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Sacred Places: Delphi, Greece (285 words) |
 | Inside was the adyton, the centre of the Delphic oracle and seat of Pythia. |
| The sacred spring of Delphi lies in the ravine of the Phaedriades. |
| The preserved remains of two monumental fountains that received the water from the spring date to the Archaic period and the Roman era. |
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George Seferis - Delphi (3598 words) |
| From the East and the North it is closed by the Phaedriades: Hyambeia, which descends like the prow of a big ship and cuts the ravine; the northern Rodini, which almost touches the Stadium. |
| Yet, the Phaedriades shine, as does the dry rock of Parnassus, and higher up in the air two eagles with outstretched, immobile wings move slowly in the azure sky like the eagles that Zeus once set free so that they would show him the centre of the world. |
| You turn again toward the Phaedriades that you looked at and looked at again throughout the day, and especially at high noon, when they shine, dry, when the old mirrors have found all their power again. |
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