#Oracle at Delphi

[o1iveangel]

dionysus and apollo!

i call this mythology studying

close ups under the cut 🫶

[hecatesdelights]

The Oracle at Delphi

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

Charlotte's Art History Tarot - Card 2 - The High Priestess

Art: Priestess of Delphi – John Collier

interpret this card

[bethanythebogwitch]

Greek hero: I beseech thee, oh Oracle, tell me of my fate!

The Oracle at Delphi:

[geekysteven]

The Oracle of Delphi fired me because I kept following up her predictions with "ya got foretold!"

[twicedailyquotes]

Tell the king; the fair wrought house has fallen... No shelter has Apollo, nor sacred laurel leaves... The fountains are now silent; the voice is stilled... It is finished.

Ruby Osman The Last Pythia

[girlwithlandscape]

Delphi, 1894

[wyrm-of-wood]

“Your crops will fail this year if you don’t sacrifice 2 goats to the Gods!”

Said while seeing the rainbow and about to pass out from lack of oxygen.

Girl Behavior! <3

[caffeineheroes]

Apollo speaking through the Oracle of Delphi before having to come down himself:

So in the context of Greek mythology the tripod is a special three legged stool that the oracle of Delphi sat on when she gave her prophecies. The stool itself was sacred. Very important.

And. There’s a myth where Heracles goes to the oracle of Delphi to ask a question of how to atone for something he did and the Oracle is like “I dunno dude figure it out yourself” and Heracles is so mad about this that he steals the tripod and Apollo himself is like “NO NOT MY TRIPOD” and comes down to snatch it back from him.

Now this is one of those myths that isn’t sourced in a lot of places. Pretty much only The Library by pseudo-Apollodorus I think? But we know it was a very popular and well known myth because artists really really liked painting and sculpting it

Look at him he’s like bro give it back seriously that’s my chair what do you think you’re doing

[jbfly46]

The most trusted advisors of a nation laid around in temples of some sort, eating, drinking, getting high, and fucking all day, because if that's not enough motivation for you, then you have selfish ulterior motives, and you're not giving advice, you're manipulating people.

[bravenewolympus--hq]

𝒑𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒂, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒍𝒆 𝒂𝒕 𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒑𝒉𝒊. this character is neutral. suggested faces — please note, this character must be 25+ years old. michelle dockery; phoebe waller-bridge; ruth negga; candice patton; heather hemmens; deborah ann woll. suggested occupations. employee or owner of the delphi media group, owners of the city's newspaper and a number of local tv and radio stations; 911 dispatch; working in intelligence/police work; journalist, reporter, or editor of the local newspaper; hacker and tech support for the fix-it style law firm run by midas and eris (altin associates at law).

𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒌𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒐𝒏 𝒊𝒔 𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒏.

ʙʀᴀᴠᴇ ɴᴇᴡ ᴏʟʏᴍᴘᴜꜱ : ᴀ 21+ ᴍᴏᴅᴇʀɴ ɢʀᴇᴇᴋ ᴍʏᴛʜᴏʟᴏɢʏ ᴅɪꜱᴄᴏʀᴅ ʀᴏʟᴇᴘʟᴀʏ. athens, new york: an island city, all trees and marble, glass and steel and highrises set against an ocean skyline. bustling and loud, crowded, but not without a bizarre sense that it must have sprung up overnight, somehow, when surely it must have always been here, no? on a clear night, you might even be able to see the lights of its more famous cousin, new york city, across the water…if you squint hard enough. it may not get as much attention as the shiny apple across the hudson, but those not so blinded by the lights must certainly have been coming here for years. is there something in the water here, too? no one leaves, not in any meaningful way anyway. feels like it has a special way of pulling you back in, if you try. they, that is anyone who was anyone or paid even an iota of attention to the evening news, called him the minotaur. the media does love a catchy nom de guerre, doesn’t it? sells newspapers like hotcakes in the morning. ambrosia, whether it’s the latest designer drug trend or the latest pestilence sweeping the streets of athens, just depends on how tightly you clutch your pearls on sundays. must infuriate the police, don’t it? that without fail, by the time they arrive to any crime scene at all, all that’s left is the heap of little cream-coloured business cards, the red lines of a labyrinthine logo more taunting than they are helpful. between an epidemic of pearlescent powder, neatly parceled out in small plastic baggies, a tide of crimson bull graffiti, casinos and bordellos and the nightlife (oh my!), it’s no small wonder they call this an atlantic sin city. it’s a vice eat dog world, ain’t it? and anyone who calls athens home is just living in it. powerless, with no memory of their past lives, what's a god gotta do to survive?

[hecatesdelights]

Look at this... 👀

Look at this... 👀 https://pin.it/1zmXlNv

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

Charlotte's Art History Tarot - Card 2 - The High Priestess

Art: Priestess of Delphi – John Collier

pull this card

the high priestess!! this is the card from the traditional tarot deck with which I identify most 💙. this card is about stillness and reflection - a retreat in which you can use your intuition to uncover secrets and be open to new knowledge. there is a spiritual element to this card, as suggested by the title "priestess," although it doesn't have to be aligned with any specific religion. I've always seen the high priestess as a figure who is open to receiving divine wisdom, or knowledge from hidden places - in tune with something just a bit supernatural, or beyond common understanding. (there's also some weird gendered stuff traditionally associated with this card but as a non-binary person I just kinda cast that to the aside lmao). for me, the Priestess of Delphi was an obvious choice for this card, since the oracle at Delphi was historically believed to receive messages from the gods and deliver prophecies to those who came to inquire about their fate. it is now believed that the place where the oracle sat may have emitted fumes (represented by the smoke/mist in the painting) that caused hallucinations. either way, the oracle at Delphi was a solitary figure who looked inside themselves to discover knowledge from uncommon sources. in this painting, the sense of stillness and calm, yet intense concentration and contemplation, along with the shadowy, obscured background perfectly captures the otherworldly power of the high priestess.

[rosered2018]

This is absolutely gorgeous.

Mechtober Day 31: Free Space

Beloved Drumbot Brian as the Oracle at Delphi

Thank you all for all the love this Mechtober! I love this community so much, I’m so glad to be a part of it. See y’all next year!!!

[geekysteven]

[cynicalcharon]

Ok, now i really have a crush

her name's cliadne, but she insists i call her 'the pythia'

anyway, she predicted she was 'going to be single forever more' but that i 'would find someone soon'