The word Sibyl (in English, ) comes (via Latin) from the Greek word σ?βυλλα sibylla, meaning prophetess. The earliest oracular seeresses known as the sibyls of antiquity, "who admittedly are known only through legend"Burkert 1985 p 117 prophesied at certain holy sites, under the divine influence of a deity, originally? at Delphi and Pessinos? one of the chthonic deities.
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