sibyl

It was deemed a line straight to God — staggering, the voice of an enchantress, a sibyl, a siren.

Why did he go to so much trouble when the finished sibyl is mostly clothed and must be viewed from a considerable distance below?

But not even a sibyl could have made sense of those tiny scraps of paper.

Since the mid-1980s, Ms. Cook has reigned as a kind of sibyl channeling the wisdom and humanity of the American songbook, particularly as embodied in the work of Stephen Sondheim.

“A sibyl of a medieval nun. She has guided my life.”