Paradise Painting by Hieronymus Bosch

Famous Art work & Drawing by Hieronymus Bosch - Paradise

Paradise. c.1504-1510. Oil on panel. Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain

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For the ritual of forecasting, Pythia had to observe a fast for the day, bathe and come in white clothes. If the sacrificial goat shivered and bleated when the holy water was sprinkled on it, it was taken and sacrificed at the altar. Pythia was then adorned with a crown made of a special creeper and leaves of Apollo plant. Barely and leaves of laurel plant were burnt in a special vessel before Pythia. Pyathia also chewed the leaves of laurel. She then started swinging in a trance

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