Oracle Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! PreviewAdvancedSpecial charactersHelpHeadingLevel 2Level 3Level 4Level 5FormatInsertLatinLatin extendedIPASymbolsGreekGreek extendedCyrillicArabicArabic extendedHebrewBanglaTamilTeluguSinhalaDevanagariGujaratiThaiLaoKhmerCanadian AboriginalRunesÁáÀàÂâÄäÃãǍǎĀāĂ㥹ÅåĆćĈĉÇçČčĊċĐđĎďÉéÈèÊêËëĚěĒēĔĕĖėĘęĜĝĢģĞğĠġĤĥĦħÍíÌìÎîÏïĨĩǏǐĪīĬĭİıĮįĴĵĶķĹĺĻļĽľŁłŃńÑñŅņŇňÓóÒòÔôÖöÕõǑǒŌōŎŏǪǫŐőŔŕŖŗŘřŚśŜŝŞşŠšȘșȚțŤťÚúÙùÛûÜüŨũŮůǓǔŪūǖǘǚǜŬŭŲųŰűŴŵÝýŶŷŸÿȲȳŹźŽžŻżÆæǢǣØøŒœßÐðÞþƏəFormattingLinksHeadingsListsFilesDiscussionReferencesDescriptionWhat you typeWhat you getItalic''Italic text''Italic textBold'''Bold text'''Bold textBold & italic'''''Bold & italic text'''''Bold & italic textDescriptionWhat you typeWhat you getReferencePage text.<ref>[https://www.example.org/ Link text], additional text.</ref>Page text.[1]Named referencePage text.<ref name="test">[https://www.example.org/ Link text]</ref>Page text.[2]Additional use of the same referencePage text.<ref name="test" />Page text.[2]Display references<references />↑ Link text, additional text.↑ Link text==Origins== [[Walter Burkert]] observes that "Frenzied women from whose lips the God speaks" are recorded in the [[Near East]] as in [[Mari, Syria|Mari]] in the second millennium BC and in Assyria in the first millennium BC.<ref>Walter Burkert.''Greek Religion''. Harvard University Press.1985.p 116-118</ref> In Egypt, the goddess [[Wadjet]] (eye of the moon) was depicted as a snake-headed woman or a woman with two snake-heads. Her oracle was in the renowned temple in [[Per-Wadjet]] (Greek name [[Buto]]). The oracle of Wadjet may have been the source for the oracular tradition which spread from Egypt to Greece.<ref>[[Herodotus]], ''[[Histories (Herodotus)|The Histories]]'', ii 55, and vii 134.</ref> Evans linked Wadjet with the "[[Minoan snake goddess figurines|Minoan Snake Goddess]]".<ref>Cristopher L.C. Whitcomp.''Minoan Snake goddess''.8.''Snakes, Egypt, Magic and wome''</ref> At the oracle of [[Dodona]] she is called [[Dione (Titaness/Oceanid)|Diōnē]] (the feminine form of ''Diós'', [[genitive]] of ''Zeus''; or of ''dīos'', "godly", literally "heavenly"), who represents the earth-fertile soil, probably the chief female goddess of the [[Proto-Indo-European language|proto-Indo-European]] pantheon{{fact|date=June 2020}}. [[Python (mythology)|Python]], daughter (or son) of [[Gaia (mythology)|Gaia]] was the earth dragon of [[Delphi]] represented as a [[serpent (symbolism)|serpent]] and became the chthonic deity, enemy of [[Apollo]], who slew her and possessed the oracle.<ref>''Hymn to Pythian Apollo''.363,369</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page