Even in ancient times, oracles were revered more than priests, since with their help the gods could communicate with people, and through the priest - only humanity with the gods. Even now there is an oracle - which supposedly communicates with God and conveys his instructions to people. Of course, all people who perceive too harshly will not believe in such abilities, nevertheless, it is believed that clairvoyants, psychics and healers exist, and they learn about their gift in one way or another. However, this strange and even scary word “oracle”, when pronounced in the head an association arises with something big, powerful and knowledgeable, can now name harmless or almost harmless things.
Oracles in Ancient Greece
This is perhaps the most developed civilization in this regard; here oracles were mentioned in myths, legends were made about them, and they were worshiped.
People from all over the planet came to the soothsayers and listened to the speeches of the gods. It was the most famous and, as it was believed, effective for good reason. The fact is that, as people believed, it was the center of the Earth only because there the god of prophecy Apollo himself placed a stone on the grave of the defeated Python. For ancient people An oracle is a place where divine energy accumulates.
An oracle in modern times is...
Actually in modern world magic oracle is a certain magic item, most often cards. The connection between the soothsayer and the cards is clear, because with the help of them, modern clairvoyants and psychics find out the fate of a particular person and give answers to questions. There is the Druid Oracle, the Wiccan and Vampire Doctor John Dee, etc. In some way, books can also act as soothsayers, for example, the Book of Fates, which knows the answers to all questions.
Astrological oracles: cards and people
A star oracle is a certain system of special Tarot cards that combine ordinary fortune telling on maps and astrological forecasts. In principle, this is the same as horoscopes, which are created through maps and stars. A clairvoyant must be able to have knowledge about the stars, their locations, zodiac signs, maps, etc.
Only with the correct use of this technique will a true prediction be obtained. The star oracle is based on a special rule called the “Three Pillars”, that is, the zodiac sign, planet, sign manager, and the house of the horoscope.
An astrological oracle is not only an object, but also a person who declares that he is not a person at all, but a being who knows the answers to all questions and warns that sometimes the answers may not be entirely clear and detailed, since not every question has an answer and not every answer can be attributed to any question.
ORACLE, -a, m.
1. IN ancient world and among the peoples of the Ancient East: a priest, a diviner of the will of the deity, who gave answers to any questions in an indisputable form.
2. trans.
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ORACLE
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a) Divination, supposedly emanating from a deity and declared by a priest (among the ancient Greeks, Romans and peoples of the ancient East).
b) A place, a temple, where people turned for divination.
a) The name of the fortune-telling book.
2. ́kulb) The subject on which they tell fortunes.
1) Divination deity; a priest who gives answers, prophecies supposedly coming from a deity.
+ S.I. Ozhegov, N.Yu. Shvedova Explanatory dictionary of the Russian language 2) A person whose all judgments are recognized by others as an immutable truth, a revelation.
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- Modern explanatory dictionary ed. "Great Soviet Encyclopedia"
ORACLE
+ S.I. Ozhegov, N.Yu. Shvedova Explanatory dictionary of the Russian language(Latin oraculum, from oro - I say, I ask), among the ancient Greeks, Romans and peoples of the East, a prediction was conveyed by priests on behalf of the deity to inquiring believers, as well as the place where the prediction was announced. In a figurative sense, a person whose all judgments are recognized as an immutable truth, a revelation. - Dictionary
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ORACLE
- Small Academic Dictionary of the Russian Language A,
1. IN m.:
ancient world
a place, a temple, where priests divined in the name of a deity, and also a divinatory deity.
Delphic Oracle. Alexander went to the oracle and the temple of Sivakh.
2. Bunin, Alexander in Egypt. trans.
Book
A person whose judgments are recognized as an immutable truth, a revelation.- It's hard to be a judge in someone else's case ---. If possible, free me from the difficult role of the oracle and decide the matter yourself.
3. Chernyshevsky, Theory and practice.
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A “New Complete Oracle ---” appeared in the house. And Nastasya Petrovna put on glasses in the evenings, rolled a ball out of wax and began throwing it at the oracle circles. Bunin, Village.
(Lat. oraculum)
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ORACLE
- Modern explanatory dictionary ed. "Great Soviet Encyclopedia"
(Latin oraculum, from orare - to speak, to ask). 1) soothsayer; a mysterious saying, irrefutably stated. 2) sayings of the gods. 3) a person who pronounces something, like an oracle, whose words are given special faith.
(Source: “Dictionary of foreign words included in the Russian language.” Chudinov A.N., 1910)
- Modern explanatory dictionary ed. "Great Soviet Encyclopedia"
lat. oraculum, from orare, to speak, to ask. a) Soothsayer; foreshadowing. b) A person whose opinions are given special credence. c) Mysterious saying.
This word, meaning “a person who speaks truths,” was borrowed from Latin, where oraculum is derived from the verb orage - “to speak, to pray.” Etymological dictionary Krylova
It consisted in the fact that a prediction on behalf of a deity, at the request of believers, was announced by a special priest, who was called an oracle. In a broader sense, the oracle was understood both as a soothsayer - the place where the prediction was announced, and the text of the prediction itself. IN modern language An oracle is understood as a predictor of the future, as well as a person whose all judgments are recognized as an immutable truth, a revelation.
Origin
Like other oracles, the Pythia gave predictions on strictly defined days - only on the seventh day of the month, moreover, the sanctuary was closed for the winter. To ensure the favor of the Pythia, inquirers were required to make abundant sacrifices at Delphi. Simpler people therefore turned not to the Pythia, but to wandering soothsayers. The Delphic oracle was closed in 393 by order of the Christian emperor Theodosius the Great as a stronghold of paganism.
Sibyls and Mantika
The uniqueness of the oracles was that they were perceived as gates through which one could directly communicate with the deity and ask him questions. In the Hellenistic era, the Sibyls, the soothsayers scattered throughout the outskirts of the Greek world, began to compete with the oracles. Unlike the oracles, they did not respond to requests addressed to them, but in ecstasy they prophesied the coming disasters for people. The sayings of the Sibyls were recorded in special books, which in Ancient Rome were consulted only with the special permission of the Senate.
Unlike oracles, sibyls could represent common heritage of all Indo-European peoples - similar predictors are known among
Which was called the oracle. In a broader sense, the oracle was understood both as a soothsayer - the place where the prediction was announced, and the text of the prediction itself. In modern language, an oracle is understood as a predictor of the future, as well as a person whose all judgments are recognized as an immutable truth, a revelation.
Origin
Like other oracles, the Pythia gave predictions on strictly defined days - only on the seventh day of the month, moreover, the sanctuary was closed for the winter. To ensure the favor of the Pythia, inquirers were required to make abundant sacrifices at Delphi. Simpler people therefore turned not to the Pythia, but to wandering soothsayers. The Delphic oracle was closed in 393 by order of the Christian emperor Theodosius the Great as a stronghold of paganism.
Sibyls and Mantika
The uniqueness of the oracles was that they were perceived as gates through which one could directly communicate with the deity and ask him questions. In the Hellenistic era, the Sibyls, the soothsayers scattered throughout the outskirts of the Greek world, began to compete with the oracles. Unlike the oracles, they did not respond to requests addressed to them, but in ecstasy they prophesied the coming disasters for people. The sayings of the Sibyls were recorded in special books, which in Ancient Rome were consulted only with the special permission of the Senate.
Unlike oracles, sibyls could represent the common heritage of all Indo-European peoples - similar predictors are known among the Celts, they are described in the Ramayana and Mahabharata, among the Slavs the same function was performed by prophetic wise men, among the Germans - Velva and Veleda.
One should distinguish priests who were engaged in mantika - the interpretation of signs sent by the gods - from oracles and sibyls. In ancient Rome, these included augurs, who interpreted the behavior of birds, and haruspices, who told fortunes by reading the entrails of sacrificial animals.
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- E. V. Prikhodko. // The concept of fate in context. M.: 1994. S. 191-197.
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Excerpt characterizing the Oracle
– I don’t think anything bad about anyone: I love everyone and feel sorry for everyone. But what should I do?Sonya did not give in to the gentle tone with which Natasha addressed her. The softer and more searching the expression on Natasha’s face was, the more serious and stern Sonya’s face was.
“Natasha,” she said, “you asked me not to talk to you, I didn’t, now you started it yourself.” Natasha, I don't believe him. Why this secret?
- Again, again! – Natasha interrupted.
– Natasha, I’m afraid for you.
- What to be afraid of?
“I’m afraid that you will destroy yourself,” Sonya said decisively, herself frightened by what she said.
Natasha's face again expressed anger.
“And I will destroy, I will destroy, I will destroy myself as quickly as possible.” None of your business. It will feel bad not for you, but for me. Leave me, leave me. I hate you.
- Natasha! – Sonya cried out in fear.
- I hate it, I hate it! And you are my enemy forever!
Natasha ran out of the room.
Natasha no longer spoke to Sonya and avoided her. With the same expression of excited surprise and criminality, she walked around the rooms, taking up first this or that activity and immediately abandoning them.
No matter how hard it was for Sonya, she kept an eye on her friend.
On the eve of the day on which the count was supposed to return, Sonya noticed that Natasha had been sitting all morning at the living room window, as if expecting something, and that she made some kind of sign to a passing military man, whom Sonya mistook for Anatole.
Sonya began to observe her friend even more carefully and noticed that Natasha was in a strange and unnatural state all the time during lunch and evening (she answered questions asked to her at random, started and did not finish sentences, laughed at everything).
After tea, Sonya saw a timid girl's maid waiting for her at Natasha's door. She let her through and, listening at the door, learned that a letter had been delivered again. And suddenly it became clear to Sonya that Natasha had some terrible plan for this evening. Sonya knocked on her door. Natasha didn't let her in.
“She'll run away with him! thought Sonya. She is capable of anything. Today there was something especially pitiful and determined in her face. She cried, saying goodbye to her uncle, Sonya recalled. Yes, it’s true, she’s running with him, but what should I do?” thought Sonya, now recalling those signs that clearly proved why Natasha had some terrible intention. “There is no count. What should I do, write to Kuragin, demanding an explanation from him? But who tells him to answer? Write to Pierre, as Prince Andrei asked, in case of an accident?... But maybe, in fact, she has already refused Bolkonsky (she sent a letter to Princess Marya yesterday). There’s no uncle!” It seemed terrible to Sonya to tell Marya Dmitrievna, who believed so much in Natasha. “But one way or another,” Sonya thought, standing in the dark corridor: now or never the time has come to prove that I remember the benefits of their family and love Nicolas. No, even if I don’t sleep for three nights, I won’t leave this corridor and forcefully let her in, and I won’t let shame fall on their family,” she thought.
Anatole Lately moved to Dolokhov. The plan to kidnap Rostova had been thought out and prepared by Dolokhov for several days, and on the day when Sonya, having overheard Natasha at the door, decided to protect her, this plan had to be carried out. Natasha promised to go out to Kuragin’s back porch at ten o’clock in the evening. Kuragin had to put her in a prepared troika and take her 60 versts from Moscow to the village of Kamenka, where a disrobed priest was prepared who was supposed to marry them. In Kamenka, a setup was ready that was supposed to take them to the Warsaw road and there they were supposed to ride abroad on postal ones.
Anatole had a passport, and a travel document, and ten thousand money taken from his sister, and ten thousand borrowed through Dolokhov.
Two witnesses - Khvostikov, a former clerk, who was used for games by Dolokhov and Makarin, a retired hussar, good-natured and weak person, who had boundless love for Kuragin, sat in the first room having tea.
In Dolokhov’s large office, decorated from walls to ceiling with Persian carpets, bear skins and weapons, Dolokhov sat in a traveling beshmet and boots in front of an open bureau on which lay abacus and stacks of money. Anatole, in an unbuttoned uniform, walked from the room where the witnesses were sitting, through the office into the back room, where his French footman and others were packing the last things. Dolokhov counted the money and wrote it down.
“Well,” he said, “Khvostikov needs to be given two thousand.”
“Well, give it to me,” said Anatole.
– Makarka (that’s what they called Makarina), this one will selflessly go through fire and water for you. Well, the score is over,” said Dolokhov, showing him the note. - So?
“Yes, of course, so,” said Anatole, apparently not listening to Dolokhov and with a smile that never left his face, looking ahead of him.
