Kassandra Was the Greek priestess of Apollo who predicted the downfall of Troy. She would enter visionary states and prophetic verses would fall from her lips, much in the way of the Delphic Oracle. She was considered mad, however, and her warnings went unheeded. War was inevitable and the siege of Troy resulted in that civilisation being wiped out. Though all the men were murdered and the woman sold off to the Greeks as slaves (many others chose suicide rather than enslavement), she and many of the other Trojan women survived. She used perfume and insense in her craft; fire and flame was important to Kassandra as well. |