Both oracles and seers in ancient Greece practiced divination. The Babylonians used incense while offering prayers to divining oracles. The sibyls were oracles in Ancient Greece. These represent an oracle, or a combination of two oracles, of seventy hexameters in all. Even the words of the oracles never turned into a sacred text. Women had religious authority and were active as priestesses ("gydja") and oracles ("sejdkvinna"). Their power could be sustained by witchcraft and oracles. Temples focused more on popular religious activities such as oracles, animal cults, and prayer. He consulted two other local oracles of Amun hoping for a different judgment. Many of his first reported oracles are about, and addressed to, the Israelites at Samaria. Croesus read all the answers brought by his envoys from all the oracles. This island is riddled with the ruins of temples and Oracles. They are characterised by rhythmic movements, songs, oracles and prayers. There is evidence of oracles being present at a number of Antinoan temples. Puzzles, enigmas, oracles; 15.