{"id":1211,"date":"2023-02-14T01:17:07","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T01:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/67.225.164.17\/~chronarchy\/?p=1211"},"modified":"2023-02-14T01:17:07","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T01:17:07","slug":"the-homeric-oracle-from-the-greek-magical-papyri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/67.225.164.17\/~chronarchy\/the-homeric-oracle-from-the-greek-magical-papyri\/","title":{"rendered":"The Homeric Oracle from the Greek Magical Papyri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>PGM 1-148<br \/>\nTranslator: Hubert Martin, Jr.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The <i> PGM<\/i> describes this oracle as similar to a horoscope from today&#8217;s newspapers, and reading through the responses, it does seem similar. Rather than answering a specific question, it might be good to &#8220;roll the dice&#8221; and apply the passage to the day ahead.<\/p>\n<p>The verse is indicated by number first, then the dice combination (a six-sided die is rolled three times, and the order of numbers is how you decide which verse applies), followed by the quote, and it&#8217;s source.<\/p>\n<p>A similar oracle is also available, drawn from a collection of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chronarchy.com\/essays\/chaos\/authentic\/oracle-christian-gen.html\">Christian oracles<\/a> several centuries later.<\/p>\n<p>The verse will be picked randomly each time you refresh this screen, but I suggest you only check it once per day if you want to use this oracle as it was intended.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s verse, specific to you, is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>82. 3-2-4: <i>Now is it no longer possible for him to find escape from us,<\/i><br \/>\n-[<i>Il.<\/i> 22.50]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b>So says the Homeric Oracle. May it help you!<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PGM 1-148 Translator: Hubert Martin, Jr. The PGM describes this oracle as similar to a horoscope from today&#8217;s newspapers, and reading through the responses, it does seem similar. Rather than answering a specific question, it might be good to &#8220;roll the dice&#8221; and apply the passage to the day ahead. The verse is indicated by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,16,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-chaos","category-essays"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Homeric Oracle from the Greek Magical Papyri - Chronarchy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/67.225.164.17\/~chronarchy\/the-homeric-oracle-from-the-greek-magical-papyri\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Homeric Oracle from the Greek Magical Papyri - Chronarchy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"PGM 1-148 Translator: Hubert Martin, Jr. The PGM describes this oracle as similar to a horoscope from today&#8217;s newspapers, and reading through the responses, it does seem similar. 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