sibylˈsɪb əl
sibyl
English Definitions:
sibyl (noun)
a woman who tells fortunes
sibyl (noun)
(ancient Rome) a woman who was regarded as an oracle or prophet
sibyl (Noun)
A pagan female oracle or prophetess, especially the Cumaean sibyl.
Sibyl (ProperNoun)
A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Sibyl (ProperNoun)
Alternative letter-case form of sibyl
Sibyl
The word Sibyl comes from the Greek word σίβυλλα sibylla, meaning prophetess. The earliest oracular seeresses known as the sibyls of antiquity, "who admittedly are known only through legend" prophesied at certain holy sites, under the divine influence of a deity, originally— at Delphi and Pessinos— one of the chthonic deities. Later in antiquity, sibyls wandered from place to place.
Sibyl
The sibyls (αἱ Σῐ́βυλλαι, singular Σῐ́βυλλᾰ) were prophetesses or oracles in Ancient Greece. The sibyls prophesied at holy sites. A sibyl at Delphi has been dated to as early as the eleventh century BC by Pausanias when he described local traditions in his writings from the second century AD. At first, there appears to have been only a single sibyl. By the fourth century BC, there appear to have been at least three more, Phrygian, Erythraean, and Hellespontine. By the first century BC, there were at least ten sibyls, located in Greece, Italy, the Levant, and Asia Minor.
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