Editing Dodona (section)

==Description==
During [[classical antiquity]], according to various accounts, priestesses and priests in the sacred grove interpreted the rustling of the oak (or beech) leaves to determine the correct actions to be taken. According to a new interpretation, the oracular sound originated from bronze objects hanging from oak branches and sounded with the wind blowing, similar to a [[wind chime]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Harissis|first=Haralambos|title=A Bronze Wheel from Dodona. The Iynx, the Cauldron and the Music of the Gods|journal=In 'Σπείρα. Επιστημονική Συνάντηση Προς Τιμήν Της Α. Ντούζουγλη Και Του Κ. Ζάχου'. Tapa. Athens. 2017 |url=https://www.academia.edu/2469561}}</ref>

According to [[N. G. L. Hammond|Nicholas Hammond]], Dodona was an [[oracle]] devoted to a [[Mother Goddess]] (identified at other sites with [[Rhea (mythology)|Rhea]] or [[Gaia (mythology)|Gaia]], but here called [[Dione (mythology)|Dione]]) who was joined and partly supplanted in historical times by the [[Greek mythology|Greek]] [[God (male deity)|deity]] [[Zeus]].<ref name=Hammond39>{{harvnb|Hammond|1986|p=39: "...Greek gods too, especially Zeus the sky-god, were at home on Mt. Olympus and in Pieria, and the Zeus of Dodona derived his importance from the Bronze Age when he displaced a Mother Goddess and assimilated her as Aphrodite."}}</ref>