PENCARIANSibylline Grotto or Cave of the famous astrologer in the portrayal of Virgil has been done in the Middle Ages. If you want to see the cave of mystery and legend that accompanies it, you can come to the city of Naples in Italy. Cave forecasters found in 1932, by archaeologist Amedeo Maiuri, who is responsible for the excavations at Pompeii and Herculaneum for years.
Cave forms show Etruscan civilization. Possible rocks cut by slaves Etruscan cave from the Roman conquest of the 6th century BC, where his time was almost the same as the story Sibylline Books. Parts of the cave has many entrances, although not a hundred like that mentioned in the book. These caves have a high-five meters by 131 meters long, with several side galleries and reservoirs.
Psychic cave very close to the other Roman cave that leads to Lake Avernus, including Crypta Cocceio Romana and the cave in which was a tunnel dug through a mountain to access the lake. All this is literally the entrance into the nuances that reinforce the myth of Southern Italian regions under the soil. Active volcanic areas around Naples known as Campi Flegrei.
While Avernus referred to as the opening to Hades by Virgil, but the holes and islands of volcanic sulfur and aromatic sulfur was also mentioned by the authors as a doorway to hell. The story about the cave forecasters in the book written by Virgil. He is famous for portraying a cave with a hundred doors into the house of one of the most famous female psychic in the ancient legend, forecasters Cumaean.
In chronic Aeneid, Trojan warrior Aeneas adventure, written by Virgil in 19 BC, one of which tells of Aeneas meeting with a mysterious ancient soothsayer. This forecaster is said to live in the mouth of a cave at Cumae, an ancient Greek settlement, near the town now called Naples.
In a poem in the book expressed tedapat, forecasters act as a kind of guide to the underground which leads Aeneas down to seek the advice of Anchises (the father was dead) in order to fulfill his destiny.
Astrologer Cumaean subsequently appeared in the works of Ovid, on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel painted by Michelangelo, in Dante’s Inferno, and in the poetry of TS Elliott.
In his Metamorphosis (book 14), Ovid tells of the sad end of the seer of losing a deal with the god Apollo. Apollo looking for her virginity and then offered to exchange.
Astrologer Cumaean rejected the offer of exchange so that the god Apollo punished him to live a thousand years without eternal youth. When Aeneas saw him, he was seven hundred years old and still a virgin.
Anthropologist della Sibilla or cave forecasters are now part of Cumae Archaeological Site. Sites with interesting legends attached to them can be visited every day when going to Italy.