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{{Character Data | photo= Season 3 - Promo - Epi 1 - 2 - Oracle Selloi.jpg | age= | colony= | birthname= | callsign= | nickname= | seen= Exodus, Part I | pseen= | death= | parents= | siblings= | children= | marital status= | role= [[Oracle]] | rank= | actor= [[Amanda Plummer]] | cylon= | mcylon= | name= }} '''Dodona Selloi''', a human living on [[New Caprica]], is an [[oracle]]. [[Number Three]] visits Selloi in her tent, guided by a dream she has about [[Hera Agathon|Hera]], a child believed dead. Selloi is surrounded in her tent by curious tapestries and stones. She sits among these, licking [[chamalla]] off of her palm and complaining about its bitterness, wanting candy to sweeten it. Selloi tells her that [[Zeus, Lord of Kobol|Zeus]] and the other [[Religion in the Twelve Colonies#The Lords of Kobol|Lords of Kobol]] are sad for Three. When Three disputes the existence of the Lords of Kobol, Selloi tells her that she knows that Three's own beliefs about [[God (RDM)|God]] are in flux, and that the [[humanoid Cylon]] does not know what to believe. Selloi knows of Three's dream, and tells her of a message from Three's God: The child of two peoples ([[Colonials|human]] and [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]]) is alive, a child named after the [[Hera, Lord of Kobol|wife and sister of Zeus]]<ref>The specific description of the goddess Hera further deepens the parallelism between the Lords of Kobol and their counterparts in the Olympian pantheon of real-world Earth's Greek mythology.</ref>. She warns Three, however, that when Three is able to hold the child in her arms, she will unravel all that the Cylon occupation has done ([[Exodus, Part I]]). ==Notes== *Selloi is the first oracle seen in the [[Re-imagined Series]]. Other oracles, such as [[Galen Tyrol]]'s mother and [[Pythia]], have been mentioned only. Later, [[Yolanda Brenn]] is introduced, because Amanda Plummer was unavailable to reprise her role. *The character is named for [[Wikipedia:Dodona|Dodona]] (Δωδώνη), an ancient city which was home to a Greek oracle<ref>Stewart, Michael. "People, Places & Things: Dodona", ''Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant''. http://messagenet.com/myths/ppt/Dodona_1.html</ref>, and the Selloi (Σελλοί), a group of priests based there<ref>Stewart, Michael. "People, Places & Things: Selloi", ''Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant'' http://messagenet.com/myths/ppt/Selloi_1.html</ref>. (Source: [[Podcast:Exodus, Part I]]) ==References== <div style="font-size:85%"><references/></div> [[Category:A to Z|Selloi, Dodona]] [[Category:Characters|Selloi, Dodona]] [[Category:Characters (RDM)|Selloi, Dodona]] [[Category:One-Shot Characters (RDM)|Selloi, Dodona]] [[Category:RDM|Selloi, Dodona]]

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