| The Sybille |
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The name of Sybille indicates a feminine figure linked with mysterious pagan rites, useful for knights who wanted to know something about their future... The legend tells us that once upon a time there was a mystic condemned by God to remain until the end of the world under the mountain. Her sin was her haughtiness, for she wished to be mother to Jesus Christ rather than Mary. Under the mountain Sybille accumulated a hoard of treasures, controlled by dragons and also by fairies, who should capture all the nights promising a lascivious life... The legend of the Sybille has been narrated by Antoine de la Salle in his “Le Paradis de la Sybille” (1420) where he describes a cave where many knights lost their lives during the Medieval Age... But also the roman author Svetonius (69 b.C.) wrote that even the Roman emperor Vitellius, after a battle, arrived in Rome passing through the Sibillini Mountains looking for the response of the Sybille.
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