...This was enough: popular imaginationhas done the rest; so that since the period of classical antiquity thebushes have been peopled with priestesses emitting oracles and nuns inprayer... 
J. H. Fabre Bernard Miall 「Social Life in the Insect World」
...In this respect there was a strikingresemblance between the rude oracles of the Polynesians, and thoseof the celebrated nations of ancient Greece...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...The god Enki issued oracles, and the god Nindub, the supreme priest of Eridu, brought incense...
L.W. King and H.R. Hall 「History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, And Assyria In The Light Of Recent Discovery」
...But Greek religionin its temples, its oracles, its games, and its councils,provided more tangible bonds of union than those of sentiment...
Marcius Willson 「Mosaics of Grecian History」
...Here the Sibyldelivered her oracles, we were told by those who had received themfrom their ancestors, and who kept them even as their patrimony...
Hugh Macmillan 「Roman Mosaics」
...The Sibylline oracles may therefore be said to haveformed their sacred scriptures, and to have served the purpose of acommon religious creed in securing national unity...
Hugh Macmillan 「Roman Mosaics」
...Even the oracles of the pagan Sibyl were regarded byChristian writers with an awe and reverence little short of that whichthey inspired in the minds of the heathen themselves...
Hugh Macmillan 「Roman Mosaics」
...Shelived in a great cavern, where the people came to consult her, and heranswers to their questions were regarded as oracles, or answers fromthe deities...
Estelle M. Hurll 「Michelangelo」
...He hadbeen consulting the oracles at Sparta, andHerodotus states that “while he was offeringsacrifice to know if he should march outagainst the Persian, the Sun was suddenlydarkened in mid-sky...
George Chambers 「The Story of Eclipses」
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