-century historian Herodotus and in fact, dates to pre-Hellenic times, perhaps as early as the second millennium BC when the tradition probably spread from Egypt. Zeus displaced the Mother goddess and assimilated her as Aphrodite.
Dodona was another oracle devoted to the Mother Goddess identified at other sites with Rhea or Gaia, but here called Dione. The shrine of Dodona was the oldest Hellenic oracle, according to the fifth-century historian Herodotus and in fact, dates to pre-Hellenic times, perhaps as early as the second millennium BC when the tradition probably spread from Egypt. Zeus displaced the Mother goddess and assimilated her as Aphrodite.
It became the second most important oracle in ancient Greece, which later was dedicated to Zeus and to Heracles during the classical period of Greece. At Dodona Zeus was worshiped as Zeus Naios or Naos (god of springs Naiads, from a spring which existed under the oak), and Zeus Bouleos (chancellor). Priestesses and priests interpreted the rustling of the oak leaves to determine the correct actions to be taken. The oracle was shared by Dione and Zeus.
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