In ancient
times the Oracle was consulted as a source of inspiration, revelation
or prophecy. In the Greek myth, Oedipus consulted the Oracle
at Thebes who told him he would murder his father and marry his
mother, which indeed, all unknowingly, he did. The tradition
of State Oracle persists to the present day, notably in Tibet.
The Oracle is the prophet or soothsayer, one who knows what others
do not know and who is thus consulted about future events.
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