What is the first part of Punxsutawney Phil's official title?

What is the first part of Punxsutawney Phil’s official title? Seer of Seers.

“Seer of Seers” begins Punxsutawney Phil’s famously grand official title. The full ceremonial style continues “Sage of Sages, Prognosticator of Prognosticators, and Weather Prophet Extraordinary,” making the short answer a distinctive and canonical part of the name rather than a generic description.

Phil’s celebrity grew from the Groundhog Club tradition in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. Local newspaper editor Clymer Freas helped promote the first organized Groundhog Day observance at Gobbler’s Knob in 1887, building on the older Candlemas weather lore brought by German immigrants.

A common mix-up is to treat “prognosticator” as the opening phrase because it appears prominently later in the title. Another is to assume that Phil personally announces a scientific forecast. The event is folklore: members of the Groundhog Club’s Inner Circle interpret the ceremony, while Phil’s shadow is said to signal either an early spring or six additional weeks of winter.