Didyma near Ionia in Asia Minor in the domain of the famous city of Miletus.. Oracle at Dodona. Dodona in northwestern Greece was another oracle devoted to the Mother Goddess identified at other sites with Rhea or Gaia, but here called Dione.The shrine of Dodona, set in a grove of oak trees, was the oldest Hellenic oracle, according to the fifth-century historian Herodotus, and …

An oracle was usually a priest or a priestess through whom the gods were supposed to speak or prophesize. In particular: Pythia – served as an oracle in the Temple of Apollo at Delphi.; Oracle bone – a bone used for divination in ancient China.; Nechung Oracle – the state oracle of Tibet.; The term oracle is used figuratively to describe various terms in science and engineering.