Persian Sibyl
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The Persian Sibyl – also known as the Babylonian, Chaldaean, Hebrew or Egyptian Sibyl – was the prophetic priestess presiding over the Apollonian oracle.
The word
The Persian Sibyl has had at least three names: Sambethe, Helrea[2] and Sabbe.[3]
Sambethe was said to be of the family of Noah.[4] The Persian Sibyl by Guercino hangs in the Capitoline Museum in Rome.
Pausanias, pausing at Delphi to enumerate four sibyls, mentions a "Hebrew sibyl":
there grew up among the Hebrews above Palestine, a woman who gave oracles named Sabbe, whose father was Berosus and her mother Erymanthe. Some say she was a Babylonian, while others call her an Egyptian Sibyl.[5][6][7]
The medieval Byzantine encyclopedia, the
See also
- Sibylline oracles
- Wives aboard the Ark
References
- ^ "ANCIENT SACRED WORKS OF THE HEBREWS – SIBYLLINE ORACLES-appendix with early Christian commentary". Skeptically.org. Retrieved 2013-06-26.
- ISBN 9781417949915. Retrieved 2013-06-26.
- ISBN 9780391041103. Retrieved 2013-06-26.
- ISBN 9783161485558. Retrieved 2013-06-26.
- ^ Pausanias, x.12
- ISBN 9780415003438. Retrieved 2013-06-26.
- ISBN 9780391041103. Retrieved 2013-06-26.
External links
- Media related to Sibyl of Persia at Wikimedia Commons