The ancient Oracles have some kind of bad reputation. Take, for example the Oracle of Delphi: people still think the Pythia was high on gaz. There had been some recent discovery about it, in the recents years. There is a kernel of truth but there is more to it. I have read two books on the subjects (http://www.amazon.ca/Road-Delphi-Life-Afterlife-Oracles/dp/0374526109/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1435504697&sr=8-1&keywords=the+road+to+delphi) and (http://www.amazon.ca/Oracle-Ancient-Delphi-Science-Secrets/dp/0143038591/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1435504716&sr=8-1&keywords=the+oracle). The last one tell the most recent discoveries on Delphi. I think it is dating from a few years ago. I didn't heard any more news on the subject since.
Oracles like the Pythia or the Sybilles is something that interest me. If we look at the myths about them, they where inspired by the Gods and Goddesses. They channeled something inside them and it end up in spoken/written words. In a sense, it is close to what a writer can experience. There is a inspired spark that ignite the writer. The writer (or any other storyteller) end up spinning a tales around it. A novel/a screenplay or stage play is born.
The Sybille and the Pythia are still well known today. There is also the oracle of Olympia that is well known too. The difference with Olympia, the oracle was based on some technique involving nature. Priests were interpreting the winds in the leaves of oaks. Roman also excelled in the augury of flying birds. It is another well known technique for any Roman history fan. There is a book I read and it was on various places in the Ancient World that hosted an oracle (http://www.amazon.ca/Oracles-Ancient-World-Trevor-Curnow/dp/0715631942/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&qid=1435504760&sr=8-12&keywords=the+oracles+of+the+ancient+world). There was place that I didn't even knew existed on an divination level. In any way, I see parc and birds in another way now. I got some inspirations quite a few times as I was sitting in a parc.
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