![]() ![]() As a result, modern classical scholars and many archaeologists reject the ancient testimonies concerning the mantic sessions and their geological origin. French archaeologists who excavated the oracle site at the turn of the century reported no evidence of either fissures or gaseous emissions and concluded that the ancient accounts were myths. Here she inhaled a vapour rising from the cleft, and became inspired with the power of prophecy. ![]() ![]() The latter were interpreted as events in which the Pythia (priestess) placed herself on a tripod over a cleft (fissure) in the ground below the Apollo temple. Ancient authors from Plato to Pausanias have left descriptions of Delphi’s oracle and its mantic sessions.
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