Ancient Greece's most famous oracle was just high on gas fumes The Oracle of Delphi, also known as the Pythia, likely inhaled ethylene to enter her famous trance.

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Ancient Greece’s most famous oracle was just high on gas fumes
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Spiller found many parallels between the altered state of mind produced by ethylene inhalation and ancient accounts ...