Sybil : one of the Greek women who acted as mediums of the oracles & prophecies of Olympian gods. Nine Sibylline books were offered to Tarquinius Superbus, last of the seven kings of Rome, by the Cumaean sibyl. He refused to pay her price, so she burned six of the books before finally selling him the remaining three at the price she had originally asked for nine. The books were thereafter kept in the temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline Hill, to be consulted only in emergencies.
... revelation which is the characteristic of the Vedas and Upanishads. It has therefore the uttemess of the speech of the spiritual and not the glimmering beauty of a mystical experience, it is not the sybil who speaks here but the seer." 18 Goethe's Faust, accounted after Dante' s Divina Commedia as the greatest single poem of the Western world, is the work of "a high poetic intelligence ...
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