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Fabylon Delfi
Offline Greek oracles for questions worth sitting with
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Offline Greek oracles for questions worth sitting with
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Bring a question worthy of silence. Delfi brings Greek knucklebone casts, bird signs, the speaking oak of Dodona and a chamber for your own writing to desktop and Android. Ancient sources, reconstruction and contemporary invention are clearly distinguished. Oracles work offline in eight languages. Free to begin; optional paid features.
Hello, I'm Martijn, the maker of Delfi.
I wanted to make software with a threshold: something you enter with a question and leave with a different way of looking. That led me to Greek sanctuary lots, knucklebones, bird signs and the speaking oak of Dodona.
Delfi gives each room its own ritual and symbolic vocabulary. It also makes the historical boundary explicit: attested sources, reconstruction and contemporary creation are labelled separately. Mykēs, for example, is a contemporary mushroom oracle, not a claim about an ancient Greek practice.
For writers, the Adyton offers an encounter with a passage of your own work. The oracle rooms run offline in eight languages. You can begin for free; Anuzia and other extras are optional paid features. The film and screenshots include unlocked features.
I'd particularly value feedback from people who care about interaction design, mythology or writing: does the ritual help you formulate a more precise question? Where does the interface invite attention, and where does it get in the way?
Bring a question worthy of silence.
A launch-day addition for writers: I've opened Writing at the Threshold, a free six-lesson course that takes an observation towards a revised poem or scene.
Try the first move now: put an ordinary object on a table. Let someone refuse to touch it. Write what happens next.
The course includes worked examples, timed exercises and a downloadable workbook. Delfi is an optional companion; every exercise also works on paper. No account or purchase is needed.
https://delfi-writing-at-the-thr...
If you try an exercise, I'd be interested in where the constraint opens a possibility in your writing and where it feels too narrow.