0 mysterious and difficult to understand, but probably wise:
an oracular statement
The existence of multiple oracular sources of legitimacy meant that a claim of divine right could always be challenged.
A case is made that the masks originally served as the faces of oracular mortuary bundles.
To say culturally that they are created by divine fiat, means socially that they are created through the politics of temple control and oracular readings.
Other oracular deities took a little more time to administer punishment.
This pattern establishes a symbol of open, multilayered space and a solemnity suitable to the poem's oracular delivery.
Headrick could have made it possible for one individual, or a small group of individuals, to easily control admittance to the oracular mor tuarybundle ancestors.
Such a constellation of traits suggests that the statue personified oracular powers, the propitiation of which required covenants with humans in the form of prayers and offerings.
Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities : it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed edifice might collapse.
