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

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.

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