These doleful prophecies, coupled with his very public loathing of monetarism, earned him no friends in government and the grant for his forecasting group at Cambridge was abruptly stopped in 1982.
These same surviving Mayans were the same people debunking doomsday prophecies and insisted that the calendar meant a new age, not the end of the world.
If Oedipus had laughed off the prophecy that he would kill his father and marry his mother, instead of completely freaking out about it, he would have never left for Thebes and made the prophecy come true.
She's most famous for her time spent among the Native American tribes of the American southwest, but her story begins much earlier than that: with visions, prophecy, and religious fervor.
However, we will say that The Libation Bearers is part of a trilogy of tragedies, featuring a boy who fulfils his prophecy by avenging his father's death (and also happens to have a scar on his head).