If you couldn’t get an audience with her, Pan’s goatherd in the Korykian Cave could tell your future in a roll of the sacred bones
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It’s clear that many of these oracles recorded in ancient literature acted as narrative devices used to tell the stories that are our histories
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In this way they fulfilled a triple role, benefiting the clever historical hero, the witty teller of the tale, and ultimately the oracle, itself
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