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  • Thumbnail for Sibyl's Cave
    Sibyl's Cave (Italian: Grotta della Sibilla) is a cave, located at 2,150 m above sea level, carved into the rock, near the summit of Sibillini Mountains...
    16 KB (1,860 words) - 01:01, 4 April 2024
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    meaning prophetess. There were many sibyls throughout the ancient world. Because of the importance of the Cumaean Sibyl in the legends of early Rome as codified...
    16 KB (2,049 words) - 01:47, 23 June 2024
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    prophetess. There were many Sibyls in the ancient world but she is the one who prophesied the Birth of Jesus in the stable. The Samian Sibyl, by name Phemonoe,...
    3 KB (259 words) - 09:58, 27 September 2021
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    The name Sibylline goes back to a legend about a cave in the mountains (today known as the Sibyl cave), where a male oracle and necromancer took refuge...
    2 KB (261 words) - 19:48, 12 March 2024
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    Monte Vettore (redirect from Apennine Sibyl)
    local medieval tradition was that the Apennine Sibyl, a mysterious prophetess not counted among the Sibyls of Classical Antiquity, was condemned by God...
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    Maiuri and Vittorio Spinazzola investigated the Temple of Jupiter, the Cave of the Sibyl and the Crypta Romana, while between 1938 and 1953 the lower city...
    25 KB (3,152 words) - 02:59, 22 August 2024
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    The following article shows a list of caves in Italy. Main concentration of Italian caves (Italian: grotte, singular: grotta) is close to the Alps and...
    16 KB (206 words) - 07:44, 24 May 2024
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    including the medical information, was updated and reissued in 2018. Slip-Shod Sibyls: Recognition, Rejection and the Woman Poet (1995) is an account of women...
    134 KB (15,599 words) - 05:12, 23 August 2024
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    sister. Other early sources[which?] similarly name one of the Sibyls as Sabba (see Sibyl in Jewish Encyclopedia). A kabalistic work that appeared in 1670...
    17 KB (2,097 words) - 14:52, 27 August 2024
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    The story of his adventures on this trip and of the local legends and Sibyl's Cave near Montemonaco form a chapter of La Salade, which also has a map of...
    9 KB (1,320 words) - 17:07, 18 July 2024
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    Golden Bough (mythology) (category Sibyls)
    also obtain the bough of gold which grows nearby in the woods around her cave, which must be given as a gift to Proserpina, the queen of Pluto, king of...
    5 KB (631 words) - 15:39, 20 July 2024
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    collection of oracular utterances written in Greek hexameters, ascribed to the Sibyls, prophetesses who uttered divine revelations in frenzied states. Walter...
    31 KB (3,728 words) - 06:34, 9 August 2024
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    gave her birthplace as Knaresborough, Yorkshire, in a cave now known as Mother Shipton's Cave. The book reputed Shipton to be hideously ugly, and that...
    24 KB (3,203 words) - 21:49, 31 July 2024
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    of Vesuvius, such as Herculaneum. He discovered the Cave of the Cumaean Sibyl in May 1932. The Cave is a trapezoidal dromos or passage over 131 meters...
    3 KB (393 words) - 20:46, 12 December 2023
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    etc. An entire chapter, Book V, in which the Apennine Sibyl describes the other classical Sibyls, was completely suppressed. Astronomical references were...
    10 KB (1,363 words) - 11:18, 21 August 2024
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    centuries A.D. in the Mogao Caves (Caves 327 and 465) and Yulin Caves in Dunhuang, China, and the Kizil Caves and Bezeklik Caves (cave 438) in Xinjiang, China...
    80 KB (8,373 words) - 01:18, 16 August 2024
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    and other places which infect the air with poisonous steams or vapors. The Cave of Dogs in Italy was a famous example. The most celebrated of these, however...
    4 KB (472 words) - 22:28, 18 August 2024
  • Australian/Vogel Literary Award Sarah Hay Skins Allen & Unwin Catherine Padmore Sibyl's Cave Allen & Unwin Miles Franklin Award Frank Moorhouse Dark Palace Knopf...
    24 KB (1,165 words) - 06:03, 1 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Creation of Adam
    (Joël, Ezekiel, Jonah, Daniel, Jeremiah, Zechariah, and Isaiah) and five Sibyls (Erythraean, Delphic, Libyan, Cumaean, and Persian),: plates 127–144  prophetic...
    32 KB (3,176 words) - 07:30, 27 August 2024
  • agent's body and car and, while doing this, find a map which leads them to a cave where they find a dead woman and a list of names. The list reveals that Juliana's...
    120 KB (5,146 words) - 03:21, 25 August 2024
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