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| '''Dodona Selloi''', a human living on [[New Caprica]], is an [[oracle]]. | | '''Selloi''', a human living on [[New Caprica]], is an [[oracle]]. |
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| [[Number Three]] visits Selloi in her tent, guided by a dream she has about [[Hera Agathon|Hera]], a child believed dead. | | [[Number Three]] visits Selloi in her tent, guided by a dream she has about [[Hera]], a child believed dead. |
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| 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 is surrounded in her tent by curious tapestries and stones. She sits within some of the stones, consuming [[chamalla]], although she prefers some chocolate as well. |
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| 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. 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]]). |
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| 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 {{TRS|Exodus, Part I}}.
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| ==Notes==
| | Selloi is the first oracle seen in the [[Re-imagined Series]]. |
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| *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.
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| *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]])
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