Delphi
About Delphi
Delphi, in legend previously called Pytho (Ξ Ο ΞΈΟ), was an ancient sacred precinct in central Greece. It was the seat of Pythia, the major oracle who was consulted about important decisions throughout the ancient classical world. The ancient Greeks considered the centre of the world to be in Delphi, marked by the stone monument known as the Omphalos of Delphi. The term omphalos was the Greek word for "navel".
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If you won the games at Delphi, you got Laurel; obviously at the Olympics, you got Olive. At the Isthmian games, you got Pine. At the Nemean games, it was Celery, which I find very pleasing.
from No Such Thing As The Kevin Olympics, 2014-11-28 at 00:25:11 Β· read transcript
Other times Delphi came up
Members of the public would just send in their questions, and everyone on staff would write answers to. That is sort of like the modern version of the Agony Art. There's probably examples of things like the Oracle of Delphi and, you know, the original Agni Arts. He, this Athenian Gazette, Athenian Mercury, it was also called. It was supposedly this group of a dozen of the best astrologers and mathematicians and philosophers in the whole of London, right? and scholars and all this.
No Such Thing As A Vampire From Devon, 2022-06-17 Β· listen
Fire, he would start to divide the future, say what's going to happen, say what the leaders should do, and a chronicler called Pedro Chiesa de Leon said that they did it by ventriloquism. Hmm. It sounds like a good act. There was a rumour about the oracle at Delphi being a ventriloquist thing behind it, but also that there's sometimes a sort of tube or a tunnel leading back from the mouth that somebody is speaking into, like one of those things in the.
No Such Thing As A Shakespeare Burger, 2026-03-19 Β· listen
Yeah. It's making you think that the voice is coming from somewhere else. Exactly. Ventriloquist being a stomach speaking. Yes, so the oracle at Delphi, the story was put about that it felt like the voice was coming from either her stomach or sometimes from her genitals, although those stories might have been written by Christians later who were trying to... Perverts. Right. Not always different things.
No Such Thing As A Shakespeare Burger, 2026-03-19 Β· listen
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