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The Delphic Sibyl was a prophetess associated with early religious practices in Ancient Greece and is said to have been venerated from before the Trojan

five sibyls in the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel ceiling; the Delphic Sibyl, Libyan Sibyl, Persian Sibyl, Cumaean Sibyl, and the Erythraean Sibyl. The

every other sibyl, even her younger and more beautiful sisters, such as the Delphic Sibyl. There are various names for the Cumaean Sibyl besides the "Herophile"

subjects even on Tarot cards. A famous example constitutes Michelangelo's Delphic Sibyl (1509), the nineteenth-century German engraving, Oracle of Apollo at

prophet Jonah The Cumaean Sibyl The Erythraean Sibyl The Persian Sibyl The Delphic Sibyl The Libyan Sibyl Detail of the Delphic Sibyl The four corner pendentives

(1939). A History of the Delphic Oracle. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. ASIN B002NZWT0Y. Parke, Herbert William (1992) [1988]. Sibyls and Sibylline Prophecy in

Sibyl (PERSICHA) Ezekiel (EZECHIEL) Erythraean Sibyl (ERITHRAEA) Joel (IOEL) Zechariah (ZACHERIAS) – above the main door of the chapel Delphic Sibyl (DELPHICA)

Greeks to be at Delphi. Python, sometimes written Pytho, presided at the Delphic oracle, which existed in the cult center for its mother, Gaia, "Earth"

philosophical ideals. In Pär Lagerkvist's 1956 novel The Sibyl, Ahasuerus and a woman who was once the Delphic Sibyl each tell their stories, describing how an interaction

honor of the god Apollo. Later, administration of the games shifted to the Delphic Amphictyony, a council of twelve Greek tribes, and the Pythian Games were