Becoming a "Pythia" -- Greek Visionary

Yassas,

Today I went to another archeological site - Delphi (which means "dolphin" in Greek).  When I went, I got pretty bored -- until my Dad found a tunnel in the ruins.  It was about two foot tall and two foot wide.  Me and my Dad wondered what was inside and what the tunnel was for. Then we remembered that we'd brought a flashlight in our backpack.  My Dad said "Etta, do you want to go in there?"  I said "totally" and grabbed the flashlight.  I crawled around for a while then I came out of the tunnel at a different spot.  I told my parents what it looked like inside: it was cold and damp and cramped.  There were lots of spider webs.  By the way, I don't think I was supposed to go in the tunnel but it wasn't roped off ... so, I followed the tunnels and a lot of them came to a dead end and then I came to a very long tunnel and it came to an open area.  I stepped into the light.  I looked around and saw a flight of stairs.  I walked up them.  When I came to the top I looked around and I called "Mom, Dad" and my parents came to the stairs.  They asked  me if I had discovered anything new.  I told them about the tunnel and stairs and said that I wanted to go in again!  They told me to talk as I walked so that they could "follow me" from outside.  

After my adventure in the tunnels, I got a little hungry, so we found a nice sunny area to sit down.  My Mommy packed P B & J sandwiches for lunch with apples and oranges.  Yum!  Oh my -- I forgot to tell you where we got the oranges from.  When we were driving to the site yesterday we stopped along the road to get a little fresh air.  But since we were on the highway, there was no where to pull over except a giant orange farm -- it was about 300 acres -- wow!  So we walked around the orange farm for a while.  I saw about 100 perfect oranges on the ground!  So I grabbed five oranges from the ground and brought them with us!  The oranges were delicious for lunch.  

While we were eating we read about the Delphi site ... and all of a sudden my Mom was reading about TUNNELS!  The same tunnels I crawled around in!  The Guidebook said: underneath the temple of Apollo (the sun god) there were tunnels that connected to the entrance of the temple.  The Pythia would have been the only one who knew about the tunnel and could crawl through them.  Everyone who came to visit the Pythia thought she appeared in the temple magically -- when really she was just using the tunnels!  The Pythia  was a future teller who would breath fumes from the volcano.  It was believed that the fumes would open up her mind to see your future.

After me and my family read about the tunnels we were amazed that I had crawled through the tunnels that the Pythia had used.  I was a Pythia for the day!

Bye, bye,

Nicoletta