Why “chresmologue” is a great word
A compiler or collector of oracles. From Ancient Greek χρησμολόγος (khrēsmológos), from χρησμός (khrēsmós, 'oracle') and -λόγος (-lógos, 'collector, speaker'). Unlike a prophet, who channels a new divine message, or an oracle, the sacred vessel of the utterance itself, the chresmologue is the archivist of the already-spoken: the scholar in the lamplit scriptorium cross-referencing cryptic pronouncements, the traveling antiquarian gathering soot-stained tablets, the curator assembling a library of possible futures from divine echoes. He is the quiet witness to the fact that while gods may speak, it is left to mortals to make a record of what was said, and to hold the ashes of a fire that once illuminated the future.