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	Sacred Places: The Sacred Cave
		In various cultures, caves have been location for the celebration of diverse cults and mysteries, and this was most likely the case at Lascaux.
		The Greek god Zeus was born in a cave on Mount Ida (or Mount Dikte) on the Island of Crete.
		Sacred caves are found throughout Greece, such as the Corycian Cave at Delphi sacred to the nymph Corycia and Pan
	witcombe.sbc.edu /sacredplaces/caves.html (553 words)

	Typhon Group: Healthcare Solutions
		But Typhon twined about him and gripped him in his coils, and wresting the sickle from him severed the sinews of his hands and feet, and lifting him on his shoulders carried him through the sea to Cilicia and deposited him on arrival in the Corycian cave.
		Likewise he put away the sinews there also, hidden in a bearskin, and he set to guard them the she-dragon Delphyne, who was a half-bestial maiden.
		She cowered in a cave, protecting Typhon's offspring, and Zeus let them live as a challenge to future heroes.
	www.typhongroup.com /myth (1026 words)

	Mammoth Cave National Park -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The complete name of the cave system is the Flint-Mammoth-Joppa-Toohey Ridge Cave System, named for the ridges under which the caves have formed.
		It was established as a (A tract of land declared by the national government to be public property) National park on 1 July 1941.
		The cave was owned by Franklin Gorin by the War of 1812 and the cave was being mined for (A deliquescent salt that is soluble in water; sometimes used as a source of nitrogen in fertilizers) calcium nitrate (refined from bat guano and converted into the saltpeter, an ingredient of gunpowder).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/M/Ma/Mammoth_Cave_National_Park.htm (856 words)

	Caves of Greece: Korykio Andro - Corycian Cave
		This cave is on the marked E4 European long distance trail and is about a 4 hours walk from Dhelfi, Delphi or Delfi, now known as Apóllonos.
		Their 30 day investigation produced a tremendous number and range of objects from all periods of antiquity: a rare Neolithic male figurine, Mycenean shards, bone flutes, iron and bronze rings, miniture bronze statutes, 50,000 terra cotta figurines from the classical period and 24,000 astragoloi, or "knucklebones" (used for astragolomancy, or "prophecy by knucklebones").
		It is said that during the winter months the governing gods at Delphi celebrated Orgiastic rite at the cave with the local women acting as nymphs.
	www.showcaves.com /english/gr/caves/Korykio.html (453 words)

	KORIKIO ANDRO CORYCIAN CAVE
		The ascend to Korikio Andro is easier for a pedestrian - Pausanias goes on to say - than for those using mules and houses.
		The Korikio Andro is famous, not just in myth, but in the world of antiquity and its writers, ‘it is the most remarkable of all the caves I have seen’, Pausanias notes, having visited it in the lst century AD.
		From the same writer I am informed that there was a running water spring insids the cave at the time.
	arachova.tripod.com /korikio_andro_engl_1.htm (532 words)

	The Sacred Cave
		The CAVE is a cavity inside the earth which may be either natural or artificial in origin.
		Famous sacred caves are found in India, at Ajanta, Ellora, and Elephanta which have been embellished with carvings and frescoes.
		Besides naturally occurring caves, artificial caves were dug into mountains as at Abu Simbel in Egypt.
	www.bibliotecapleyades.net /mapas_sagrados/esp_mapassagrados_4.htm (502 words)

	PARNASSUS - LoveToKnow Article on PARNASSUS
		Parnassus was, one of the most holy mountains in Greece, hallowed by the worship of Apollo, of the Muses, and of the Corycian nymphs, and by the orgies of the Bacchantes.
		Two projecting cliffs, named the Phaedriadae, frame the gorge in which the Castalian spring flows out, and just to the west of this, on a shelf above the ravine of the Pleistus, is the site of the Pythian shrine of Apollo and the Deiphic oracle.
		The Corycian cave is on the plateau between Delphi and the summit.;
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PA/PARNASSUS.htm (138 words)

	The Songs of the Oracle - page 2
		As my eyes began to adjust to the reduced light, I could see that behind them in the darkness were whole walls of formations, like Baroque organ pipes that had been grown organicly and then had dark wax dripped on them for centuries, for milleniums, for epochs.
		It was during this improvisational singing that I touched a source in the cave, or it had touched a source in me.
		It was clear that if this had not been the original cave of the oracle, it had been used by many.
	www.dreamgate.com /dream/oracle/oracle03.htm (970 words)

	Corycian Caves / Cennet ve Cehennem, Corycian Caves; Cennet ve Cehennem, Silifke
		A side road from Narlikuyu (3km/2mi) goes up to the two Corycian Caves or in Turkish Cennet ve Cehennem (Heaven and Hell) with a chapel and various ancient remains.
		While the round 120m/393ft Cehennem (Hell) cave 75m/80yds further east is not accessible, steps lead down to the larger Cennet (Heaven) cave which is 100m/325ft wide and 550m/1,800ft long.
		Known as the Typhon Cave (300m/984ft long and 75m/246ft high), the fifth century Chapel of St Mary stands at the edge, guarding the entrance to the underworld where the monster Typhon with a hundred dragon heads and snake feet lived.
	www.planetware.com /turkey/icel/silifke/corycian-caves-cennet-ve-cehennem-tr-ic-slcc.htm (183 words)

	Corycian Cave - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Corycian Cave (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Corycian Cave - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Corycian Cave.
		Here you will find more informations about Corycian Cave.
		* Κορυκιο Αντρον Korykio Andro or Pan's Cave
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Corycian-Cave.html (98 words)

	Activities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Corycian Cave - Spectacular view of the plateau of Livadi: The Gulf of Corinth lies behind the mountains on the right.
		These photos were shot from right outside the Corycian Cave high atop Parnassos, the cave that in ancient times was dedicated to Pan and where women from the surrounding areas would gather every five years, wearing disguises, to dance by torch light through the night.
		Mythology and History of the Oracle in Delphi, the cave where the divinity Gaia (Mother Earth) used to utter prophecies guarded by her son, the serpent Python, dates from the second millennium BC (Mycenaean period).
	www.skamnos.com /activities_en.htm (1776 words)

	Turkey Trip Detail p. 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The legend here is that a king kept his daughter sequestered in the castle because of a prophecy that she would die from the bite of a snake, but despite his precautions an asp was smuggled out to the islet in a bowl of fruit and killed the princes, whose ghost still haunts the site.
		This church was probably built at the mouth of the cave to assure Christians that the Mary had destroyed or put flight the monster that was reputed to have dwelt here in antiquity...
		Arrive a small town of Silifke that is dominated by its kale, the medieval fortress that crowns the acropolis hill.
	www.burlpres.org /Turkey-04-pg2.html (902 words)

	The Songs of the Oracle
		Yet there is no proof of any of this, and though many people have strong opinons, how the priestess connected with the oracle is still being hotly debated.
		The thunder seemed like laughter we had shared with the cave and the rain its weeping the sadness of our leaving.
		One of the stone formations in the Corycian Cave is still called "Pan".
	www.dreamgate.com /dream/oracle/oraclet1.htm (2125 words)

	Corycian Cave -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Corycian Cave -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		The Corycian Cave is located in Mt. (Click link for more info and facts about Parnassos) Parnassos, Greece, named after the ((classical mythology) a minor nature goddess usually depicted as a beautiful maiden) nymph Corycia.
		This cave was sacred to the (In ancient Greek mythology any of 9 daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne; protector of an art or science) Muses.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/co/corycian_cave.htm (68 words)

	EJA Magical Journeys - Greece 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Corycian Cave, dating in use from the Neolithic times, was devoted to Pan and the Nymphs.
		Originally hermits occupied caves at the base of the spires, but in the 1300's AD, entire monasteries were built atop them...
		Eileithyia is a goddess of childbirth, known as the "liberator" of the child from the womb...
	www.ejamagic.com /greece2001.html (1887 words)

	CAVE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Search the CAVE Family Message Boards at Ancestry.com (if available).
		Search the CAVE Family Resource Center at RootsWeb.com (if available).
		Find graves of people named CAVE at Find-a-Grave.com (or add one that you know).
	www.worldhistory.com /surname/US/C/CAVE.htm (73 words)

	Greek Mythology: CORYCIDAE / KORYKIAI Naiad Nymphs of the Corycian Cave of Mt Parnassus in Phocis
		Greek Mythology: CORYCIDAE / KORYKIAI Naiad Nymphs of the Corycian Cave of Mt Parnassus in Phocis
		THE KORYKIAI were NYMPHAI NAIADES of the sacred springs of the Korkykian cave of Mt Parnassos in Phokis.
		Such of the inhabitants as were able to escape the storm were led by the howls of wolves to safety on the top of Parnassos, being led on their way by these beasts, and on this account they called the city that they founded Lykoreia (Mountainwolf-city).
	www.theoi.com /Nymphe/NymphaiKorykiai.html (670 words)

	DELPHI - LoveToKnow Article on DELPHI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Between the two mountains the Pleistus flowed from east to West, and opposite the town received the brooklet of the Castalian fountain, which rose in a deep gorge in the centre of the Parnassian.
		to the north, on the side of Mount Parnassus, was the famous Corycian cave, a large grotto in the limestone rock, which afforded the people of Delphi a refuge during the Persian invasion.
		It is now called in the district the Sarant Aulai or Forty Courts, and is said to be capable of holding 3000 people.
	95.1911encyclopedia.org /D/DE/DELPHI.htm (3297 words)

	Adventure Travel - Greece hiking vacation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		We visit caves, monasteries and ancient ruins, greeted along the way by curious villagers, and by solitary shepherds, nonchalantly tending to their grazing flocks.
		Almost 200 ft. long and 40 ft. high, this huge cavern is believed to have been the scene of orgiastic rites celebrated in ancient times by women acting as the nymphs”; of the god Pan (the presiding deity of Delphi during the winter months when Apollo was said to desert the Oracle).
		Here we visit the caves said to be the largest in Greece, before embarking on the final stage of our journey to the heart of the Zagoria region and our luxurious pension in the village of Monodendri.
	www.goadventureridesinc.com /goadventuretrekking/greecedelphi.php (2134 words)

	Delphic Oracle
		Mount Parnassus rises in a long arc from the Gulf of Corinth above a valley whose sides held the groves, caves, and ravines sacred to the gods of ancient Greece.
		Above and away from the shrine of Delphi is a grove that is difficult to reach, at the end of an ancient cobblestone trail called the Kalki Skala, or "evil stairway." Nearby are two pinnacles from which those convicted of sacrilege against the gods were thrown to their deaths.
		Also in the area is the Corycian Cave, sacred to Pan, and here each November ancient worship rituals involved drinking and sexual orgies took place.
	psychicinvestigator.com /demo/DELPHI.htm (900 words)

	Motherpeace Tarot :: Journeys :: Vicki Noble :: Greece Slideshow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The site is anciently known for a "chasm" out of which vapors rose, which the priestess inhaled in order to become possessed by the divine energies of prophesy and magical incantation.
		Our first group in 1992 entering the famous Cave of the Nymphs above the ruins of Delphi, where we perform sacred rituals to the Earth Goddess in the tradition of the ancient "Maenads," the "madwomen" or ecstatic priestesses of Dionysus.
		Making ritual at the Corycian cave is an expression of "sacred play" in honor of the Earth Mother, as a way of reclaiming our connection to our bodies and the ancient women who came before us.
	www.motherpeace.com /vicki_journeys_slideshow.html (383 words)

	Typhon explained (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Homeric Hymn to Apollo makes the monster Typhaon at Delphi a son of archaic Hera in her Minoan form, produced out of herself, like a monstrous version of Hephaestus, and whelped in a cave in Cilicia and confined there in the land of the Arimi (''Iliad, ii.
		It was not an easy battle: Typhon temporarily overcame Zeus, cut the sinews from him and left him in the "leather sack," the korukos'' that is the etymological origin of the korukion atron, the Korykian or Corycian Cave.
		The inveterate enemy of the Olympian gods is described as a vast grisly monster with a hundred heads and a hundred serpents issuing from his thighs, who was conquered and cast into Tartarus by Zeus.
	www.wordspider.net /ty/typhon.html (474 words)

	Corycian Cave
		A cave on Mount Parnassos named after the nymph Corycia.
		The Muses are sometimes in poetry called Corycides or the Corycian nymphs.
		Article "Corycian Cave" created on 28 March 1999; last modified on 04 April 1999 (Revision 2).
	www.pantheon.org /articles/c/corycian_cave.html (38 words)

	Corycian Cave - TheBestLinks.com - Nymph, TheBestLinks.com:Find or fix a stub, TheBestLinks.com:Perfect stub article, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
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	List of caves (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Mayor's Cave (upanova jama), formerly Tabor Cave (Taborska jama), near Grosuplje
		The Cave of Cross (Krina jama), near Cerknica
		The caves of Kanin in the Julian Alps, including Vrtoglavica, the deepest pitch in the world as of 2005
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/L/List-of-caves.htm (250 words)

	Corycian Cave - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Corycian Cave - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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	Zeus, Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com
		This bizarre behaviour, however, enraged his wife Rhea 1, who being pregnant with Zeus, went to Crete and gave him birth in a cave of Dicte.
		NYMPHS fed the child on the milk of the goat Amalthea while the CURETES in arms guarded the child in the cave, clashing their spears on their shields, in order to prevent Cronos to hear his voice.
		In the meantime, Rhea 1 wrapped a stone in clothes and gave it to Cronos to swallow, as if it were the newborn child.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Zeus.html (3701 words)

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		Hermes received his initiation in the divinatory art of casting lots with dice (probably three of them) in the Corycian cave on the slopes of Mount Parnassus, a site that Fontenrose once thought was the primordial location of the Delphic oracle itself.
		So Hermes' astragaloi may have been one and the same as the original "pebbles" of the Corycian cave, the bones of the demon/god called Typhon, Python, or Dionysos.
		There was another, even older Corycian cave in Asia Minor, one chasm of which was considered an approach to the underworld, p.
	www.csus.edu /indiv/v/vonmeierk/2-05DELP.html (6032 words)

	George Seferis - Delphi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		I chose to walk up to the Corycian Cave from the ancient path; it is too rough for today's habits; the animals slip.
		In the plateau around the cave, the Thyiades and Maenades held their periodic nocturnal orgies-whatever that ecstatic outburst of women possessed by the god means for us today.
		To the right, as you enter the cave, the stone is still preserved with the half-effaced sign to the god Pan and the Nymphs.
	www.myriobiblos.gr /texts/english/seferis_delphi.html (3598 words)

	Further Itinerary in Greece (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		We made a day-trip to visit the Corycian Cave, which Karl scaled from the inside, out.
		Stalactite and Stalagmite formations were evident, and the cave's dampness was likely due to the natural contours of the surrounding rock.
		These monasteries were established after religious men and monks took to hermiting themselves in the small caves within the smooth sides of the cliffs.
	www.wharf.com /ariel/Greece4.htm (436 words)

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