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[[ | [[Image:Season 3 - Promo - Epi 1 - 2 - Oracle Selloi.jpg|right|thumb|200px|[[Dodona Selloi]], an oracle.]] | ||
An '''oracle''' is a spiritual advisor | An '''oracle''' is a spiritual advisor with prophetic insight on the directions or motivations of the [[Religion in the Twelve Colonies#The Lords of Kobol|Lords of Kobol]] and the descendants of the Thirteen Tribes who inhabited the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies of Kobol]]. | ||
There is no information on how oracles are created or selected for their work as of the end of season 2 of the [[Re-imagined Series]]. | |||
Oracles use [[chamalla]] to aid in their prophetic insights. The oracles that have appeared in the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] appear to be either reclusive, or left to their own spaces because of their unusual gifts and their effect on others. | |||
[[Pythia]], a oracle that lived 3,600 years before the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]], gave a dark prediction into the [[Religion in the Twelve Colonies#The Cycle of Time|cyclical fate of humanity]]. Her book in the [[Sacred Scrolls]] is often cited by many followers. | |||
[[ | According to Chief [[Galen Tyrol]], his mother was an oracle, and his father was a [[Religion in the Twelve Colonies#The Clergy|priest]] ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]). | ||
[[Dodona Selloi]] is an oracle that lives with the colonists of [[New Caprica]] ([[Exodus, Part I]]). | |||
[[Yolanda Brenn]] is an oracle whom [[Kara Thrace]] seeks counsel about a series of dreams ([[Maelstrom]]). | |||
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