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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)
The Sibyls - FishEaters 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
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 | Facts, Information, and Mythology - Encyclopedia Mythica Sibyl Is the name by which several prophetic women are designated who occur in various countries and at different times in antiquity The name is said to be formed from Διὸς (Dios) and βουλή (boulē), so that it would signify the counsel of Zeus 1
Sibyl: The soothsayer of ancient Greece who foretold the coming of . . . One of the most important oracles of antiquity was located in the first ancient colony of the Greeks in the West, in Kimi, Italy The priestess, when she wished to consult Apollo, entered a sea cave The priestess was Sibylla, respected and esteemed by all, from the last peasant to the most important king
Sibyls - Myth Encyclopedia The sibyls were female prophets of Greek and Roman mythology Their prophecies, which emerged as riddles to be interpreted by priests, were inspired by Apollo* or other gods The number of sibyls varied from 1 to 12 prophet one who claims to have received divine messages or insights
SIBYL - JewishEncyclopedia. com Woman who prophesied, while in a state of frenzy, under the supposed inspiration of a deity In the Jewish sense of persons who felt themselves spiritually impelled to speak to the people in the name of God, prophets were unknown to the ancient Greeks and Romans, among whom prophecy was limited to the deliverances of the sibyls (σίβυλλαι)
Sibylline Oracles | Oxford Classical Dictionary The Sibylline Oracles had a long life The Sibyl was in origin a single Greek prophetess, renowned for the accuracy of her forecasts, divinely inspired, but portrayed as mad or raving, and regularly spewing forth dire forebodings