The city was bristling with activity, traders, merchants, priests and priestesses.
She moved on, stumbling a little in ornate huaraches the priestesses made her wear.
The priestesses and priests turning towards the setting sun, the dwelling of the infernal gods, devoted with curses the sacrilegious wretch.
Then the music stopped and the high priestess appeared followed by the several priestesses who attended her.
Oracles or priestesses in Zra'Thani were beautiful, tall women clothed in the finest of spider silk.
The priests and priestesses in Apollo's house of worship burnt incense and led the morning chant to honour the Sun God.
It was an old fortress that had been turned into a school for young children singled out to become priests and priestesses.
There must be priestesses as well as priests, just as there were in the ancient days.
The royal family ate on the dais, along with the high priests and priestesses.
They were believed to communicate with priests and priestesses at shrines called oracles.
The Pagan Federation, an umbrella group which represents Druids, shamans, witches and high priestesses, is now receiving up to 1000 calls a week.
Some priests and priestesses served for life, others for a set period, usually a year.
I think it's important to anticipate the kinds of needs that may confront us as we emerge as trained priestesses and priests.
The Pythia were priestesses of Apollo who would sit in a tripod or throne over a crevice in the earth.
We assume that we are all goddesses, all priestesses, and all teachers in that we all have our lessons to teach.
To the priests and priestesses of Illi-Tay-Ynnaudraurios, each year was the time from one harvest to the next.
By day, the priests and priestesses performed enactments for people who came to the temple.
It was the great word of power, known only to priestesses initiated into the Mysteries of the gods.
All Witches are priests or priestesses and can command their own rituals, they need no blessing other than from the Gods.
Lesser priests and priestesses serve the shrines of fetishes, minor spirits, and focus on cures and magic charms.
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She may have simply been a priestess, though priestesses often wore dark robes.
Once the ceremony was over, the novitiates, priestesses and nuns gathered together in the great hall beneath the statue of Auset for a feast.
Mashira took one last look at the pitiful heap on the floor, sniffed, and gracefully left the apartments to gather all the priestesses to the inner sanctum.
For most indigenous religions, priests and priestesses are common.
The priestesses and priests became very concerned and knew it was time for some of them to leave if they had any hope of keeping any of their Divine energy intact.
Beyond the hordes of robed priests and priestesses, there were villagers.
Two young women clad in the red robes of Rennon's priestesses carried forth armfuls of flowers, violets and daisies mostly, and cast them into the fire.
Every oracular site was the spokesman of a different God who expressed him or herself through the priestesses of Pythia.
Between them and the army a cadre of priestesses in the gray robes of Elle stood, waiting, and midmost among them was a tall woman with blond hair and direct blue eyes.
In the sacred halls of the Egyptian curing goddess Sekhmet, highly conscious doctor priestesses carried out this religious observance.
The 32 photographs in this show ranged from images of participants in the Haitian Carnival to priests, priestesses, and religious fetishes and shrines in Brazil and Nigeria.
It is most famous for being home to the Pythian oracle, a succession of priestesses whose pronouncements were treated with great respect.
The position of women was inferior, except for the queen and some priestesses.
They were real people, much respected for their gifts of clairvoyance, and the priestesses of the tribe were chosen from among their number.
Keep in mind: Repeated intercourse with Aphrodite's priestesses was a popular method of worshipping this celestial being.
The priestesses are laying her in a stretcher and bringing her to the Tomb.
The priests and priestesses are pious, sanctimonious bastards.
Upon the eternal glacier of the Frost Weaver, the priestesses of the cult of Aryn are guarding the sleep of the great Winter Dragon.
His house had become a true laboratory of Satan, controlled by three great voodoo priestesses.
The priests and priestesses chant and perform ritual dances to entreat the divinity to award the battle to Radames.
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Well-known priestesses can trace the origins of their ancestors back to Africa, and enjoy a high social status.
These dancing priestesses of the sun serve the spirits of the desert and protect the secrets of the glowing land with their extraordinary fighting skills.
There were many women in the Tang era who gained access to religious authority by taking vows as Daoist priestesses.
Lineaged Wicca is organised into covens of initiated priests and priestesses.
Priests and priestesses revered Cybelus as he passed through Corinth in procession in a trance uttering incoherences to the sound of drums, cymbals and trumpets.
This kind of therapeutic method was practiced in the ancient times for a period of several days by the Hemet Netjer, who were high priestesses, known as the Pures.
In ancient Rome, the vestal virgin priestesses were required to keep their hymens — whether annular or crescentic — intact during their 30 years of service.
This matriarchal society is governed by high priestesses who worship the goddess, Nyx and perform pagan rituals.
Even before the state started doling out money, Tinseltown was fairly partial to voodoo priestesses, angsty vampires, bayous, baffling accents, wily Cajuns and the rest of the Louisiana Gothic backdrop.
When Charlotte Brontë's love letters to her Belgian teacher were published in 1913, Sinclair was devastated: she had wanted the Brontës to be virgin priestesses of art.
Together with priestesses, they celebrated the Great Mother's rites with wild music and dancing until their frenzied excitement found its culmination in self-scourging, self-laceration, or exhaustion.
Its cultural, public and deeply spiritual sources go back to ceremonies and the dances celebrated with priestesses and other ballerinas in places of a cult of the former Egypt.
Sensitive as he is to the latter, it occurs to him to choose between the priestesses according to the perfume each one wears, evoking as though by magic the entire territory of the Inca people.
I stayed for a long time amazed by the magic rituals and colourful decorations shaped by women and priestesses to deceive the gods and thus attract happiness and bliss in Asia.
One by one the priests came by and kissed my lips: one by one the priestesses came by, and gave me the secret clasp of hands that hath hidden virtue.
However, they shared the lesser god Animal Luna, as well as a notable recognition of women within the religion in their role as priestesses and shamans.
Also the wine was spring water only, but so consecrated by the holy priestesses that one glass was more intoxicating that a whole skin of common wine.
Aged women, priestesses, dressed in white sacrificed the prisoners of war and sprinkled their blood, the nature of which allowed them to see what was to come.
In front of the ancient ruins of the Temple of Hera, an actress playing as a high priestesses lit the Olympic flame by the rays of the sun in a parabolic mirror.
Germanic priestesses were feared by the Romans, as these tall women with glaring eyes, wearing flowing white gowns often wielded a knife for sacrificial offerings.
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Priests and Priestesses alike don't need runes to cast magic.
The Wiccan Rede was most likely introduced into Wicca by Gerald Gardner and formalised publicly by Doreen Valiente, one of his High Priestesses.

In the temple to them, which Lesbos became, the freedom of Erato was almost of necessity accorded to her priestesses.
Hence will it tend to dissensualise its nature into fantastic passions, the idolatry of Paphian priestesses.
Priests and priestesses may also follow, unless the Pythian oracle forbids.

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