Colby College - Oracle Yearbook (Waterville, ME)

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l 1 A 1 - HOUSANDS of years ago on the sunny slopes of Mount Par- : , ' lx nassus within the western border of Phoicis, a goat-herd W tending his flocks discovered among the mountain crags P a natural amphitheatre. Here a deep cavern discharged X-i y from a narrow oriflce a vapor which so powerfully affected ,K the brain of those who came within its influence that it ' I S caused them to become inspired and utter prophecies. 'J ' F' The fame of this place soon spread abroad, until finally above that rocky cavern there arose a beautiful temple to Apollo, adorned by the greatest sculptors, painters and architects that Greece could produce. Beau- tifled and enriched by gifts from all parts of the Grecian world, this temple held within its walls the treasures of state and individual. The Grecian colonist, far from his home-land, never forgot the oracle, but contined to send into the Delphic treasury his harvest tithe in gold-the golden summer. ' VVithin the adyton of this fair temple the seer Pythia, thrown into an ecstatic fury by -the influence of the vapor, uttered the words and cries interpreted by the priests as the answers of Apollo. The Rock of Delphi was held to be the centre of the earth's surface, and certainly in a social and religious sense this was the case for all the Grecian world. Delphi was the knot wherein every strand of civilized life were united. Hither came all those who were in anxiety, doubt, and distress, to go away comforted and enlightened by the utterances of the Oracle. In the progress of Grecian history, as religious and intellectual thought developed, there was a progressive development in the character of the Oracle. It sought to avert all disputes between the tribes, and to compose existing differences. Hence there was an old Hellenic law that one state should not em- ploy the Oracle against another. Gradually the Oracle became the guiding in- fluence in Grecian progress, the centre of the' Amphictionic league, and perhaps the most powerful influence in promoting that ideal unity of the whole which floated always before the Grecian mind. Inscribed within the court of the Delphic temple were the two profound II