Biography Pythia

Pythia – the prophetess at Delphi. When DELPHI sanctuary in ancient times, when appealed to the oracle, it seems, only once a year, had two AP and one vice-president of, and thereafter, with more frequent voproshenii oracle, had only one PA was preparing to prophecy a three-day fasting and washing in the Castalian Spring, before the oracle wore luxurious clothes, placed a laurel wreath on his head, drank water source Kassotidy and chewed leaves of the sacred laurel. Then she sat on a huge tripod, standing over the hollows, and indulge in the ecstasy of stupefying fumes, prophesied. Pairs of these were harmful. Known for one case when the AP, jumping down from the tripod, fell in unconscious and died.