- Sibyl - Wikipedia
The best known depiction is that of Michelangelo who shows five sibyls in the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel ceiling; the Delphic Sibyl, Libyan Sibyl, Persian Sibyl, Cumaean Sibyl, and the Erythraean Sibyl
- Sibyl | Prophetess, Oracle Seer | Britannica
Sibyl, prophetess in Greek legend and literature Tradition represented her as a woman of prodigious old age uttering predictions in ecstatic frenzy, but she was always a figure of the mythical past, and her prophecies, in Greek hexameters, were handed down in writing
- SIBYL Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of SIBYL is any of several prophetesses usually accepted as 10 in number and credited to widely separate parts of the ancient world (such as Babylonia, Egypt, Greece, and Italy)
- Sibyl (2019) - IMDb
A sly, sultry character study from filmmaker Justine Triet, SIBYL follows a psychotherapist (Virginie Efira) who decides to quit her practice and return to writing instead
- The Sibyls - FishEaters
Long before the Savior was born of the Virgin, and up to around the time of His first Advent, there are said to have lived wise women who inhabited shrines, temples, and caves, and who, being blessed "by the gods" with the gift of prophecy, read the signs of nature in order to foretell the future
- Sibyl and Sibylline Oracles - Jewish Virtual Library
The sibyl was a Greek prophetess-figure, apparently of Oriental origin The sibyl utters her predictions not on being consulted, like established oracles, but spontaneously, in ecstatic exclamations She is believed to dwell in grottos, to wander through many countries and to live for 1,000 years
- Sibyl | Encyclopedia. com
sibyl a woman in ancient times supposed to utter the oracles and prophecies of a god; in later times the number of sibyls was usually given as ten, living at different times and places in Asia, Africa, Greece, and Italy
- Sibyl | Facts, Information, and Mythology - Encyclopedia Mythica
The name is said to be formed from Διὸς (Dios) and βουλή (boulē), so that it would signify the counsel of Zeus 1 The first Sibyl, from whom all the rest are said to have derived their name, is said to have been a daughter of Dardanus and Neso
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