RT Article
T1 The Coming of the Pythia
JF Harvard theological review
VO 33
IS 1
SP 9
OP 18
A1 Latte, Kurt 1891-1964
LA English
YR 1940
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1784640662
AB The commonly accepted idea of the evolution of the Delphian mantic may be outlined thus: There was first an oracle of the Mother Earth, working by incubation (cf. p. 16, later). Later on, Apollo took possession of it, but its character remained unchanged: the believers continued to receive revelation in dreams. Afterwards Dionysos went to Delphi and with him ecstasy entered into the cult. It was not until then that oracles were given by an inspired, i.e. ecstatic, priestess called Pythia.
DO 10.1017/S0017816000018642