Proper noun
Tiresias
(Greek mythology) A long-lived blind soothsayer who participated over seven generations in the legendary history of (the Greek city) Thebes, noted also for being transformed into a woman for seven years, so being symbolic of androgyny.
After seven years as a woman, Tiresias again found mating snakes, struck them with her staff, and became a man once more. Source: Internet
An alternative and less commonly told story has it that Tiresias was blinded by Athena after he stumbled onto her bathing naked. Source: Internet
One day in the hills I found Tiresias the seer, blindly watching the flight of passing gulls. Source: Internet
When Amphitryon finally returned to Thebes, Alcmene told him that he had come the night before and slept with her; he learned from Tiresias what Zeus had done. Source: Internet
Guided by Circe's instructions, Odysseus and his crew cross the ocean and reach a harbor at the western edge of the world, where Odysseus sacrifices to the dead and summons the spirit of the old prophet Tiresias to advise him. Source: Internet
He wishes to invoke and question the shade of Tiresias in particular; however, he is unable to summon the seer's spirit without the assistance of others. Source: Internet