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	Sibyl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		Pausanias claimed that the Sibyl was "born between man and goddess, daughter of sea monsters and an immortal nymph".
		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.
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	Sibyl -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The word sibyl comes (via (Any dialect of the language of ancient Rome) Latin) from the (The Greek language prior to the Roman Empire) ancient Greek word sibylla, meaning (Someone who speaks by divine inspiration; someone who is an interpreter of the will of God) prophetess.
		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 (A military dictatorship in northern Africa on the Mediterranean; consists almost entirely of desert; a major exporter of petroleum; involved in state-sponsored terrorism) Libya.
		Christians were especially impressed with the Cumaean Sibyl too, for in Vergil's Fourth (A short descriptive poem of rural or pastoral life) Eclogue she foretells the coming of a savior, a flattering reference to the poet's patron, whom Christians identified as Jesus.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/si/sibyl.htm (1512 words)

	SIBYLS
		Sibyl: "Satan shall be overcome by a true prophet." Emblem, a dragon under the Sibyl's feet, and a lantern.
		(8) The Delphic Sibyl: "The Prophet born of the virgin shall be crowned with thorns." Emblem, a crown of thorns.
		The Cumaean sibyl was the conductor of Virgil to the infernal regions.
	www.websters-online-dictionary.org /Si/Sibyls.html (727 words)

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		According to Lactantius' Divine Institutions (quoting from a lost work of Varro) these ten were the Babylonian or Persian Sibyl, the Libyan, the Cimmerian, the Sibyl of Delphi, the Erythraean, the Samian, the Cumaean, the Hellespontine, the Phrygian and the Tiburtine.
		The three most famous sibyls were the Delphic, the Erythraean and the Cumaean.
		The Erythraean Sibyl was located on the coast of Ionia opposite the island of Chios.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Sibyl.html (993 words)

	SIBYLS I (Sibyllae) - Online Information article about SIBYLS I (Sibyllae)
		SIBYLS I (Sibyllae), the name given by the Greeks and Romans to certain women who prophesied under the inspiration of a deity.
		The Sibyl of whom we hear most is the Erythraean, generally identified with the Cumaean, whom Aeneas consulted before his descent to the lower world (Aeneid, vi.
		Ida in the Troad; it was attributed to the Hellespontine Sibyl and was preserved in the temple of Apollo at Gergis.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /SHA_SIV/SIBYLS_I_Sibyllae_.html (731 words)

	Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Sibyls.
		(7) The Tiburtine Sibyl: “The Highest shall descend from heaven, and a virgin be shown in the valleys of the deserts.” Emblem, a dove.
		(8) The Delphic Sibyl: The Prophet born of the virgin shall be crowned with thorns.” Emblem, a crown of thorns.
		The Cumæan sibyl was the conductor of Virgil to the infernal regions.
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	SIBYL FACTS AND INFORMATION
		Like Heraclitus, Plato only speaks of one Sibyl, but in course of time the number increased to nine, with a tenth, the Tiburtine_Sibyl, probably Etruscan in origin, added by the Romans.
		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.
		The sibyl who most concerned the Romans was the Cumaean_Sibyl near the Greek city of Naples, whom Aeneas consulted before his descent to the lower world (''Aeneid'' book VI: 10).
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		Pausanias claimed that the Sibyl was "born between man and goddess, daughter ofsea monsters and an immortal nymph".
		Others said she was sister or daughter to Apollo.Still others claimed the Sibyl received her powers from Gaia originally, who passed the oracle to Thetis, who passed it to Phoebe.
		The Sibyl who most concerned the Romans was the CumaeanSibyl near the Greek city of Naples, whom Aeneas consulted before his descent to the lower world (Aeneidbook VI: 10).
	www.therfcc.org /sibyl-84287.html (907 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.
		According to Lactantius' Divine Institutions (i.6, 4th century AD, quoting from a lost work of Varro, 1st century BC) these ten were the Persian Sibyl, the Libyan Sibyl, the Delphic Sibyl, the Cimmerian Sibyl, the Erythraean Sibyl, the Samian Sibyl, the Cumaean Sibyl, the Hellespontine Sibyl, the Phrygian Sibyl and the Tiburtine Sibyl.
		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).
	www.sciencefictionbuzz.com /pythia.html (816 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Sibylline Books
		The Sibylline Books or Sibyllae were a collection of oracular utterances, set out in Greek hexameters, purchased from a sibyl by the semi-legendary last king of Rome, Tarquinius Superbus, and consulted at momentous crises through the history of the Republic and the Empire.
		The oldest collection of Sibylline oracles appears to have been made about the time of Solon and Cyrus at Gergis on Mount Ida in the Troad; it was attributed to the Hellespontine Sibyl and was preserved in the temple of Apollo at Gergis.
		The Cumaean Sibyl offered to Tarquin nine books of these prophecies; and as the king declined to purchase them, owing to the exorbitant price she demanded, she burned three and offered the remaining six to Tarquin at the same stiff price, which he again refused, whereupon she burned three more and repeated her offer.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Sibylline_books (986 words)

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		After the Trojan War, the only surviving son of Priam, Helenus, retired to Mount Ida, where he was surprised and became the captive of Pyrrhus of Epirus.
		The oldest collection of Sibylline utterances, the Sibylline books, appears to have been made about the time of Cyrus at Gergis on Mount Ida; it was attributed to the Hellespontine Sibyl and was preserved in the temple of Apollo at Gergis.
		From Gergis the collection passed to Erythrae, where it became famous as the oracles of the Erythraean Sibyl.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /mount_ida.html (809 words)

	SIBYLLINE ORACLES--appendix with early Christian commentary
		The eighth was the Hellespontine, born in the
		Those of the Cumæan Sibyl, however, were hidden and not made known to many, because she proclaimed more especially and distinctly things that were to happen in Italy, while the others became known to all.
		The eighth Sibyl was the Hellespontine, born in the Trojan country, in the village of Marpessus, near the town of Gergitha.
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	About the god Apollon
		The oldest form of the tale seems to be simply, that there was a woman named Sibylla, a native of the village of Marpessos in the territory of Troy, although the more important town of Erythrai tried to claim her as its own, and there was much controversy on the subject in antiquity.
		To this must be added the Jewish or Babylonian Sibyl usually identified with the Marpessian- rythraian, who is in some ways the most famous of all, since the collection of Sibylline oracles which we have---obviously late forgeries, containing Jewish and Christian propaganda disguised as ancient revelations---are in her name.
		The rather late story of Apollo and the Cumaean Sibyl appears to be partly modelled on the legend of Kassandra.
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	Sibylline Books -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The story of the acquisition of the Sibylline Books by the semi-legendary last king of Rome, (According to legend, the seventh and last Etruscan king of Rome who was expelled for his cruelty (reigned from 534 to 510 BC)) Tarquinius Superbus, is one of the famous mythic elements of Roman history.
		those of the Sibyl at (A town twenty miles east of Rome (Tibur is the ancient name); a summer resort during the Roman empire; noted for its waterfalls) Tibur, (the ' (Click link for more info and facts about Tiburtine Sibyl) Tiburtine Sibyl') of the brothers Marcius, and others.
		From the Capitol they were transferred by Augustus as pontifex maximus, in 12 BC, to the temple of Apollo Patrous on the Palatine, after they had been examined and copied; there they remained until about AD (Click link for more info and facts about 405) 405.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/S/Si/Sibylline_Books.htm (794 words)

	Sibyl Article, Sibyl Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		She sang herpredictions, which she received from Gaia, in an ecstaticswoon; her utterings were interpreted by attendant priests during classical times, and rendered into hexameters of notoriouslydifficult interpretation.
		Pausanias claimed thatthe Sibyl was "born between man and goddess, daughter of sea monsters and an immortal nymph".
		Still others claimed the Sibyl received her powers from Gaiaoriginally, who passed the oracle to Themis, who passed it to Phoebe.
	www.anoca.org /gergis/pythia/sibyl.html (952 words)

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		The Erythraean Sibyl, whose name was Herophile, corresponds to the Boeotian Bakis as the person usually meant when a Sibyl is mentioned; but in an Italian or Roman context it is the Cumaean Sibyl that is commonly meant.
		Despite this account of the merest sere and withered wisps of the Cumaean Sibyl's physical, enurned remains, Michelangelo Buonarroti nevertheless portrayed her in the architectural framework of the Sistine Ceiling with huge, hulking shoulders that would, today, be worthy of a first-round draft pick for the National Football League.
		Michelangelo decided to include the Cumaean Sibyl, together with four of her sisters and five Old Testament Prophets, in his grand scheme for the Sistine Ceiling (on which he worked from 1508 to 1512) in place of the Twelve Apostles--which would have been appropriate had he painted histories of the Life of Christ.
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	Carmen
		Later on the number of sibyls were increased to ten, including the Samian, the Trojan, the Phrygian, the Cimmerian, the Delphian, the Cumaean, the Libyan, the Tiburtine, and the Babylonian.
		Despite these records, and despite this long tradition of sanctity, the Cumaean Sibyls were considered fantasy until archaeologists proved their actual existence by discovering sticks and stones, tunnels and slabs of quarried rock, and the cave in which each Sibyl had lived at Cumae.
		One of the Cumaean Sibyl's peculiarities, moreover, was that when consulted she would write her predictions on oak leaves and lay them at the edge of her cave, from which they were blown hither and yon by the wind and often confusedly mixed up, making them all but unintelligible to their readers.
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		The sibyls lived in caves or near streams and prophesied in a frenzied trance, usually in Greek hexameters, which were handed down in writing.
		In later legends, the number of sibyls was increased to ten, including the Samian, the Trojan or Hellespontine, the Phrygian, the Cimmerian, the Delphian, the Cumaean, the Libyan, the Tiburtine, and the Babylonian or Persian sibyls.
		Apollo had promised to grant her anything she wished, and she asked to live for as many years as there were grains of sand in her hand.
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		The Delphic Sibyl: “The Prophet born of the virgin shall be crowned with thorns.” Emblem, a crown of thorns.
		Sibylline Books The three surviving books of the Sibyl Amalthaea were preserved in a stone chest underground in the temple of Jupiter Capitolinus, and committed to the charge of custodians chosen in the same manner as the high priests.
		The worship and the legend of the Cumaean Sibyl - immortalized by Virgil - remain the basic elements to understand the importance that in the Phlegraean area had the spreading of the religious creed and of all beliefs, rites and traditions which Virgil wonderfully expresses in his verses.
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	Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, page 583 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The most famous was the Erythraean Sibyl, Hero-phlle, who is usually considered identical with the Cumaian, as she is represented as journeying by manifold wanderings from her home to Cumse.
		Here she is said to have lived for many generations in the crypts beneath the temple of Apollo, where she had even prophesied to JSneas.
		In later times the designation of Sibyl was also given to the prophetic Nymph Albunfa near Tibur [Lactantius, i 6 § 12].
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	Chapter Shot Window <i>to</i> Sibylline Leaves of S by Brewer's Phrase & Fable
		(4) The Cumæan Sibyl: “God shall be born of a pure virgin, and hold converse with sinners.” Emblem, a cradle.
		(7) The Tiburtine Sibyl: “The Highest shall descend from heaven, and a virgin be shown in the valleys of the deserts.” Emblem, a dove.
		(8) The Delphic Sibyl: The Prophet born of the virgin shall be crowned with thorns.” Emblem, a crown of thorns.
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		After the Trojan War, the only surviving son of Priam, Helenus, retired to MountIda, where he was surprised and became the captive of Pyrrhus ofEpirus.
		The oldest collection of Sibylline utterances, the Sibyllinebooks, appears to have been made about the time of Cyrus at Gergis on Mount Ida; it was attributed to the Hellespontine Sibyl and was preserved in the temple of Apollo at Gergis.
		From Gergis the collectionpassed to Erythrae, where it became famous as the oracles of the Erythraean Sibyl.
	www.therfcc.org /mount-ida-210037.html (736 words)

	Hierarch Benefactors Oracle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In Greece, the temple of Apollo at Delphi was the site of the sibyl or pythia oracle who was consulted by Greeks before beginning any important activity, endeavor, or enterprise.
		Although Plato only mentions one sibyl, by the middle ages ten different oracles were mentioned including the Cimmerian, Cumaean, Delphic, Erythraean.
		The Sibyls were portrayed on the pavement of the Siena Cathedral.
	www.blessingscornucopia.com /Life_Spiral_Oracles_Hierarch_Benefactors_Oracle.htm (1058 words)

	Erythrae (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		As to the number and native countries of the Sibyls much diversity of opinion prevailed.
		he Sibyl of whom we hear most is the Erythraean, generally identified with the Cumaean, whom Aeneas consulted before his descent to the lower world (Aeneid 6.10); it was she who sold to Tarquin the Proud (534—510 BCE) the Sibylline books.
		A building claimed to be her Sanctuary was discovered at Ildiri, a structure resembling a Nymphaeum with a number of inscriptions, one of which records the Erythraean origin of Herophile.
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	Sibyl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Noun sibyl A woman supposed to be endowed with a spirit of prophecy.
		The word Sibyl comes (via Latin) from the ancient Greek word sibylla,...
		----- When Sibyl is taken for a woman's name, it is commonly spelled Sybil.
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		Croesus supposed that the oracle meant that he would overthrow the enemy’s empire, but it was his own that he had destroyed.
		Classical legend reveals that there were prophetesses called sibyls, who were supposed to make prophesies under the inspiration of a diety.
		In ancient times, there were a number of sibyls and they had their seats in widely separate parts of the world.
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	Sibyl
		The sibyl, who was born near there, at Marpessus, and whose tomb was later marked by the temple of Apollo built upon the archaic site, appears on the coins of Gergis, ca 400-–350 BC.
		Series of twelve etchings of Sibyls (http://inquiry.uiuc.edu/cil/edit_list.php?cilid=426andlistid=941): by Master IHS, 1572
		Pjetër Bogdani, "The Songs of the Ten Sibyls" (http://www.albanianliterature.com/html/authors/poetry/bogdani.html) modern poetry, translated from Albanian
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