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Updated: May 14, 2025
The other dove flew to the Oasis of Jupiter Ammon. There were three priestesses at Dodona in the days of Herodotus. Their names were Promenea, Timarete, and Nicandre. The answers of the oracle were, for a time, obtained by the priestesses from some appearances which they observed in the sacred beech on which the dove alighted, when the tree was agitated by the wind.
The seers explained that this appearance corroborated the dream of the priestesses, and that the light from heaven showed that the two goddesses were joining the expedition; for Sicily is sacred to Proserpine, as the myth tells us that she was carried off there, and that the island itself was given her as a wedding present.
It came out by itself, as the spout of a teapot had once come off by itself in her hand. The accident policy appeared to provide for every emergency except measles. The sick-room all due solemnity and importance must be imported into the significance of that word the sick-room became a shrine, served by two ageing priestesses and a naïve acolyte.
The plan had proved successful, it seemed; he was evidently fascinated, and Herodias felt that at last she was sure of retaining her power over him! And now the graceful dancer appeared transported with the very delirium of love and passion. She danced like the priestesses of India, like the Nubians of the cataracts, or like the Bacchantes of Lydia.
Situation of Delphi. The gaseous vapor. The priestess. The sacred tripod. The oracle of Dodona. The two black doves. The priestesses of Dodona. Manner of obtaining responses. The great brazen caldron. The Oasis of Jupiter Ammon. Discovery of the Oasis of Jupiter Ammon. Other oracles. Mode of consulting the oracle. Mystic ceremonies. Croesus puts the oracle to the test. Manner of doing it.
At the Jin-Gi-Kuan there were assembled the ministers of state, the functionaries of that office, the priests and priestesses of 573 temples, containing 737 shrines, which were kept up at the expense of the Mikado's treasury, while the governors of the provinces superintended in the districts under their administration the performance of rites in honor of 2,395 other shrines.
Although the creative principle was adored under its representatives, the Yoni and the Lingham, still the principal object seems to have been, when administering the rites pertaining to the worship of Cybele, to ignore sex and the usual sex distinctions; hence we find that, in order to assume an androgynous appearance, the priestesses of this Goddess officiated in the costumes of males, while priests appeared in the dress peculiar to females.
But above them all above the shadow of coming death, fear of the future, anxiety in the present rose one thought the thought of her husband. It gave her no pain it gave her no joy yet there it was, a visible image sitting strong and calm in the half-lighted chamber of her heart, every feeling of which crept to its feet and lay there, like priestesses in the twilight before a veiled god.
The priestesses of this temple were known in the Latin as Columbae. It is from this word that we derive the name Columbine, which means, in the Italian, "little dove." Nonnus speaks of Cadmus, and others of Orpheus, as introducing into Greece the rites of Dionysus or Bacchus.
The queens were the high priestesses of the god, and he was the divine father of their children; the kings being only incarnations of Amon in their relation to the queens. +Mut+, the great mother, was the goddess of Thebes, and hence the consort of Amon. She is often shown as leading and protecting the kings, and the queens appear in the character of this goddess.
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