The distinction between oracles and prophesies seems at times to be an arbitrary one, and clearly there is a substantial amount of overlap between the two, for both sought to enlist the power of the gods through ritual to help make human life more comprehensible and thus more subject to human control and so less frightening. The primary distinction is tha
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