Sibyl

Sibyl adalah wanita yang bangsa Yunani kuno percayai sebagai orakel. Menurut legenda,^[1] sibyl-sibyl awal dinabikan di tempat-tempat suci. Nubuat-nubuat mereka dipengaruhi oleh inspirasi ilahi dari seorang dewa; berawal di Delphi dan Pessinos, dewa-dewa tersebut adalah dewa khthonik. Pada Abad Kuno AKhir, berbagai penulis berupaya untuk membuktikan keberadaan sibyl di Yunani, Italia, Syam, dan Asia Kecil.

Kata sibyl (/ˈsɪbəl/ atau /ˈsɪbɪl/) datang — melalui kata bahasa Prancis Lama sibile dan kata bahasa Latin sibylla — dari kata bahasa Yunani kuno σίβυλλα (sibulla, plural σίβυλλαι sibullai).^[2]

Catatan

Sumber

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• West, Martin Litchfield, The Orphic Poems, Oxford, 1983.

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