PHILOSOPHERS'STONE.PART 10

The earliest philosophers from Greek to the Nordic where they entertained strong belief such as" lagnadan"or fate in the old Icelandic sagas of Edda.Other parts of the world also entertain fatalism that people could learn their fate,by consulting oracle.Also people can tell your fortune on the cards,read your palm,that is palmistry,or predict your future in the stars.Fortune tellers or all forms of fortune telling try to foresee the future.Sometimes it is hard to repudiate fortune tellers'claim given the ambiguity of what they see.The famous oracle at Delphi for instance in Greece,could beconsulted by the Greeks.Apollo,the god of the oracle often spoke throughpriestess pythiawho on a stoolsat over the earth's fissure,where hypnotic vapours summoned and arose that put Pythia into trance.She was apollo's mouthpiece and when they cameto Delphi to interrogate the priests of the oracle,who passed it to herand then reinterprete the vagueness in hermessage to the people.In this way,people got the interpretedmessage.