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The Delphic Temple Part I - Consulting the Pythia

from Return of the Sophist by Polemicist

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Apollo is a musician
And Pythia his instrument

In this magnificent pagan house of holiness
Fate approves of my mission, goats tremble
Now I prepare my sacrifice
For Zeus and his sons

On this day
I walk “The Sacred Way”
Purified by waters steep
Ignited by fires deep
The mission for the wise
Pythia will agree
Wise is ‘he’.

I fall in line with the rest of the supplicants
Near the place where Zeus cast his stone
They have also travelled miles to consult the oracle
What do they know?

My time to enter the adyton has come
Next in line to be chosen
The Python odor pours over me
I watch the pneuma rise far beyond the soil

(1:55
Solo: Lydia)

I approach the curtain, veiled
What secrets lie beyond?
What answers now await me?
Are they in the realm of poetry or philosophy?
For as Homer says: “Many lies tells the poet”.

There, seated on the tripod
Pythia awaits in wonder
Her priests surround her
And begin to murmur to me:
What is your question?
She is both young and old
She transcends pedestrian beauty
She glows in her own power
The most mysterious figure
In the Delphic Temple

Pythia—I beseech you:
Who is the wisest?

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from Return of the Sophist, released June 25, 2021

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