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priestess and Artemis
Hesiod and Stesichorus tell the story according to which after her death Iphigenia was divinised under the name of Hecate, fact which would support the assumption that Artemis Tauropolos had a real ancient alliance with the heroine, who was her priestess in Taurid and her human paragon.
She jumped aboard the ship soon after the expedition set out, invoking the protection of Artemis, whose virgin priestess she was.
The priestess of Artemis is Iphigenia, and it is her duty to perform the sacrifice.
Iphigenia is by Athena sent to the sanctuary of Artemis in Brauron where she is to be the priestess until she dies there.
" The goddess swept the young princess off to Tauris where she became a priestess at the Temple of Artemis.
" The priestess of Artemis, whose duty it was to perform the sacrifice, was Orestes ' sister Iphigeneia.
Artemis, however, had instantly switched Iphigenia, as she lay upon the altar, with another deer without anyone noticing, and had taken her to distant Colchis, there to be her priestess.
Some reptilian attributes such as a belt made of snakes and snakes emanating from the head or entwined in the hair, as in the temple of Artemis in Corfu, are symbols likely derived from the guardians closely associated with early Greek religious concepts at the centers such as Delphi where the dragon Delphyne lived and the priestess Pythia delivered oracles.
* A beautiful girl of Patrae who served as priestess in the temple of Artemis Triclaria and was in love with Melanippus.
Melanippus and Comaetho met secretly in the temple of Artemis, where the girl served as priestess, and had sex there.
In Plutarch's On the Bravery of Women, Camma was a Galatian princess and priestess of Artemis.
She has since been made a priestess at the temple of Artemis in Tauris, a position in which she has the gruesome task of ritually sacrificing foreigners who land on King Thoas's shores.
She wants to inform them that, thanks to the miraculous swap performed by Artemis, she is still alive and wants to return to her homeland, leaving the role of high priestess to someone else.
She recounts her " sacrifice " at the hands of Agamemnon, and how she was saved by Artemis and made priestess in this temple.

priestess and whose
The myth explains the connection of Apollo with δάφνη ( daphnē ), the laurel whose leaves his priestess employed at Delphi.
Bò is an occult science whose priest are called Bòkônon or Bòkôtônon in opposition to vodunsi ( vodun female priestess ) and vodunon ( vodun male priest ).
Guybrush meets several characters of interest, including a local voodoo priestess, Stan the Used Boat Salesman, a prisoner named Otis, and Meathook, whose hands have been replaced by hooks.
" Writing in The Spectator in 2006, author and journalist Leo McKinstry described her as " the high priestess of Tory sleaze ," whose actions helped to " undermine the reputation of the Conservative party in the 1990s and pave the way for the arrival of Tony Blair.
They dwelt on lofty mountains covered with forests and snow, and on the highest of these was an oracle of Dionysus, whose utterances were delivered by a priestess.
Mystra, seeking to keep the child alive, came upon a pregnant drow priestess of Eilistraee whose child had died in her womb, and made a pact with Eilistraee that served both their intentions.
;: An arrogant Org priestess whose magic is as great as her devotion to the Highnesses.
As Theseus enters Eleusis, he is halted on the road by the 27-year-old Eleusinian Queen, who is the priestess for the mother goddess and whose sacred name is Persephone.
The 1990s adventure game Conquests of the Longbow: The Legend of Robin Hood depicts Maid Marian as a forest priestess whose duties include, among other things, a one-person spiral dance.
The people — women, very young men, and little children — have turned against old priestess Le Juan, who has terrorized them for so many years and whose advice had sent all the warriors to die on Palm Tree.

priestess and duty
To you, however, since you have rebuilt the city's foundations, I grant the duty of bringing in the preliminary fire-sacrifices for the city, and to be called my priestess.
Various characters assume the title of the Lady, including Viviane, Niniane, Morgan le Fay ( called " Morgaine " in this version ), and Nimue, a sympathetic and tragic young priestess who falls in love with the Merlin but is duty bound to seduce and lure him to his death – following which she drowns herself.
The alternate identity of, a teenage Japanese schoolgirl and Shinto priestess, she belongs to the Sailor Senshi, female supernatural fighters who the franchise's main girl characters transform into to fulfill their duty of protecting the Solar System and the franchise's eponymous protagonist from evil.

priestess and was
Creusa left Ion to die in the wild, but Apollo asked Hermes to save the child and bring him to the oracle at Delphi, where he was raised by a priestess.
Agrippina was named a priestess of the cult of the deified Claudius.
Sargon was claimed to be the son of La ' ibum or Itti-Bel, a humble gardener, and possibly a hierodule, or priestess to Ishtar or Inanna.
He called himself " The anointed priest of Anu " and " the great ensi of Enlil " and his daughter, Enheduanna, was installed as priestess to Nanna at the temple in Ur.
One strategy adopted by both Sargon and Naram-Sin, to maintain control of the country, was to install their daughters, Enheduanna and Emmenanna respectively, as high priestess to Sin, the Akkadian version of the Sumerian moon deity, Nanna, at Ur, in the extreme south of Sumer ; to install sons as provincial ensi governors in strategic locations ; and to marry their daughters to rulers of peripheral parts of the Empire ( Urkesh and Marhashe ).
As poetess, princess, and priestess, she was a personality who, according to William W Hallo, " set standards in all three of her roles for many succeeding centuries "
According to the Bibliotheca, no one had realised that Ajax had raped Cassandra until Calchas, the Greek seer, warned the Greeks that Athena was furious at the treatment of her priestess and she would destroy the Greek ships if they didn't kill him immediately.
Apollo spoke through his oracle: the sibyl or priestess of the oracle at Delphi was known as the Pythia ; she had to be an older woman of blameless life chosen from among the peasants of the area.
Cydippe, a priestess of Hera, was on her way to a festival in the goddess ' honor.
" In Simpson v. Chesterfield County Board of Supervisors, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the Supreme Court's holding in the Marsh case meant that the " Chesterfield County could constitutionally exclude Cynthia Simpson, a Wiccan priestess, from leading its legislative prayers, because her faith was not ' in the Judeo-Christian tradition.
The prominent Wiccan priestess Starhawk related that a core part of goddess-centred pagan witchcraft was " the understanding that all being is interrelated, that we are all linked with the cosmos as parts of one living organism.
" Further support for Adler's idea came from American Wiccan priestess Judy Harrow, who noted that amongst her comrades, there was a feeling that " you don't become pagan, you discover that you always were.
The temple was changed to a center for the worship of Apollo during the classical period of Greece and priests were added to the temple organization — although the tradition regarding prophecy remained unchanged — and the apparently always-female priestess continued to provide the services of the oracle exclusively.
After the query was submitted, several days of prescribed ceremonial had to be observed before Apollo was so satisfied as to speak through his priestess, which gave the priests precious time for research.
The feminine English noun, priestess, was coined in the 17th century, to refer to female priests of the pre-Christian religions of classical antiquity.
* Puabi of Ur was a Semitic Akkadian queen or a priestess.
* The Pythia was the title of a priestess at the very ancient temple of Delphi that was dedicated to the Earth Mother.
The priestess retained her role when the temple was rededicated to Apollo, giving her a prominence unusual for a woman in the male-dominated culture of classical Greece.
* Phrygian Sibyl was the priestess presiding over an Apollonian oracle at Phrygia, a historical kingdom in the Anatolian highlands.
From a Phoenician inscription on its lid, it appears that he was a " king of the Sidonians ," probably in the 5th century BCE, and that his mother was a priestess of ‘ Ashtart, " the goddess of the Sidonians.

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