{"id":9856,"date":"2019-04-17T14:40:32","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T21:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9856"},"modified":"2019-05-19T14:44:56","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T21:44:56","slug":"delphi-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/04\/17\/delphi-discovered\/","title":{"rendered":"Delphi Discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/archaeology-and-history\/magazine\/2019\/03-04\/ancient-greece-ruins-of-delphi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"from National Geographic (opens in a new tab)\">from National Geographic<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Once sacred, the Oracle at Delphi was lost for a millennium. See how it was found.<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Relying on clues from the past, a team of 19th-century archaeologists uncovered Delphi, the site where ancient Greeks asked questions, and Apollo answered them.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>BY&nbsp;<strong>MAR\u00cdA TERESA MAGAD\u00c1N<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"292\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KCgbG0YYGGE\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Greek myth holds that the thunder god Zeus once dispatched two eagles flying in opposite directions across the sky. Where their paths crossed would be the center of the world. Legend says that the birds met over Delphi, seated on the slopes of Parnass\u00f3s. Zeus marked the spot with a stone called the&nbsp;<em>omphalos&nbsp;<\/em>(navel), to signify the location\u2019s centrality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to another myth, this impressive spot in central Greece (about 100 miles northwest of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/travel\/intelligent-travel\/2013\/06\/18\/living-history-in-athens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Athens<\/a>) was originally sacred to Gaea, mother goddess of the earth, who placed her son Python, a serpent, as a guard for Delphi and its oracle. Apollo, god of light and music, slew the serpent and took over the site for himself. Priestesses who served Apollo there were called the \u201cPythia,\u201d named in honor of Gaea\u2019s vanquished son. Throughout the classical world spread the belief that these priestesses channeled prophecies from Apollo himself. (Read about the&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/science\/2001\/08\/greece-delphi-oracle-gas-vapors-science\" target=\"_blank\">science behind the Delphic Oracle&#8217;s prophetic powers.<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cult of Apollo seems to have been functioning in Delphi as early as the eighth century B.C. About two centuries later, leaders from all over Greece were consulting the oracle on major issues of the day: waging war, founding colonies, and religious rituals. Since it was a place used by different\u2014and often rival\u2014Greek states, Delphi soon became not only a sacred space but also a place where a city-state could exhibit its status to the wider Greek world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/archaeology-and-history\/magazine\/2019\/03-04\/ancient-greece-ruins-of-delphi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"click to continue reading at Nat Geo (opens in a new tab)\">click to continue reading at Nat Geo<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from National Geographic Once sacred, the Oracle at Delphi was lost for a millennium. See how it was found. Relying on clues from the past, a team of 19th-century archaeologists uncovered Delphi, the site where ancient Greeks asked questions, and Apollo answered them. BY&nbsp;MAR\u00cdA TERESA MAGAD\u00c1N Greek myth holds that the thunder god Zeus once [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}