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Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Origins of the Oracle [ ] The Delphic may have been present in some form in Late Mycenaean times from 1400 BC, and there is evidence that Apollo took over the shrine with the arrival of priests from in the 8th century, from an earlier dedication to Gaia. The 8th-century reformulation of the Oracle at Delphi as a shrine to Apollo seems associated with the rise in importance of the city of and the importance of sites in the.

The earliest account of the origin of the Delphic oracle is provided in the to Delphic Apollo, which recent scholarship dates within a narrow range, c. It describes in detail how Apollo chose his first priests, whom he selected in their 'swift ship'; they were ' from Minos' city of Knossos' who were voyaging to sandy Pylos. But Apollo, who had Delphinios as one of his cult epithets, leapt into the ship in the form of a dolphin ( delphys', gen. Dolphin-Apollo revealed himself to the terrified Cretans, and bade them follow him up to the 'place where you will have rich offerings'. The Cretans 'danced in time and followed, singing Iē Paiēon, like the of the Cretans in whose breasts the divine Muse has placed 'honey-voiced singing'. 'Paean' seems to have been the name by which Apollo was known in Mycenaean times.

The in the museum of G.L. Huxley observes, 'If the hymn to (Delphic) Apollo conveys a historical message, it is above all that there were once Cretan priests at Delphi.' Notes that Cretan bronzes are found at Delphi from the eighth century onwards, and Cretan sculptures are dedicated as late as ca 620–600 BC: 'Dedications at the site cannot establish the identity of its priesthood,' he observes, 'but for once we have an explicit text to set beside the archaeological evidence.' An early visitor to these 'dells of Parnassus', at the end of the eighth century, was, who was shown the. There are also many later stories of the origins of the Delphic Oracle. One late explanation, which is first related by the 1st century BC writer,, tells of a goat herder named Coretas, who noticed one day that one of his goats, who fell into a crack in the earth, was behaving strangely. On entering the chasm, he found himself filled with a divine presence and could see outside of the present into the past and the future.

Excited by his discovery he shared it with nearby villagers. Many started visiting the site to experience the convulsions and inspirational trances, though some were said to disappear into the cleft due to their frenzied state. A shrine was erected at the site, where people began worshiping in the late Bronze Age, by 1600 BC. After the deaths of a number of men, the villagers chose a single young woman as the liaison for the divine inspirations.