Inside the crypt there in its vault a wonderful set of murals, which represents the sibyl in the form of birds. The package has partridges, pheasants, grouse, peacocks, doves, a goose and a duck, all between stylized plant motifs representing the sacred tree of Attis, pine and fruit. A pictorial representation makes direct reference to the relationship of birds and their songs were at the shrine and its operation as an oracle.
outer court Ostriches are the guardians of the birds inside.
The identification of the goddess Cybele with the ostrich is very old:
V century BC In the book The Birds of Aristophanes actors exclaim
PRIEST .- ... And frigilo Sabazios, ostrich Cybele, August mother of the gods and men.
PISTETERO .- Oh mighty ostrich Cybele, mother of Cleócrito
FAISAN pina
Live birds remained hidden from view of the devotees in the hall perimeter the building has, and prophetic songs of the birds hidden paintings echoed on the vault inside the crypt to the devotees of the goddess.
SECTION OF BIRDS
In Rome divination by the flight or song of birds was in charge of magicians who were mostly from Greece, Asia Minor and Mesopotamia.
This prediction was obtained from the sibyls represented in this case birds are still present in the dome of the shrine of Santa Eulalia.
GALLO PAINTING UNDER A PINE
PERDICES PAINTING COUPLE IN PINEAPPLE
PAINTINGS INSIDE THE CRYPT
PAINTINGS INSIDE THE CRYPT
OCA PAINTING
PAINTINGS OF THE CRYPT
INTERIORDE
PAINTINGS INSIDE THE CRYPT
PAINTINGS INSIDE THE CRYPT
Cibeles had many shrines in ancient oracles were residing in sibyls. These allowed the priests of the goddess's interpretation of the future. Sibyls were considered prophetic voices, disembodied, timeless, that the Greco-Roman anthropomorphic embodied in the form of prophetess. These voices were those of birds associated with the cult of Cybele. Roosters, ducks, geese, pheasants, quail, etc. The flight of birds, their songs and their cries contained Sibyls prophecies.
Martin Cano is documented by the League of twelve cities were located where the oracles in antiquity, some devotees of the goddess Cybele.
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