Priestesses held dominion over aspects of Incan, Assyrian, Babylonian, Slavonic, Roman, Greek, Indian, and Iroquoian religions in the millennia prior to the inception of Patriarchal religion.

Priestesses held dominion over aspects of Incan, Algonquian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Slavonic, Germanic, Roman, Greek, Indian, and Iroquoian religions in the millennia prior to the inception of patriarchal religions.

The Spartan kills Sejanus ' Priestesses, the sources of his power, before finally defeating Sejanus, destroying him for good, while the Spartan army massacres the Roman garrison.

The line up varied over time with other characters such as ' Luci the Stage Slut ', ' The Haema-Whore ', Kali and Erzulie the Sex Magik Priestesses all making appearances.

Starting with this belief the Priests and Priestesses built up the theory of the close correspondence between occurrences on earth and phenomena in the Heavens.

In a fragment of a chronological work of Hellanicus called " Priestesses of Hera at Argos ", and preserved by Stephanus, Makedon is son of Aeolus, as Hellanicus relates in the first ( book or archive list ) of his " Hiereiai tes Heras en Argei ", and of Makedon, the son of Aeolus, the present Macedonians were named so, then living alone with the Mysians .< ref > The fragment does not clarify who of the three Aeoli is Makedon's father but Eustathius reported him as one of the ten sons of Aeolus, thus the son of Hellen.

" All High Priestesses are autonomous.

* The Priestesses are Sejanus's spiritual guides, the means by which he is able to cheat death and his Achilles ' heel to his sorcery.

Gardner was rumored to be homophobic by Lois Bourne, one of the High Priestesses of the Bricket Wood coven: Gerald was homophobic.

Priestesses and priests interpreted the rustling of the oak leaves to determine the correct actions to be taken. The oracle was shared by Dione and Zeus.

Priestesses enjoyed many liberties and rewards for their societal position, such as freedom from taxation, the right to own property and attend public events, a salary and housing provided by the state, a wide range of duties depending on their affiliation, and often gold crowns.

" Priestesses " by Norma Lorre Goodrich

Recent research suggests that the prophesies of the Delphic Oracle were uttered by Priestesses under the influence of gaseous vapors.

* Goodrich, Norma Lorre, Priestesses, New York: F. Watts, 1989.

From the New Forest coven, Gardner formed his own Bricket Wood coven, and in turn initiated many Witches, including a series of High Priestesses, founding further covens and continuing the initiation of more Wiccans into the tradition.

Founding a Wiccan group known as the Bricket Wood coven, he introduced a string of High Priestesses into the religion, including Doreen Valiente, Lois Bourne, Patricia Crowther and Eleanor Bone, through which the Gardnerian community spread throughout Britain and subsequently into Australia and the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Priestesses in antiquity often performed sacred prostitution, and in Ancient Greece, some priestesses such as Pythia, priestess at Delphi, acted as oracles.

Saiin were female relatives of the Japanese emperor ( termed saiō ) who served as High Priestesses in Kamo Shrine.

Priestesses like priests receive a calling from an oracle at any moment of their lives.

* Goodrich, Norma Lorre, Priestesses, New York: F. Watts, ISBN 0-531-15113-1 ( 1989 ); Harper Collins, Perennial, ISBN 0-06-097316-1 ( 1990 )

Priestesses and priests in the sacred grove interpreted the rustling of the oak ( or beech ) leaves to determine the correct actions to be taken.

* Goodrich, Norma Lorre, Priestesses, 1990.

These include Baptism, Confirmation ( into the Laity ), and Ordination ( for Deacons, Priests & Priestesses, and Bishops ), and Last Rites.

* Goodrich, Norma Lorre, Priestesses, 1990.

Priestesses played a major role in the Eleusinian Mysteries.

Women of the Sacred Groves: Divine Priestesses of Okinawa, Oxford University Press, 1999.

The famous Priestesses from Arco have the unique ability to heal battle afflictions and even diseases.

In 1979 she withdrew as high priestess, and now serves as matriarch and advisor to the Council of High Priestesses of the McFarland Dianic Tradition.

Priestesses of Eilistraee have no ceremonial garb ; instead, they aim to wear as little as possible during their official ceremonies.

The Catholic Encyclopedia ( 1909 ) called this confusion a " distortion of the true facts " and suggested that it arose because the " Liber Pontificalis ", which at this point may be registering a reliable tradition, says that this Felix built a church on the Via Aurelia, which is where the Roman martyr of an earlier date was buried.

The first known mention of the word was in the third century AD in a book called Liber Medicinalis ( sometimes known as De Medicina Praecepta Saluberrima ) by Quintus Serenus Sammonicus, physician to the Roman emperor Caracalla, who prescribed that malaria sufferers wear an amulet containing the word written in the form of a triangle:

** Liber ad honorem Augusti by Peter of Eboli, narrative of the conquest of Sicily by Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor ( Latin )

A page of Fibonacci's Liber Abaci from the National Central Library ( Florence ) | Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze showing ( in box on right ) the Fibonacci sequence with the position in the sequence labeled in Roman numerals and the value in Hindu-Arabic numerals.

Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ( 1788 ) summarised the scholarly consensus as being that the Liber Pontificalis was composed by " apostolic librarians and notaries of the viii < sup > th </ sup > and ix < sup > th </ sup > centuries " with only the most recent portion being composed by Anastasius.

The Holy See's Annuario Pontificio, in its list of popes and antipopes, attaches a footnote to its mention of Stephen II ( III ): " On the death of Zachary the Roman priest Stephen was elected ; but, since four days later he died, before his consecratio, which according to the canon law of the time was the true commencement of his pontificate, his name is not registered in the Liber Pontificalis nor in other lists of the Popes.

* Lacus Curtius Website: Liber: Roman book production

The Annuario Pontificio attaches to its mention of Stephen II ( III ) the footnote: " On the death of Zachary the Roman priest Stephen was elected ; but, since four days later he died, before his consecratio, which according to the canon law of the time was the true commencement of his pontificate, his name is not registered in the Liber Pontificalis nor in other lists of the Popes.

Under Pope Clement III and Pope Celestine III he was treasurer of the Roman Church, notably compiling the Liber Censuum, and served as acting Vice-Chancellor of the Holy Roman Church from 1194 until 1198.

According to the Liber Pontificalis, Miltiades was African, although McBrien states he was probably Roman.

The statement of the Liber Pontificalis concerning the pope's martyrdom results obviously from a confusion with a Roman martyr of the same name buried on the Via Aurelia, and over whose grave a church was built.

* Leonardo Fibonacci writes Liber Abaci, about the modus Indorum, the numbering method of India ; it is the first major work in Europe toward moving away from the use of Roman numerals.

The same writer is responsible for a curious and interesting assertion concerning the early missionary activity of the Roman Church ; indeed, the Liber Pontificalis contains no other statement equally remarkable.

It falls before the simple fact that the first part of the Liber Pontificalis was compiled long before these dissensions, most probably ( Duchesne ) by a Roman cleric in the reign of Pope Boniface II ( 530 – 532 ), or ( Waitz and Mommsen ) early in the 7th century.

According to the Liber Pontificalis, he was a Roman, and his father's name was Priscus.

He belonged to an aristocratic Roman family ; his father Johannes is identified as a consul in the Liber pontificalis, having received that title from the emperor.

In ancient Roman religion and mythology, Liber (" the free one "), also known as Liber Pater (" the free Father ") was a god of viticulture and wine, fertility and freedom.

Before his official adoption as a Roman deity, Liber was companion to two different goddesses in two separate, archaic Italian fertility cults ; Ceres, an agricultural and fertility goddess of Rome's Hellenised neighbours, and Libera, who was either Liber's female equivalent or became so through assimilation.

Liber entered Rome's historical tradition soon after the overthrow of the Roman monarchy, the establishment of the Republic and the first of many threatened or actual plebeian secessions from Rome's patrician authority.

In 493 the vow was fulfilled: the new Aventine temple was dedicated and ludi scaenici ( religious dramas ) were held in honour of Liber, for the benefit of the Roman people.

Liber, like his Aventine companions, carried various aspects of his older cults into official Roman religion.

In his conceptual approach to Roman deity, Michael Lipka gives Cacus / Caca as one of the examples of divine pairs differentiated by gender but bound by kinship, as Libera was the sister of Liber and Fauna the daughter, sister, or wife of Faunus.

At some time around 493 BC, soon after the expulsion of Rome's last King and the establishment of the Roman Republic, the Roman senate provided a temple for the so-called Aventine Triad of Ceres, Liber and Libera, patron deities of the Roman commoners or plebs ; the dedication followed one of the first in a long series of threatened or actual plebeian secessions.