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Battlestar Galactica All of This Has Happened Before and It Will Happen Again

For information on the religious writings in the Original Series, meet Kobollian Organized religion.

A closeup of the Book of Pythia.

Pythia was an ancient oracle, believed to have been one of the writers of the Sacred Scrolls, some 3,600 years prior to the events of the Miniseries and the destruction of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol.

Pythia'due south writings are both obscure and all the same well-known: obscure, in that her entire writings are not widely studied amidst modern Colonials, but well-known in that extracts are widely quoted, often out of context, such every bit the following:

"All this has happened before. All this volition happen once again." [i]

Key to Pythia'due south writings are two passages, relating to the exile and rebirth of the human race:

"And the Lords anointed a leader to guide the caravan of the heavens to their new homeland. And unto the leader, they gave a vision of serpents, numbering ii and 10, equally a sign of things to come."

President Laura Roslin, while giving a printing conference 36 days into the flight of the surviving Colonials, had a hallucination that her podium showed ii snakes crawling on it, and then a dozen (The Hand of God). Additionally, Pythia wrote that the anointed leader had a "wasting illness" and would not live to enter the new land; Roslin is dying of cancer at the time.

In the second passage, Pythia foretells of an initial battle in which the Colonials are "led past serpents two and ten" and are victorious over their foes. During their flight from the Cylons, the Colonials are forced to attack a Cylon base of operations in gild to obtain fuel. The attack is led past twelve Vipers (The Hand of God). All the same, Pythia's writings on the boxing foretell information technology leading to a larger confrontation, this fourth dimension "at the home of the Gods." (The Hand of God)[two]

The writings of Pythia appear to have particular interest to the Cylons. Leoben Conoy used quotes from Pythia during his interrogation, and goes on to betoken out to Kara Thrace that while her people kneel before idols, "You don't realize your destiny has already been written" — another reference to Pythia's foretelling of the exile (Mankind and Bone).

Information technology is unclear, particularly in the context of "all this has happened before" if Pythia is writing history which repeats, or prophecy or both. Her writings are always in the by tense, and some phrases clearly refer to past events (the journey to Earth) while in other instances information technology is said she has "foretold" events. However, text from the book of Pythia is used to help locate the Tomb of Athena which is alleged to be synthetic during the swell exodus 1,600 years after her writing. (Home, Part II)

Greek Parallels

The Pythia was a Sibyl, the Oracle of Delphi. While the temple at Delphi was closely identified with Gaia, the mother of Earth (and responsible for laying the foundations for the Olympian gods), Delphi itself had a shut association with Apollo.

Roman Parallels

The Sibylline Books or Sibyllae were a collection of oracular utterances, set out in Greek hexameters, purchased from a sibylla, pregnant prophetess in Greek, by the final rex of Rome, Tarquinius Superbus. These books were consulted at momentous crises through the history of Rome and only fragments have survived, the rest existence lost or deliberately destroyed.

The Sibylline Books should not be dislocated with the so-called Sibylline Oracles, twelve books of prophesies thought to be of Judaeo-Christian origin.

The Flood

Pythia talks of a overflowing which destroyed most of humanity, and left it rejuvenated (The Hub). A deluge of this nature is present in many mythologies with western audiences likely to be near familiar with the biblical story of Noah'due south Ark.

See also

  • Sacred Scrolls
  • Religion in the Twelve Colonies
  • Dodona Selloi

External Links

  • Pythia article at Wikipedia, the gratuitous encyclopedia.

References

  1. ↑ This is actually the opening from "Peter Pan", which Ron D. Moore cites as his source. Template:Cite rdm podcast
  2. ↑ According to Ron Moore, "There used to be a Cylon attack after this whole thing with Sharon went down. The Centurions came and attacked during the upcoming planetarium sequence. And we eventually cut that... Nosotros inverse this very moment correct hither, where Adama gets the gun. It was a late change in the editing room. Originally he took that gun and put information technology to Sharon's head. And we were playing the beat of will he shoot Sharon or not. And then we just fabricated that lift within the last week, so information technology plays out more than emotionally here, instead of putting another gun to another person's head." (source: "Habitation, Part II" podcast)

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