ladyblackfyre:Mythology Meme → Three LocationsEchecrates the Thessalian, having arrived at the s
ladyblackfyre: Mythology Meme → Three Locations Echecrates the Thessalian, having arrived at the shrine and beheld the virgin who uttered the oracle, became enamoured of her because of her beauty, carried her away and violated her; and that the Delphians because of this deplorable occurrence passed a law that in the future a virgin should no longer prophesy but that an elderly woman of fifty would declare the Oracles and that she would be dressed in the costume of a virgin, as a sort of reminder of the prophetess of olden times. -- source link