Sibyl

The word sibyl comes (via Latin) from the Greek word sibylla, meaning prophetess. The earlier oracular seeresses known as the sibyls of antiquity prophesied at certain holy sites, probably all of pre-Indo-European origin, under the divine influence of a , originally one of the chthonic earth-goddesses. Later in antiquity, sibyls wandered from place to place.

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Homer seems to have been unaware of a Sibyl. The first Greek writer, so far as we know, who mentions a sibyl is Heraclitus, in the 5th century BCE:

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:'The Sibyl, with frenzied mouth uttering things not to be laughed at, unadorned and unperfumed, yet reaches to a thousand years with her voice by aid of the god.' (Heraclitus, fragment 12)

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Sibyls are not identified by a personal name, but by names that refer to the location of their temenos, for shrine.

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Latin: Latin is an Indo-European language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. It gained great importance as the formal language of the Roman Empire. All Romance languages are descended from Latin, and many words based on Latin are found in other modern languages such as English. The ...

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Prophet: In numerous religions, including Abrahamic religions, Jah religions, Sikhism, and many forms of Paganism, a prophet is an intermediary with a deity, particularly someone who claims to speak for the deity or interprets the deity's will or mind. A prophet usually operates through some means of divinat...

Sibyl related Images and Photos (experimental)

Sibyl	Mademoiselle Sibyl Sanderson	The Eritrean Sibyl	The Egyptian Sibyl
The Sibyl of Tibur Foretells the Imminent Coming of Jesus to the Emperor Augustus	Emperor Augustus and the Sibyl 1535	Augustus and the Tiburtine Sibyl 16th century	Augustus and the Tiburtine Sibyl