[apillar]

Despite these testimonies, no serious scholar over the last 50 years has accepted the idea that the Pythia’s trance was caused by a gaseous emission.

I've had a few nights after Taco Tuesday where gaseous emission almost put me in a trance...(sorry couldn't resist)

But seriously, I think the general consensus is that like modern horoscopes or the verses of Nostradamus, the Oracle of Delphi just uttered some vague random phrases that could be interpreted a hundred different ways. A Emperor who wanted to go to war would speak to her, she would utter something like "On the harvest moon, the light of Jupiter will shine on the fields of grain." The Emperor would interpret this as some great victory by Fall. And if he lost the battle...well then the Oracle's supporters would just say he misinterpreted it and the Oracle was speaking of a bountiful harvest.

[Jamestown1630]

I find it kind of hard to believe that some of the most intelligent people of their times - over several hundred years, if not much longer - wouldn’t have figured that out. They were not stupid people.

I think there was more going on.

[kevao]

the Oracle of Delphi just uttered some vague random phrases that could be interpreted a hundred different ways.

You mean like Q?

[BenLurkin]

“All green of skin... 800 centuries ago, their bodily fluids include the birth of half-breeds. For the fundamental truth self-determination of the cosmos, for dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.”