Crossword-Solution: PYTHIA 6 letters, 14 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

For, they say, after Homer had composed the _Margites_, he went about from city to city as a minstrel, and coming to Delphi, inquired who he was and of what country? The Pythia answered: ‘The Isle of Ios is your mother’s country and it shall receive you dead; but beware of the riddle of the young children.’ 3701 Hearing this, it is said, he hesitated to go to Ios, and remained in the region where he was.

Whenever the oracle was to be consulted, a virgin priestess called PYTHIA took her seat upon a tripod which was placed over the chasm.

Clisthenes, the son of Megacles, who was the head of the family, secured the Delphian oracle by pecuniary presents to the Pythia, or priestess, henceforth, whenever the Spartans came to consult the oracle, the answer of the priestess was always the same, "Athens must be liberated." This order was so often repeated, that the Spartans at last resolved to obey.

Instead of speech with a Pythia or a Sibyl, they will sell you a plain papyrus leaf, hardly dry from the stalk, and bid you dip it in the water of a certain fountain, when it will show you a verse in which you may hear of your future.” The glow of interest departed from Ben-Hur’s face.

The Pythoness: the witch, or woman, possesed with a prophesying spirit; from the Greek, “Pythia.” Chaucer of course refers to the raising of Samuel’s spirit by the witch of Endor.