There werepriestesses whom they called babailanes or catalonas.
The bailanas are, as it were, the priestesses of the Mandayas.
But the black and coloured mist before his eyes revealed no human figure, not even that of the woman he loved, who, he now learned for the first time from her father, had appeared among the priestesses of Demeter to greet him.
That it was Demeter, to the ranks of whose priestesses she belonged, who was so closely associated with his blinding, also seemed to her no mere work of chance.
The spirits of dead chiefs had priestesses to wait upon them, who were called the "wives of the departed.
The Khasis of Assam have mother-kin, and among them goddesses predominate over gods and priestesses over priests.
Priestesses assist at all sacrifices, and the male officiants are only their deputies; in one important state, Khyrim, the High Priestess and actual head of the State is a woman, who combines in her person sacerdotal and regal functions.
The priestesses of Delphic Apollo, Achaian Juno, and Scythian Diana were virgins.
Their office as priestesses probably marks a step downward from their outdoor equality.
Hexe (witch) is from hag (forest): the priestesses who carried the Broom of Thor were called Hagdissen.
By this route, as priestesses of diabolised deities, they became witches; but many folk-legends made these witches still great riders, and the Devil was said to transform and ride them as dapplegrey mares.
The maidens who had come upon the scene with Dalila (are they priestesses of Dagon?
None were admitted to initiation in the greater mysteries without a strict inquiry into their moral character; as none but the chastest matrons were allowed to be priestesses of Ceres.
Rica is a covering for the head, such as priestesses used to wear at sacrifices, generally of purple, square, with a border or fringe; cf.
It will be remembered that Elissa had explained to the prince how, on the death of the lady Baaltis, another woman was elected by the colleges of the priests and priestesses to fill her place.
I am Mesa, the daughter of her who was the lady Baaltis," she answered, "and my rank is that of Mother of the priestesses of Baaltis.
Then, before either of them could speak a word, at a sign from the Shadid, the priestesses closed round Elissa.
After the priests came a second procession, that of the priestesses of Baaltis.
To each he made some apt reply, for even the priestesses of Baaltis could not abash Metem.
Then moved by a common impulse, with curses and yells of fury, the priests and priestesses sprang from their seats and hurled themselves upon Issachar, who stood awaiting them with folded arms.
When they entered, the companies of priests and priestesses were finishing a prayer, the sentences of which they chanted alternately with strange effect.
That is the story, and if I do not believe it, this at least is true, that the priestesses fled fast from the secret chamber of death, for I met them as they ran shrieking in their terror and tearing at their robes.
Another is chosen by the college of the priests of El, and the company of the priestesses of Baaltis.
In the same way we read of the negroes of the Caribbean islands that "their priests and priestesses exercise an almost unlimited power.
Another account says that twopriestesses were carried off from Thebes in Egypt by the Phoenicians, and set up oracles at Dodona and the Libyan Oasis.
Therefore the priestesses usually died, as they had lived, in the service of the goddess.
The priest and priestesses at this period presented a most strange spectacle.
Seven quids of betel nuts are placed by one of the family priestesses upon a sacred dish.
Then one of the priestesses placed a little resin upon a piece of bamboo and, calling for a firebrand, placed it upon the resin.
The priestesses recovered from their furious possession after a few minutes, but not so the male priest, for to prevent himself from collapsing completely he clutched a near-by tree, shading his eyes with his bloodstained hand.
In turn the other priestesses fell under the influence of their special divinities and gave utterance to long accounts of what had passed between them.
All three danced for some five minutes until, as if by previous understanding, the gong and drum ceased, and one of the priestesses broke out into the invocation.
Hence, during the average "wake" the womenfolk huddle around the priestesses with many a startled glance.
One of the female priestesses at once placed an iron cooking pan under the pig and caught the blood as it streamed out from the lower opening of the wound.
Neither party seemed willing to take the risk so the arrowmen plied their arrows, the priestesses in the houses continued their invocations, and everybody howled challenges and imprecations at everybody else.
One of the priestesses then performed blood lustration by anointing the patient's forehead with the remainder of the blood.
These are the báilan or priests and priestessesof Manóboland.
The religious part of the celebration was then abandoned, for the priestesses took no further part.
After an interval of some 10 minutes the sacred dance was continued, the priestesses circling and sweeping around with their palm branches waving up and down as they swung their arms in graceful movements through the air.
The priestesses of the attacked party may go through a regular sacrifice if there is a chicken or a pig in the house, beseeching their deities to protect them in this the hour of danger.
In every case one or more priestesses are present, and take the usual precautions, such as the placing of lemon and sasá reed under the house, against the approach of evil spirits.
There were priestesses of Ceres and of Venus, but the sanctuary of Ceres has not been discovered.
Mention is made of priestesses, too, a priestess of Ceres and Venus, priestesses of Ceres, and others, the divinities of whom are not named.
And then look at the price we are paying in what the devil calls 'the priestesses of society' for the tranquillity of the demon of lust!
It consisted for the greater part of persons who are generally thought to be beyond the sympathies of life--the "priestesses of society," who are the lowest among women.
As the priestesses in the performance of the sacred ceremonies might not touch the ground, planks were cut from a fruit-tree and laid on the ground for them to step on.
Eleusis and the Treasurers of the Two Goddesses, the amounts of corn handed over by these officers to the priests and priestesses for the purposes of the games is exactly specified.
Afterwards the priestesses lay offerings of food, wrapt in banana-leaves, here and there on the holy field, while they croon prayers to the spirits in soft tones, which are half drowned in the clashing music of the gongs.
Five days later eight priestesses ascended a sacrificial stage, on which food was daily set forth for the spirits.
Then a basket containing offerings of food was handed up to them, and one of the priestesses opened it and invited the spirits to enter the basket.
The ceremony ends with several of the oldest priestesses falling, or pretending to fall, senseless to the ground, where, till they come to themselves, their heads are supported and their faces fanned by their younger colleagues.
By their gesticulations the priestesses indicated to the powers above that the pigs were intended for their benefit.
Of priestesses there will be; only listen carefully.
Take off those long robes, therefore, which become priestesses guarding fire, and array thyself in transparent muslin, as Phoenician dancers do.
Their man-eating gods do not eat, and their lewdness is guarded by virgin priestesses and by a goddess with an innocent face.
On the pavement of the hall stood a throng of priests and priestesses who, while waiting for the solemnity, conversed about indifferent subjects.
The priestesses are for priests, not for foreigners.
Meanwhile the priests sang wedding hymns and bore the statue of the divine Isis through the whole house; and priestesses performed sacred dances.
Again sounded trumpets, thunder, and plates; among the priests and priestesses an uproar began, then shouting and curses.
Three times the wondrous song and answer are repeated, after which the priestessesperform a sacred dance around the altar.
A rank of exultant, black-bearded priests now appeared at the head of the stairway, then a quartet of olive skinned, semi-naked priestesses joyfully clashing brass cymbals.
These priestesses swung golden censers which flung bluish clouds of aromatic smoke high into the humid air above.
Garcilasso's account of the Peruvian priestesses of fire, ii.
Poso, a district of Central Celebes, inspired priestesses in, i.
Tengaroeng in Borneo, swinging of priests and priestesses as a mode of inspiration at, iv.
Pig's blood drunk by priests and priestesses as a means of inspiration, i.
The priestesses who had charge of the fire were selected for this purpose when they were children.
Though the laws however permitted this, there was a public sentiment against it, and it was seldom that any of the vestal priestesses availed themselves of the privilege.
The development of the rôle of women as representatives of deities is illustrated by the character of the priestesses of oracular shrines.
Admitted into the temple at the early age of six, they were compelled to serve ten years in fitting themselves to fulfill the duties they would be called upon to perform during the next decade as priestesses and guardians of the sacred fire.
In turn, each of the priestesses watched the fire, renewed the fuel, and fanned the flame, nor lost sight of it night or day; for the Romans considered the extinction of this sacred flame the precursor of some great public calamity.
There werepriestesses in Babylonia as well as priests.
Scheil is right in his translation of the Sumerian words, the kings of Ur, before the days of Abraham, made their daughters high-priestesses of foreign lands.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "priestesses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
