Apollo, god of prophecy, oracles, music, art, protector of and disease of boys and men, and archery.
Apollo holds his bow and arrows behind, while he strums the lyre given to him by hermes. Near the sun flies apollos white crow/raven. The column on the right is capped with a cow, representing his sacred animal as a god of herds. The serpent Python sits dead at his feet, killed by apollos arrow so that the god could takeover the delphi temple location. The temple complex sits underneath the god, while o. The far right, the PYTHIA ( apollos priestess) sitting upon a tripod, breathes the hallucinatory gasses seeping up from the earth to get her prophecies which she bestows upon visitors.
The sybils were like oracles for the ancient Greeks who were influenced by divine inspiration and made prophecies (always true ones) who -mostly- caused all trouble and fun in every great ancient Greek mythical story.
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“Admetos and Alkestis receiving the oracle”. Roman fresco found in Herculaneum, Italy.
Admetos and his wife Alkestis receive the oracle saying that one of them will die unless a relative offers himself to go to Hades instead; Admetos´ parents listen.
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