These bones were also sometimes used for oracular and divinatory functions. The Samian sibyl's oracular site was at Samos. Themis built the Oracle at Delphi and was herself oracular. Oracular shrines and sanctuaries were still popular. Themis inspired him to be the oracular voice of Delphi thereon. Marcus Terentius Varro asserted that the oracular responses were given in Saturnian verse. Inscriptions from Assurbanipal record oracular dreams inspired by Ishtar of Erbil. It seems an oracular cult existed in Delphi from the Mycenaean age. He thought that because women have kalas, they have oracular and visionary powers. Boeotia was also notable for the ancient oracular shrine of Trophonius at Lebadea. Maya ritual included the use of hallucinogens for "chilan", oracular priests. An oracular sanctuary existed near Thalamai in Laconia. Oracular sanctuaries to Apollo were established in other sites. The Sibylline Books were a collection of oracular sayings. Anbay was an oracular god of Qataban and also the spokesman of Amm.