When Jason was 20 years old, an oracle ordered him to dress as a Magnesian and head to the Iolcan court.

Oreste, son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, brother to Electra and Iphigenia, and by now absolved of the crime of matricide prophesied by the Delphic oracle, has come to the court of Pyrrhus to plead on behalf of the Greeks for the return of Astyanax.

It further portrays Masakado receiving an oracle that confers on him the status of emperor, after which his confederates style him the “ New Emperor ,” and Masakado goes on to appoint a new court and bureaucracy and lay plans for building a new imperial palace in Shimōsa.

Not only would they imply the sudden onset of a level of arrogance dramatically at odds with Masakado ’ s behavior before and after these incidents, but the title of “ New Emperor ,” the oracle proclaiming Masakado ’ s ascension, the building of a new imperial palace, and the naming of new central government officials appear only in Shōmonki and texts derived from it ; they are not mentioned in any of the court ’ s proclamations or other records of the Masakado affair — which is exceedingly odd, in light of the frenzy and paranoia that gripped the court in 940, if Masakado really did any of these things.

The Greek historians record that the town was celebrated for its monolithite temple and oracle of the goddess Wadjet ( Buto ) ( Herod.

The annals of the Shang dynasty compiled by later historians were long thought to be little more than legends until oracle script inscriptions on bones dating from his reign were unearthed at the ruins of his capital Yin ( near modern Anyang ) in 1899.

The validity of the Oracular utterance was confirmed by the consequences of the application of the oracle to the lives of those people who sought Oracular guidance.

According to the same inscription, the omen was later confirmed by the oracle at Delphi.

Creusa left Ion to die in the wild, but Apollo asked Hermes to save the child and bring him to the oracle at Delphi, where he was raised by a priestess.

In the Jewish Deuterocanonical book Second Maccabees, Chapter 2, " one finds in the records " that Jeremiah, having received an oracle of the Lord, ordered that the tent and the ark and the altar of incense should follow him to the mountain of God where he sealed them up in a cave, and he told those who followed him in order to mark the way ( but they could not find it ) " The place shall remain unknown until God gathers his people together again and shows his mercy, and then the Lord will disclose these things, and the glory of the Lord and the cloud shall appear, as they were shown in the case of Moses, and as Solomon asked that the place be specially consecrated.

An oracle in hexameter verse represented a pastoral life as his only retreat, but his disciples, perhaps calming his fears by a metaphorical interpretation, compelled him to resume his instructions.

Desiring to reconquer his paternal inheritance, Hyllus consulted the Delphic oracle, which told him to wait for " the third fruit ", ( or " the third crop ") and then enter Peloponnesus by " a narrow passage by sea ".

The oracle, being again consulted by Temenus, bade him offer an expiatory sacrifice and banish the murderer for ten years, and look out for a man with three eyes to act as guide.

Pelias, still fearful that he would one day be overthrown, consulted an oracle which warned him to beware of a man with one sandal.

Antioch was a city favored by splendid temples along with a famous oracle of Apollo in nearby Daphne, which may have been cause for him choosing to reside there.

An example is that Kamsa ( or Kansa ), the evil uncle of lord Krishna, was informed by an oracle that the eighth son of his sister Devaki would kill him.

Xenophon writes that he had asked the veteran Socrates for advice on whether to go with Cyrus, and that Socrates referred him to the divinely inspired Delphic oracle.

The oracle answered his question and told him to which gods to pray and sacrifice.

Because of this unlawful act, an oracle warned him that a descendant of Aeolus would seek revenge.

Laius ' tragic son, crossing his father's path, killed him and fulfilled the oracle spoken of old at Pytho.

Oedipus, when he hears this news is overwhelmed with relief, because he believed that Polybus was the father whom the oracle had destined him to murder, and he momentarily believes himself to have escaped fate.

Being desirous of reconquering his paternal inheritance, Hyllus consulted the Delphic oracle, which told him to wait for " the third fruit ," and then enter Peloponnesus by " a narrow passage by sea.

The oracle, being again consulted by Temenus, bade him offer an expiatory sacrifice and banish the murderer for ten years, and look out for a man with three eyes to act as guide.

The oracle of Apollo then instructed them to atone for their error and rid themselves of their suffering by honouring the poet, which led to the shrine being dedicated to him.

In Euripides ' play Elecktra, Orestes questions an oracle who calls upon him to kill his mother, and wonders if the oracle was not from Apollo, but some malicious alastor.

The Bibliotheca also states that the other Epigoni received an oracle instructing them to make Alcmaeon their leader, and therefore convinced him to go with them, although he was unwilling.

On hearing the noise, Adrastus hastened to them and separated the combatants, in whom he immediately recognised the two men that had been promised to him by an oracle as the future husbands of two of his daughters, for one bore on his shield the figure of a boar, and the other that of a lion, and the oracle was that one of his daughters was to marry a boar and the other a lion.

According to Apollodorus ' account, an oracle told Catreus that one of his children would kill him.

After which, commanded by an oracle, the Rhodians honored him as a hero.

Among the Azande, for example, in order to question an oracle a man must have both the physical oracle ( poison, or a washboard, for example ) and knowledge of the words and the rites needed to make the object function.

He also introduced the Thracian practice of tattooing both men and women with eye-like patterns as a magical fetish, in response to an oracle which guaranteed victory against the neighbouring Edonians tribe if so adorned.

The oracle at Delphi resolved the problem by suggesting that they both be made kings, which is the origin of the dual monarchy.

Since then, a young man and a young girl were sacrificed to the goddess each year until, in accordance with the instructions of the Delphian oracle, a strange king ( Eurypylus, son of Euaemon ) introduced the worship of a new deity ( Dionysus, whose image he brought from Troy ) in Patrae, thus both putting an end to the sacrifices and curing himself of madness which had been sent upon him when he had first looked at the god's image.

The outraged goddess cursed the country with plague and famine ; in order to put an end to the calamity, the inhabitants of Patrae were instructed by the oracle of Delphi to sacrifice both lovers to the goddess and, from then on, to sacrifice the handsomest young man and the most beautiful girl of the city each year, until a new strange deity is introduced in Patrae.

Here, the maiden falls in love with Achilles, and accepts to be sacrificed on the pyre as a means to ensure both her lover's happiness ( as predicted by an oracle ) and her father Agamemnon's victory in the Trojan War.

By a decree of the oracle of Dodona, which required the Athenians to grant land for a shrine or temple her cult was introduced into Attica by immigrant Thracian residents, and, though Thracian and Athenian processions remained separate, both cult and festival became so popular that in Plato's time ( ca.

Comparing oracle bone script to both Shang and early Western Zhou period writing on bronzes, oracle bone script is clearly greatly simplified, and rounded forms are often converted to rectilinear ones ; this is thought to be due to the difficulty of engraving the hard, bony surfaces, compared with the ease of writing them in the wet clay of the molds the bronzes were cast from.

A number of Xu Shen's character analyses are erroneous, as the seal script differs considerably from the older bronzeware script and the even older oracle bone script, both of which were unknown at the time, also to Xu Shen.

800 BCE Shizhoupian compendium, or inscriptions on both late W. Zhou bronze inscriptions and the Stone Drums of Qin, or all forms ( including oracle bone script ) predating small seal, the term is best avoided entirely.

The oracle gained in popularity and importance after the influx of Greek settlers into the Delta, since the identification of Bast with Artemis attracted to her shrine both native Egyptians and foreigners.

More formally, a Turing reduction is a function computable by an oracle machine with an oracle for B. Turing reductions can be applied to both decision problems and function problems.

However, because the oracle machine may query the oracle a large number of times, the resulting algorithm may require more time asymptotically than either M or the oracle machine, and may require as much space as both together.

The caterpillar makes an appearance in a few other places outside Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, such as American McGee's Alice and the novel The Looking-Glass Wars ; in both of these spin-offs he plays the role of an oracle.

The " adaptive " component of the security definition means that the attacker has access to this decryption oracle both before and after he observes a specific target ciphertext to attack ( though he is prohibited from using the oracle to simply decrypt this target ciphertext ).

The Nechung, state oracle of Tibet, and Lamo Tsangpa, another oracle, had both predicted the next reincarnation would be born in Mongolia.

In the context of the oracle bones of ancient China, which chiefly utilized both scapulae and the plastrons of turtle, scapulimancy is sometimes used in a very broad sense to jointly refer to both scapulimancy and plastromancy ( similar divination using plastrons ).