THEATER AT DELPHI

THE NAVEL OF THE EARTH

At the sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi -- where Pythia, the Delphic oracle, would speak his prophecies -- was another theater for Dionysus.

As strange as it seems, Dionysus was also worshiped at Delphi.

Each winter, when Apollo would head off to live with the Hyperboreans, Dionysus would take his place at Delphi. Various nocturnal festivities and rites held in honor of Dionysus on Mount Parnassus, towering above Delphi. 

This was the home of the Pythian or Delphic Games -- one of the four Panhellenic Games.  

Held every four years, they honored the god of light, the sun, prophecy, healing, plague, music, dance, and poetry with. . . music and dance. . . and maybe some poetry.

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*note: there is a stone at Delphi which is said to be the stone that was fed to Kronos in the place of Zeus. . . check it out if you ever visit.

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"One of the most admirable things about history is, that almost as a rule, we get as much information out of what it does not say as we get out of what it does say. . . . History is a frog; half of it is submerged, but he knows it is there, and he knows the shape of it."

"The Secret History of Eddypus", Mark Twain