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The cult of Zeus at [[Dodona]] in [[Epirus]], where there is evidence of religious activity from the second millennium BC onward, centered on a sacred oak. When the ''[[Odyssey]]'' was composed (circa 750 BC), divination was done there by barefoot priests called ''Selloi'', who lay on the ground and observed the rustling of the leaves and branches. By the time [[Herodotus]] wrote about Dodona, female priestesses called [[peleiades]] ("doves") had replaced the male priests.
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==== ドドナの神託 ====
エピルスのドドナでは、紀元前2千年以降、神聖なオークを中心としたゼウス信仰が行われていたことが確認されている。『オデュッセイア』が書かれた当時（紀元前750年頃）、そこではセロイと呼ばれる裸足の神官が、地面に寝転んで葉や枝のざわめきを観察しながら占いを行っていたという<ref>''Odyssey'' 14.326-7</ref>。。ヘロドトスがドドナについて書いた頃には、ペレイアデス（「鳩」）と呼ばれる女性の巫女が男性の巫女に取って代わっていた。
Zeus' consort at Dodona was not [[Hera]], but the goddess [[Dione (Titaness/Oceanid)|Dione]] — whose name is a feminine form of "Zeus". Her status as a [[Titan (mythology)|titaness]] suggests to some that she may have been a more powerful pre-Hellenic deity, and perhaps the original occupant of the oracle.
