Delphi

In myths, the site of Delphi (Δελφοί) was believed to be the center of the "Earth" ("Gaia"), grandmother of Zeus. People consulted the Delphic oracle Pythia (always a woman), on everything from important matters of public policy to personal affairs. The Pythia and priests of Apollo's temple kept very detailed records of their visitors, kind of like an ancient database. Delphi was originally one of many codenames of a pre-release development tool project at Borland. Borland developer Danny Thorpe suggested Delphi as a codename in reference to the Oracle of Delphi. One of the design goals of the product was to provide database connectivity to programmers as a key feature and a popular database package at the time was Oracle database; hence, "If you want to talk to [the] Oracle, go to Delphi".