stackyFACTSUnlike standard calm temple prophecies, visiting the deeply feared Oracle of Trophonius rigidly required ancient Greeks to squeeze themselves aggressively into a pitch-black terrifying underground cave system.
Unlike standard calm temple prophecies, visiting the deeply feared Oracle of Trophonius rigidly required ancient Greeks to squeeze themselves aggressively into a pitch-black terrifying underground cave system. Suppliants emerged wildly trembling and completely pale, famously suffering from such intense lingering psychological shock that 'having visited Trophonius' became a cultural idiom for anyone incapable of ever smiling again.
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