Little is known about how the priestess achieved her trance connection. Some say drugs, some say a vapor came up through the ground, others say it corresponds to other techniques known by other matriarchal societies and passed down the female line mother to daughter just like the Indian and African witchdoctors, the Siberian Shamans or the South American Shamans passed techniques via the male line, father to son. Yet there is no proof of any of this, and though many people have strong opinons, how the priestess connected with the oracle is still being hotly debated.

What has become clear is that the site of Delphi is a newer, secondary site and the original site was a cave or caves high in the Parnassos mountains above the site at Delphi. Scholars and archeologists feel they have located this cave, the Corycian Carvern (Korikio Andron). I found a map in a book on the Delphic myth and brought it with me to Greece. After leaving Athens, Pat and I stayed in the "modern" hillside town of Delphi and had a chance to look for the cave. Maria's husband, the innkeeper at Hotel Athena in Delphi, drew another more detailed map for me to the place where the roads stop and a trail up the side of Parnassos begins. It was a nice morning and we went to a local bakery to load our backpacks with bread and powdered sugar cookies. I could locate the bakery blocks away from the smell of fresh breads.

To get away we climbed up to the stadium on the hill. I took a nap and had a dream. I am watching a woman in the dream. She appears to be an ancient Greek warrior. She has on her helmet three horses and in front of her swiming in the air are two dolphins.

Later when we returned to Athens I found an image of the "Varvakeion" Athena which has three pegasus on her helmet. At the time I simple felt starngley compelled to run around the stadium. Later, as other people came up to the stadium, we noticed that they too would often spontaneously break into a run or preform some kind of gymnastic feat.