The delphic sibyl, libyan sibyl, persian sibyl, cumaean sibyl, and the erythraean sibyl. Sibyl, prophetess in greek legend and literature Tradition represented her as a woman of prodigious old age uttering predictions in ecstatic frenzy, but she was always a figure of the mythical past, and her prophecies, in greek hexameters, were handed down in writing. The meaning of sibyl is any of several prophetesses usually accepted as 10 in number and credited to widely separate parts of the ancient world (such as babylonia, egypt, greece, and italy). Sibylla cumana) was the priestess presiding over the apollonian oracle at cumae, a greek colony near naples, italy The word sibyl comes (via latin) from the ancient greek word sibylla, meaning prophetess
There were many sibyls throughout the ancient world. 1) sibyl has a few undisclosed skeletons in the closet and manages them while drinking abusively 2) sibyl is a shrink and the border between her private life and her professional life does not exist 3) sibyl is a writer and she draws inspiration from her own surroundings. The sibyl utters her predictions not on being consulted, like established oracles, but spontaneously, in ecstatic exclamations. The name is said to be formed from διὸς (dios) and βουλή (boulē), so that it would signify the counsel of zeus
