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Re: CHAT: The Pythia (was: hi brethren)

From:Thomas R. Wier <artabanos@...>
Date:Friday, March 24, 2000, 18:38
Raymond Brown wrote:

> What's rather odd is that the very male Apollo has to possess the body of a > female to make his oracular utterances.
That is an interesting question. Could it be that it was just synchretism of some earlier local religious tradition with an imported cult? This would have had to be in archaic period, if not earlier. ====================================== Tom Wier <artabanos@...> ICQ#: 4315704 AIM: trwier "Cogito ergo sum, sed credo ergo ero." ======================================