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This word meaning "a man who utters the truth" was borrowed from Latin, where oraculum - formed from the verb ogage - "to speak, to pray." Krylov's etymological dictionary
ORAKUL, -a, m.
1. In the ancient world and among the peoples of the Ancient East: the priest is a soothsayer of the will of the deity, who gave answers to any questions in an indisputable form.
2. transfer About whose judgments are recognized as indisputable truth (ironic).
| adj. ~ sk, th, th.
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ORACLE
oracle
op but́Kul
1. m.a) Divination, allegedly emanating from a deity and declared by a priest (among the ancient Greeks, Romans and peoples of the ancient East).
b) The place, the temple, where they turned for divination.
a) The title of the fortune-telling book.
b) The subject for which they are guessing.
2. m.1) Divination deity; a priest giving answers, divinations, supposedly emanating from a deity.
2) A person, all judgments of which are recognized by others as an immutable truth, revelation.
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ORACLE
ORACLE
(Latin oraculum, from oro - I say, I ask), among the ancient Greeks, Romans and peoples of the East, the prediction transmitted by the priests on behalf of the deity to the believers inquiring, as well as the place where the prediction was announced. In a figurative sense - a person, all judgments of which are recognized as immutable truth, revelation.
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ORACLE
oracle
BUT, m.
1. In the ancient world:
a place, a temple, where the priests divined on behalf of the deity, as well as the divining deity.
Delphic oracle.
Alexander walked to the oracle and temple of Sivakh. Bunin, Alexander in Egypt.
2. transfer Book.
A person whose judgments are recognized as immutable truth, revelation.
- It's hard to be a judge in someone else's business ---. If you can, free me from the difficult role of the oracle and decide the case yourself. Chernyshevsky, Theory and Practice.
3. Outdated.
Fortune-telling book.
The new full oracle --- appeared in the house. And Nastasya Petrovna put on glasses in the evenings, rolled a ball of wax and began to throw it around the oracle. Bunin, Village.
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ORACLE
oracle
ORACLE
(Latin oraculum, from orare - to speak, to ask). 1) diviner; a mysterious saying, irrefutably expressed. 2) sayings of the gods. 3) a person who utters something, like an oracle, whose words are given special faith.
(Source: "Dictionary of foreign words included in the Russian language." Chudinov AN, 1910)
ORACLE
lat. oraculum, from orare, to speak, to ask. a) Diviner; foreshadowing. b) A person whose opinions are given special faith. c) Mysterious dictum.
Which was called the oracle. In a broader sense, an oracle was understood as a prophecy - the place where the prediction was announced, and the text of the prediction itself. In modern language, an oracle is understood as a predictor of the future, as well as a person, all of whose judgments are recognized as an immutable truth, a revelation.
Origin
Like other oracles, the Pythia gave predictions on strictly defined days - only on the seventh day of the month, moreover, the sanctuary was closed for the winter. In order to guarantee the favor of the pythia, the inquirers had to make abundant sacrifices in Delphi. Simpler people therefore turned not to the pythia, but to wandering soothsayers. The Delphic Oracle was closed in 393 by order of the Christian Emperor Theodosius the Great as a stronghold of paganism.
Sibyls and mantics
The uniqueness of the oracles was that they were perceived as a gate through which one could directly communicate with the deity, ask him questions. In the era of Hellenism, sibyls began to compete with oracles - soothsayers scattered around the outskirts of the Greek world. Unlike the oracles, they did not respond to inquiries addressed to them, but in ecstasy prophesied the disasters coming to people. The sayings of the Sibyls were recorded in special books, which in ancient Rome were addressed only with the special permission of the Senate.
Unlike oracles, the Sibyls could represent the common heritage of all Indo-European peoples - similar predictors are known among the Celts, they are described in the Ramayana and Mahabharata, the prophetic magi performed the same function among the Slavs, and Velva and Weleda among the Germans.
From oracles and sibyls, one should distinguish the priests who were engaged in mantics - the interpretation of signs sent down by the gods. In ancient Rome, these included augurs, who interpreted the behavior of birds, and haruspics, who divined by the insides of sacrificial animals.
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- E. V. Prikhodko. // The concept of fate in the context of different cultures. M .: 1994.S. 191-197.
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Excerpt from the Oracle
- I do not think bad about anyone: I love everyone and feel sorry for everyone. But what should I do?Sonya did not give up on the gentle tone with which Natasha addressed her. The softer and more searching was the expression on Natasha's face, the more serious and stern Sonya's face was.
“Natasha,” she said, “you asked me not to speak to you, I didn’t speak, now you yourself started. Natasha, I don't believe him. Why is this secret?
- Again, again! Natasha interrupted.
- Natasha, I'm afraid for you.
- Why be afraid?
“I’m afraid that you will ruin yourself,” Sonya said resolutely, herself frightened by what she said.
Natasha's face again expressed anger.
- And I will ruin, I will ruin, I will ruin myself as soon as possible. None of your business. Not you, but I will feel bad. Leave, leave me. I hate you.
- Natasha! - Sonya cried out in fright.
- I hate, I hate! And you are my enemy forever!
Natasha ran out of the room.
Natasha did not speak to Sonya anymore and avoided her. With the same expression of agitated surprise and criminality, she walked from room to room, taking now and then for another occupation and immediately abandoning them.
No matter how hard it was for Sonya, she, without taking her eyes off, watched her friend.
On the eve of the day on which the count was supposed to return, Sonya noticed that Natasha had been sitting all morning at the drawing-room window, as if expecting something, and that she had made some sign to the passing soldier whom Sonya took for Anatole.
Sonya began to observe her friend even more attentively and noticed that Natasha was in a strange and unnatural state all the time of dinner and in the evening (she answered inappropriately to questions made to her, began and did not finish phrases, laughed at everything).
After tea, Sonya saw a timid maid girl who was waiting for her at Natasha's door. She let her in and, overhearing at the door, learned that a letter had again been handed over. And suddenly it became clear to Sonya that Natasha had some terrible plan for this evening. Sonya knocked on her door. Natasha did not let her in.
“She will run away with him! thought Sonya. She is capable of anything. Today there was something especially pitiful and decisive in her face. She burst into tears, saying goodbye to her uncle, Sonya recalled. Yes it is true, she is running with him - but what should I do? " thought Sonya, recalling now those signs which clearly proved why Natasha had some terrible intention. “There is no graph. What should I do, write to Kuragin, demanding an explanation from him? But who tells him to answer? Write to Pierre, as Prince Andrew asked in case of misfortune? ... But maybe, in fact, she already refused Bolkonsky (she sent a letter to Princess Marya yesterday). There is no uncle! " To tell Marya Dmitrievna, who believed in Natasha so much, seemed awful to Sonya. “But one way or another, Sonia thought, standing in the dark corridor: now or never is the time to prove that I remember the good deeds of their family and love Nicolas. No, I won't sleep for at least three nights, but I won't leave this corridor and won't let her in by force, and I won't let the shame fall on their family, ”she thought.
Anatol recently moved to Dolokhov. The plan to kidnap Rostova had already been thought out and prepared by Dolokhov for several days, and on the day when Sonya, having overheard Natasha at the door, decided to protect her, this plan had to be carried out. Natasha at ten o'clock in the evening promised to go out to Kuragin's back porch. Kuragin was supposed to put her in a prepared troika and take her 60 versts from Moscow to the village of Kamenka, where a cropped priest was prepared, who was supposed to marry them. In Kamenka, a setup was ready, which was supposed to take them out to the Warsaw road, and there they had to ride the post office abroad.
Anatol had a passport, and a travel document, and ten thousand money, taken from his sister, and ten thousand, borrowed through Dolokhov.
Two witnesses - Khvostikov, a former clerk whom Dolokhov and Makarin used to play the game, a retired hussar, a good-natured and weak person who had an infinite love for Kuragin - were sitting in the first room at tea.
In Dolokhov's large office, tucked from walls to ceiling with Persian carpets, bearskins and weapons, Dolokhov sat in a traveling beshmet and boots in front of an open bureau, on which lay bills and wads of money. Anatole, in his unbuttoned uniform, walked from the room where the witnesses were sitting, through the study to the back room, where his French footman with others was packing the last things. Dolokhov counted the money and wrote it down.
“Well,” he said, “Khvostikov should be given two thousand.
- Well, give it, - said Anatole.
- Makarka (they called that Makarina), this selflessly for you into the fire and into the water. Well, that's over, '' said Dolokhov, showing him the note. - So?
- Yes, of course, so, - said Anatole, apparently not listening to Dolokhov and with a smile that did not leave his face, looking ahead of himself.
An oracle is a clairvoyant who could see the future, past and present, both on a general scale throughout the world, in his state, and to see completely the life of a person - his future, past and present. In ancient times, the oracle was addressed in somn as a guide, at whom the door to the divine forces is always open, which helped him to look into the future and past of each person individually! Oracles lived in ancient Greece, thanks to their gift of clairvoyance, they could see trouble and suggest how to prevent it! In military affairs, they could give advice to the military leader of that time and correct his actions thereby, so that the campaign was more successful and profitable for them!
The oracles had their own religion, their gods, whom they worshiped every day and brought them any sacrifices or gifts, in order for them to help them better understand and understand this world and at the same time penetrate into a certain space, which gave them special knowledge beyond the reach of the human mind! But at the same time, most often they kept this knowledge secret and passed it on by inheritance! Thanks to the awareness of this nature of this world and skill, it merges into one whole with the universe, with the earth, with the world of spirits, with dark forces, as well as with light ones, in addition to this, they could also with the atmosphere, not just merge with nature, but control! If there was a drought on the earth for a long time, people turned to the oracles and then the oracles entered into a strong meditation and it rained on the ground, and vice versa, in cases when there was a flood, they again entered the track state and the rain stopped on the ground!
The oracles always tried to live in a special place - where a huge flow of energy emanates, a huge flow of energy most often, as before, and right now, is in the somnom in the places where the earth's crust breaks. There, in the place of a break in the earth's crust, they were looking for a special place - the strongest, from which a special constant flow of very powerful energy emanated, they came into contact with this energy and even the strongest and healthiest person could not stay there for a long time and lick the oracles lived there, receiving a special strength, but at the same time constantly sick, since even their body could not withstand such a special flow of energy.
More often than not, the Oracles lived as hermits. In not very neat and clean clothes, they ate whatever the people brought them or whatever gifts they brought from people or kings, they did not take particular care of themselves, they were not neat, dirty and lick their eyes had a special - a little blurred, but at the same time everyone focused, able to penetrate into the depths of the essence of people to the very depths of his soul and awareness of this world. They had such an unusual look - since they often traveled connected in their consciousness to the cosmos of the universe, they could be both in different places and sometimes in two places at the same time, but the chosen ones knew how to do this, and travel not only around our world , but they also went beyond it, traveled to parallel worlds, to other galaxies, as well as to the planets located in our universe. There they received everywhere special knowledge, special powers, energy, skills that sometimes passed on to people and not only.
And they also traveled around our planet, communicating in - not visible to the human eye of other living creatures living in our world, not visible to the human eye, sometimes they had some kind of communication with these creatures or even fought in rare cases, but at the same time they always tried in the subtle world always behave very carefully and not annoy the inhabitants of the other world and the subtle world.