# Los oráculos

An episode of [Filosofía, Psicología, Historias](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1533597906), 7 Jun 2024, 8:12.

Audio: https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/60310582/los_or_culos.mp3

Los oráculos o misterios, eran personas, libros o instituciones que interpretaban el futuro y se comunicaban con los dioses.

## Transcript

[0:00] Welcome to another episode of philosophy, psychology stories. Today we' re going
[0:07] to talk about the oracles and their influence. At the request of listener Claudio
[0:12] Gutierrez. I remind those who want me to delve into a particular topic,
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[0:59] Instagram. Let us then go to the oracles that were institutions or people who
[1:06] in ancient times were believed to have the ability to communicate with the gods or
[1:14] provide some answers or predictions in ancient Greece. Perhaps the most famous is the
[1:19] oracle of Delphi and the oracle of Ephesus. Delphi' s was destined for
[1:26] Apollo and the Confess to Artemis, his sister Gemela, that is, one
[1:34] for the Sun god and one for the Moon Goddess. Of course there were
[1:38] other minor oracles, such as Dodonna' s, dedicated to Zeus or Olympia,
[1:42] also associated with the Zeus Shrine in Olympia. In the ancient rome were
[1:48] the Sybil oracles that were in texts compiled from prophecies of an old civilian woman
[1:56] who had wanted to sell King Tarqui the superb nine volumes of predictions about the
[2:04] future of Rome and asked for a price, and Tarquin wanted to lower the
[2:10] price and the civilian threw three books into the fire. It must be understood
[2:15] that books are not books as we understand them today of booklets united with two
[2:22] lids, but rather are rolled papyrus. Then she returned a while later the
[2:29] civilian, who is the prophet. It is not what many later also called
[2:31] witches to offer the remaining six volumes to King Tarkino, and he wanted to
[2:37] make a new discount and she threw three more into the fire and when there
[2:40] were only three left in the king he paid those three for the price of
[2:46] nine, and those books were consulted throughout the history where Rome had its existence.
[2:53] In Egypt there were also oracles, the oracle of Ammon, for example,
[2:59] who was consulted by Alexander the Great and where he was declared the son
[3:04] of Zeusamon. In Mesopotamia were the oracles of the gods Yamash and Adad.
[3:08] In China there was the oracle of bones, which was an oracle of animal
[3:14] bones and turtle shells that were heated to crack, and the patterns of cracks
[3:19] were what was interpreted in Celtic culture. The Druids were the oracles, priests
[3:24] acting as intermediaries between the gods and men, and the oracle was greatly consulted.
[3:32] It was to make all kinds of decisions and it was believed that that
[3:38] decision was accompanied by the will of the gods, whenever a decision had to
[3:43] be made from a king to a peasant. They consulted them both for harvests,
[3:47] for weddings, for military campaigns, for the foundation of cities, etc.
[3:53] The oracles were the voice of the gods. I named two as the
[3:58] most important in Greece, which was that of Apollo, where the serpent Pithon
[4:01] was thrown by Apollo after a struggle, and by the Grieta, where it
[4:06] was thrown came his wisdom, which was only interpreted by a woman called Pitonisa,
[4:12] and the temple of Artemisa which remained in phessus in present- day Turkey.
[4:17] It was considered one of the seven wonders of the ancient world and was
[4:23] built around the fourth century to Christ. But this wonder was deliberately set on
[4:28] fire by a man named Herostrato, erostrato wanted to set fire, this cradle
[4:34] of mysteries, this cradle of wisdom, because he wanted to become famous and
[4:40] wanted to be remembered forever. The temple was completely destroyed and the authorities of
[4:45] feso decreed that the name of Herestite should never be mentioned again with the aim
[4:50] of erasing its memory in men. But a historian named Teopompo recorded his man,
[5:00] and in that way, Herestratus has come to us and fulfilled his plan
[5:06] to be remembered. There is a very interesting coincidence, which is that the
[5:12] very day on which this fire occurs is born Alexander the Great and many saw
[5:17] it as an omen or an interpretation that the destruction of such an important temple
[5:25] meant that something was happening and that something was going to change forever and this
[5:30] is the birth of the great conqueror, which would lead to elelic wisdom to
[5:35] such a large expansion that it would delimit much of the territories today known as
[5:41] countries. And the burning of this temple not only marked the destruction of one
[5:46] of the most impressive structures in the ancient world, but was engraved in the
[5:50] collective memory as an event loaded with symbolism. And I also wanted to talk
[5:56] about the Chaldean oracles, which are a set of mystical and philosophical texts that
[6:02] emerged in the Roman Empire. And these are philosophical mysteries and are very important
[6:09] because they are related to neo- pitagoric, Platonic, secretive and Gnosticist tendencies.
[6:17] And they are mysteries that are not limited to the prescription of a series
[6:21] of rites, but involve a doctrine about the Universe and, in particular,
[6:26] about the place of the soul within it. For these mysteries, the soul
[6:31] had previously lived in a heavenly place and since then descended or fell through a
[6:38] series of circumstances. Then his destiny was mixed with matter, and his destiny
[6:42] is to return to his original place. Purififying these Chaldean oracles formed a poem
[6:49] in which they are mixed from Orphic motifs to Gnostic, Platonic and Pythoric Stoic
[6:57] motifs. And all these issues. It is that in the universe formed by
[7:01] concentric circles, where the soul descends and ascends freeing itself from the prison that
[7:08] is matter, the stars are divinities from which the soul takes nourishment until returning
[7:14] to its original homeland. For these mysteries or Pythagorean Chaldean oracles. It is
[7:21] the highest expression of the sage and they had a temple in what became known
[7:27] as the neo- Pitagorical religion in the time of Claudius in the Roman Empire.
[7:31] I bid farewell with a small phrase from the Chaldean oracles attributed to Julian
[7:39] the Teurgo or to his father, Julian and Chaldean in the first century I
[7:44] Christ, who says so do not stray from heavenly and divine wisdom, for
[7:48] wisdom is pure light and with it you can understand what is in heaven.
[7:58] Thank you for getting here and we' re in the next episode. I
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