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letsdothis2 ago

*Emily Ovenden

https://voat.co/v/pizzagatewhatever/2619522

Emily Ovenden is the daughter of artists Graham Ovenden (convicted paedophile) and Annie Ovenden. She was born and raised in Cornwall and now lives in London. She performed backing vocals on Dragonforce's The Power Within[7] and Reaching into Infinity.[8] She is also a founding member and former lead vocalist of English gothic metal band Pythia. Emily left the group at the beginning of 2016.

Emily performing in Pythia https://youtu.be/G-AaY00F6UI

and now co-owns a pub the Chandos Arms with her husband: https://twitter.com/EmilyAOvenden/status/1012713905594880000

which won an award for Best Newcomer (ahem) which even BBC Russia reported on. When you've got friends in high places...

letsdothis2 ago

Who was the Pythia? https://womeninantiquity.wordpress.com/2017/04/01/pythia/

The Pythia was the oracular priestess at Delphi. This oracle was of importance as early as the seventh century BCE.1 The sanctuary’s peak is dated from the period following the Greek victories in the Persian Wars to the destruction of the sanctuary’s temple to Apollo by fire in 373 BCE.2 Although there was a belief during Plutarch’s time that the oracle had a three thousand year-old reputation.3 However, Connelly (2007) relates that the first recorded mention of this priestess is found in Theognis who was active in the sixth century BCE.4 The position of oracle was active until the fourth century CE when the emperor Julian the Apostate, who reigned from 361 to 363 CE, sent an envoy to Delphi only to find “that … the Pythia spoke no more”5 and when the emperor Theodosios “banned divination and closed all oracular shrines” in 391 CE.6