or the Oracle at Delphi, especially about female soothsayers, called Sibyls, who practiced Bibliomancy?
One of the most enigmatic events in Roman history (or legend) arose from The Cumaean Sibyl, selling Sibylline Books to the last king of ancient Rome, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, who died in 495 BCE. By 370 BCE, the Roman Senate protected and controlled release of information from prophetic Sibylline Books. After politicians and military leaders decided, which phrase would influence public opinion, they released their interpretations of Sibylline Books. Ancient architects designed some of the most important oracular shrines in history, due to public release of information from Sibylline Books. In legend, the Cumaean Sibyl parleyed value of books, by burning them, until the king paid full price.
Does anyone believe this historic account from a book I am writing?
Men and women holding equal religious rank suggests Gnosticism, which arose in the first and second centuries based on Platonic dualism. Pope Innocent III openly labeled Gnosticism as heresy, unleashing the Albigensian Crusade, from 1209 until 1255 CE, upon the Gnostic Catharists of Southern France. After capturing a small village of Servian, Crusaders headed for Béziers, arriving on July 21, 1209 CE. Although surrounded, the town refused demands to hand over Catharists. Béziers fell the next day, as Crusaders followed a retreating counter-assault into the city and slaughtered the entire population of over ten-thousand, in a town protecting around five-hundred Catharists. News of the eradication at Béziers spread rapidly, causing other settlements to surrender and Gnostics to evacuate to safer nations. Cathar strongholds progressively fell, the largest at Peyrepertuse in 1240 CE. Military efforts took a toll on Gnosticism, until the Spanish Inquisition, starting in 1478 CE, destroyed the belief.
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