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	Sibyl, sibyls, Sibyls, sibyl, article, Greek, first, Oracle, Apollo, Greeks, oracle, known, Augustus - Sibyl
		The Persian Sibyl was said to be prophetic priestess presiding over the Apollonian Oracle; though her location remained vague enough so that she might be called the "Babylonian Sibyl", the Persian Sibyl is said to have foretold the exploits of Alexander the Great according to Nicanor's life of Alexander.
		The Delphic Sibyl was not involved in the operation of the Delphic Oracle and should be considered distinct from the Pythia, the priestess of Apollo.
		The Hellespontian Sibyl was born in the village of Marpessus near the small town of Gergitha, during the lifetimes of Solon and Cyrus the Great.
	www.alphasearch.org /Sibyl.html (2765 words)

	Britain.tv Wikipedia - Sibyl
		The Persian Sibyl was said to be prophetic priestess presiding over the Apollonian Oracle; though her location remained vague enough so that she might be called the "Babylonian Sibyl", the Persian Sibyl is said to have foretold the exploits of Alexander the Great.
		The Delphic Sibyl was not involved in the operation of the Delphic Oracle and should be considered distinct from the Pythia, the priestess of Apollo.
		The Hellespontian Sibyl was born in the village of Marpessus near the small town of Gergitha, during the lifetimes of Solon and Cyrus the Great.
	www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Sibyl (2709 words)

	Sibyl
		Sibyls are not identified by personal name, but by names that refer to the location of their temples, including one associated to an unnamed temple in Libya.
		Late Gothic Sibyls, each with her emblem and a single line of prophecy, lettered on a fluttering banderole, were fixtures of Late Gothic illuminations, in 14th and 15th-century France and Germany[1] (http://www.lancs.ac.uk/depts/english/courses/214/sibyls/sibyls.htm).
		Christians were especially impressed with the Cumaean Sibyl too, for in Vergil's Fourth Eclogue she foretells the coming of a savior, a flattering reference to the poet's patron, whom Christians identified as Jesus.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/LX/Sibyl.html (1221 words)

	Sibyl - Information at Halfvalue.com
		The Persian Sibyl was said to be prophetic priestess presiding over the Apollonian Oracle; though her location remained vague enough so that she might be called the "Babylonian Sibyl", the Persian Sibyl is said to have foretold the exploits of Alexander the Great.
		Christians were especially impressed with the Cumaean Sibyl too, for in Virgil's Fourth Eclogue she foretells the coming of a savior, a flattering reference to the poet's patron, whom Christians however identified as Jesus.
		Late Gothic Sibyls, each with her emblem and a single line of prophecy, lettered on a fluttering banderole, were fixtures of Late Gothic illuminations, in 14th and 15th-century France and Germany[3].
	www.halfvalue.com /wiki.jsp?topic=Sibyl (2781 words)

	Sibyl information - Search.com
		Sibyls are not identified by a personal name, but by names that refer to the location of their temenos, or shrine.
		The Persian Sibyl was said to be prophetic priestess presiding over the Apollonian Oracle; though her location remained vague enough so that she might be called the "Babylonian Sibyl", the Persian Sibyl is said to have foretold the exploits of Alexander the Great according to Nicanor's life of Alexander.
		Christians were especially impressed with the Cumaean Sibyl too, for in Virgil's Fourth Eclogue she foretells the coming of a savior, a flattering reference to the poet's patron, whom Christians identified as Jesus.
	domainhelp.search.com /reference/Sibyl (2893 words)

	The Myth of Pythia
		Sibyls and their Cities in the Roman WorldSibyls are not identified by personal name, but by names that refer to the location of their temples, including one associated to an unnamed temple in Libya.
		The Sibyl sat on a tripod over a cleft in the Sibylline Rock, gaining her often puzzling predictions from it.
		Pausanias claimed that the Sibyl was "born between man and goddess, daughter of sea monsters and an immortal nymph".
	www.sciencefictionbuzz.com /pythia.html (816 words)

	The Sibyl's Urn by John T. Cullen (historical fantasy)--Along with a dying professor, a beautiful nymph from beyond ...
		The last set (five panels) are strictly pagan in nature: five of the ten most famous Sibyls, or prophetesses, of the ancient world.
		The most famous is the Oracle at Delphi in Greece, kind of the mother of all Sibyls to put a fine point on it.
		The fact is, though, that some of the finest Renaissance minds were extremely creative, if not a trifle overly so, in uniting the themes of natural and supernatural lore to form a seamless spiritual garment.
	www.johntcullen.com /sibyls-urn/chapter05.html (6671 words)

	Category:Sibyls - WiccanWeb.ca (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Maass and his work in 1879, that only two of the Greek Sibyls were historical, Erythraean Sibyl, who is thought to have lived in the eighth century BC, and Samian Sibyl who lived somewhat later.
		Whether the sibyl in question was the Etruscan Sibyl of Tibur or the Cumaean Sibyl of Cumae is not always clear.
		It had a temple sacred to Apollo Gergithius, and was said to have given birth to the Sibyl, who is sometimes called Erythraean Sibyl, from Erythrae, a small place on Mount Ida (Dionysius of Halicarnassus i.
	www.wiccanweb.ca /wiki/index.php/Category:Sibyls (2758 words)

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		The are foretold by the Sibyl as being a part of Rome in Bk.
		In his appeal to the Sibyl at Cumae Aeneas acknowledges Hecate as the goddess who put her in charge of the forest of Avernus, one of the entrances to the Underworld; in a later encounter with Aeneas, Tisiphone uses the same phrase.
		In a sacrifice the Sibyl invokes Hecate as 'powerful in the Sky and in Erebus', an interesting deviation from her normal sphere.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /~jfarrell/temp/vp/july31/names.all.txt (22781 words)

	Tribune Building - Stones
		This piece of rock was taken from Sibyl’s Cave in Cumae, Naples, Italy.
		Each sibyl, or prophetess, had their own cave where they told the future and their secrets to visitors
		Slope instabilities in the pyroclastic deposits of the Phlegraean district and the carbonate Apennine (Campania, Italy).
	www.op97.org /julian/tribrocks/rocks/059/index.html (158 words)

	Italy
		Italy is a mountainous country, dominated by two large mountain systems the Alps in the north and the Apennines throughout the peninsula.
		The Apennines extend across Italy in the north, follow the east coast across the central region, then turn toward the west coast, and, interrupted by the narrow Strait of Messina, continue into Sicily.
		In the Apennine zone extending the length of the peninsula, a typical tree is the holm oak, while the area closer to the sea is characterized by the olive, oleander, carob, mastic, and the Aleppo pine.
	itc3.tripod.com /italy.htm (11038 words)

	Tribune Building - Stones (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		This piece of rock was taken from Sibyl’s Cave in Cumae, Naples, Italy.
		Each sibyl, or prophetess, had their own cave where they told the future and their secrets to visitors
		Slope instabilities in the pyroclastic deposits of the Phlegraean district and the carbonate Apennine (Campania, Italy).
	www.op97.k12.il.us /julian/tribrocks/rocks/059/index.html (158 words)

	ANACALYPSIS
		The location of these Sibyls around the Casa Santa at Loretto clearly proves, that the Roman church privately maintained the mythological character of the Virgin Mary, and her close connexion with these celebrated ladies.
		Lardner admits that the old fathers call the Sibyls prophetesses in the strictest sense of the word.* The Sibyls were known as prophetesses to Plato, to Aristotle, Diodorus Siculus, Strabo, Plutarch, Pausanias, Cicero, Varro, Virgil, Ovid, Tacitus, Juvenal, and Pliny.
		But the Sibyls all agree that there were to be what are called ten generations or ages of the world in all; but the Erythræan Sibyl is the only one who correctly states them to begin with Adam.
	members.tripod.com /~pc93/anacv1b10.htm (16964 words)

	Property and Information on Properties for Sale in Campania Italy
		The Campania region of Italy stretches from the southern Apennine mountain range to the coastline between the Gulf of Gaeta and the Gulf of Policastro.
		Its peculiarity derives from the extent and diversity of the land it encompasses.
		In the story, the Trojan Aeneas is instructed by his dead father to stop at Cumae, where Aeneas consults Sibyl, the oracle of Apollo, in her cave.
	www.realpointitaly.com /discover-campania.htm (3824 words)

	CHAPTER - LAST VICTORY AND DEATH OF BELISARIUS, DEATH OF JUSTINIAN
		Totila passed the Po, traversed the Apennine, suspended the important conquest of Ravenna, Florence, and Rome, and marched through the heart of Italy, to form the siege or rather the blockade, of Naples.
		Their industry had scooped the Sibyl’s cave into a prodigious mine; combustible materials were introduced to consume the temporary props: the wall and the gate of Cumae sunk into the cavern, but the ruins formed a deep and inaccessible precipice.
		On the fragment of a rock Aligern stood alone and unshaken, till he calmly surveyed the hopeless condition of his country, and judged it more honorable to be the friend of Narses, than the slave of the Franks.
	www.godrules.net /library/gibbon/82gibbon_d5.htm (10195 words)

	DECLINE & FALL
		Totila passed the Po, (E) traversed the Apennine, suspended the important conquest of Ravenna, Florence, and Rome, and marched through the heart of Italy, to form the siege or rather the blockade, of Naples.
		Their industry had scooped the Sibyl's cave (46) into a prodigious mine; combustible materials were introduced to consume the temporary props: the wall and the gate of Cumae sunk into the cavern, but the ruins formed a deep and inaccessible precipice.
		That nymph, the wife of Dardanus, was unable to support the ruin of her country: she abandoned the dances of her sister orbs, fled from the zodiac to the north pole, and obtained, from her dishevelled locks, the name of the comet.
	matrix.csustan.edu /XLib/History/Decline/volume2/chap43.htm (15231 words)

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		Sibylla A sibyl: originally either a word (apparently Greek, but possibly borrowed by the Greeks from another language) meaning "prophetess" or a proper name that came to be used of many prophetic women.
		There existed in antiquity various lists of the sibyls who were associated with specific places existed in antiquity; among those with which Vergil must have been familiar was that of M. Terentius Varro, which appears in his work on religion (Res Divinae) and includes the Cumaean Sibyl, who appears in Aeneid 6.
		Various collections of Sibylline oracles continued to be consulted until late antiquity, and legends about the sibylls of antiquity survived through the Middle Ages into the Renaissance and were an important subject in the visual arts.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /~jfarrell/temp/vp/namesgloss/joenames.txt (3790 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Sibyl
		In the Middle Ages the number of Sibyls was canonized as twelve, a symbolic number.
		See, for example, the Apennine Sibyl, though sometimes, e.g.
		Late Gothic Sibyls, each with her emblem and a single line of prophecy, lettered on a fluttering banderole, were fixtures of Late Gothic illuminations, in 14th and 15th-century France and Germany
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Sibyl (2680 words)

	The Aeneid
		At dead of night in front of the dark cavern on the bank of the somber lake she slaughtered four coal-fl bullocks to Hecate, the dread Goddess of Night.
		As Aeneas stared in wonder the Sibyl told him they had reached the junction of two great rivers of the underworld, the Cocytus, named of lamentation loud, and the Acheron.
		The Sibyl, however, bade him have no fear, but fasten boldly the golden bough on the wall that faced the crossroads.
	www.idmon.freeserve.co.uk /zmyth9a.htm (3547 words)

	Editions: Letters
		This part of the Apennine is far less beautiful than the Alps; the mountains are wide and wild, and the whole scenery broad and undetermined-the imagination cannot find a home in it.
		But then there are the Apennines on one side, and Rome and St. Peter's on the other, and it is intersected by perpetual dells clothed with arbutus and ilex.
		We passed through the cavern of the Sibyl (not Virgil's Sybil) which pierces one of the hills which circumscribe the lake, and came to a calm and lovely basin of water, surrounded by dark woody hills, and profoundly solitary.
	www.wam.umd.edu /~djb/shelley/1840letters.html (21793 words)

	Fornovo
		Yet the trumpets which rang on July 6th, 1495, for the onset, sounded the réveille of the modern world ; and in the inconclusive termination of the struggle of that day the Italians were already judged and sentenced as a nation.
		At the fall of evening Europe was already looking northward; and the last years of the fifteenth century were opening an act which closed in blood at Paris on the ending of the eighteenth.
		Moving quickly through the Papal States and Tuscany, he engaged his troops in the passes of the Apennines near Pontremoli, and on July 5th, 1495, took up his quarters in the village of Fornovo.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles29/southern-europe-9.shtml (5848 words)

	Apennine Sibyl toads Apennine Sibyl
		Below the peak, in a small enclosed valley are the two small lakes called the Laghetti di Pilato, at an altitude of 1940 meters, where a remorseful Pontius Pilate's body was buried in the waters (a similar legend is told of Mons Pilatus in Switzerland; see Pontius Pilate).
		She shows him the delights and horrors of her cavern, where sinners have been changed to the appropriate animals, but where sin is the only path to the knowledge of his real parents that he seeks, and Guerrin has to flee.
		The Mountain Apennine here looms over the country with exceedingly high cragged tops, in which one finds that huge cave called Sibyllas cave, (in their language Grotta de la Sibylla) and which the poets pretend to be the Elysian Fields.
	www.find-ask.com /Encyclopedia/Apennine_Sibyl/Apennine_Sibyl.html (885 words)

	Italy's Sibillini Mountains
		Our base for exploration of the park is two charming villas, set in 30 acres of land in the most unspoilt area of the eastern Apennines, a region steeped in history and legend.
		Each has its own mystique and legends; the soothsayer Sibyl was alleged to live in a cave on the former and it is said that Pontius Pilate was buried on Monte Vettore.
		Of more relevance to our holiday, the fairly steep walks to reach the higher elevations are rewarded by carpets of gentians, Edelweiss and other alpine favourites whilst the lower slopes are a botanist’s dream containing various species of orchid, Martagon Lily, Alpine Buckthorn and many other much prized species.
	www.naturetrek.co.uk /wildlife-holidays-in-europe/detailsdb.asp?ID=335 (927 words)

	Sibyl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Pronunciation: sib'-ul The word sibyl comes (via Latin) from the ancient Greek word sibylla, meaning prophetess.
		Michelangelo's rendering of the Delphic Sibyl The Sibyls were also represented in publicly available art.
		Late Gothic Sibyls, each with her emblem and a single line of prophecy, lettered on a fluttering banderole, were fixtures of Late Gothic illuminations, in 14th and 15th-century France and Germanyhttp://www.lancs.ac.uk/depts/english/courses/214/sibyls/sibyls.htm.
	sibyl.iqnaut.net (1073 words)

	Laverna, Roman Goddess of Thieves--Roman gods and goddesses Underworld goddesses Ancient Rome pagan gods and goddesses ...
		The Porta Lavernalis (Lavernal Gate) on the Aventine Hill was named for Her, and She had an altar nearby.
		She also had a sacred grove on the Via Saleria, a famous ancient highway that went crosswise across the calf of the boot of Italy, beginning in Rome, following the River Tiber for a ways, then crossing the Apennine Mountains to the Adriatic Sea.
		Originally an Underworld goddess of the Etruscans, Laverna became goddess of thieves because thieves operate in darkness.
	www.thaliatook.com /AMGG/laverna.html (326 words)

	GB 2 Le Marche (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The territory, famous for the beauty of its landscapes, has its own geographical characteristics, with a strong contrast between the mainly mountainous west side and the gentle hills of the eastern, coastal region.
		The high hinterland is formed by the Apennine mountains, the highest range of which is the Sibillini, which give their name to the area’s national park.
		In this hinterland, about 70 km from the coast, is situated the town of Camerino, which was the centre of the first Marca.
	www.restaurocasa.it /gb2lemarche.html (567 words)

	This Week in Goddess Worship: Laverna \| Our Word
		It was a desolate, forbidding place, believed by the Romans to be an entrance to the Underworld--both Odysseus (on the advice of Kirke) and Aeneas were said to have communicated with the Underworld there.
		Named after the unhealthy air from the marshes that bordered it, Lake Avernus is not far from the Shrine of the Cumaean Sibyl, who spoke with the Dead.
		The Romans (incorrectly) thought the name derived from the Greek aornos meaning, "no birds", because the marsh gasses were so powerful they were believed to kill birds flying over the lake.
	www.ourword.org /node/796 (480 words)

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		To this petition the Sibyl answers:--Desine fata Deum flecti sperare precando:--Cease to hope that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayer."--Aeneid, vi.
		And he to me, "My writing is plain, and the hope of these is not fallacious, if well it is regarded with sound mind; for top of judgment vails not itself because a fire of love may, in one instant, fulfil that which he who is stationed here must satisfy.
		Nor will I leave to speak though another hear me: and well it will be for this one if hereafter he mind him of that which a true spirit discloses to me. [1] These words are spoken by Guido del Duca, who is answered by Rinieri de' Calboli; both of them from the Romagna.
	www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/etext99/2ddcn10.txt (15940 words)

	History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire (1845) By Edward Gibbon Esq.-Volume 2 Chapter 24- from Nalanda ...
		The secret vision of Constantine could be disproved only by the event; and the intrepid hero who had passed the Alps and the Apennine, might view with careless despair the consequences of a defeat under the walls of Rome.
		The senate and people, exulting in their own deliverance from an odious tyrant, acknowledged that the victory of Constantine surpassed the powers of man, without daring to insinuate that it had been obtained by the protection of the gods.
		He chiefly depends on a mysterious acrostic, composed in the sixth age after the Deluge, by the Erythraean Sibyl, and translated by Cicero into Latin.
	www.nalanda.nitc.ac.in /resources/english/etext-project/history/rome/volume2.chapter24.html (3872 words)

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