It is his job to train the new priestess, the Pythia, who in her trances will give voice to the oracles. |
Every oracular site was the spokesman of a different God who expressed him or herself through the priestesses of Pythia. |
Having thrown water on the goat, and seen it shudder, the friend stood before the Pythia and asked whether anyone were wiser than Socrates. |
The Pythia were priestesses of Apollo who would sit in a tripod or throne over a crevice in the earth. |
Pythia will be there, I've heard she's on super form and there'll be lots of divinations to be won. |
The god's medium was the Pythia, a local woman over 50 years old, who, under his inspiration, delivered oracles in the main temple of Apollo. |