The word "priestess" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a female religious leader of a particular faith. For example: "The temple held a special ceremony, attended by the priestess of the local goddess."
She said she'd been abused by Joseph and his wife, who were the high priest and priestess of a satanic cult, and that during her teens she'd had six children – some fathered by Joseph – that she'd been forced to kill.
She was a maibi, a priestess, possessed by a God for the springtime fertility festival of Lai Haraoba.Bringing up the rear was a woman chanting into a microphone, sitting in a cycle-rickshaw rigged with two big speakers.
Plutarch, a historian who was also high priest at the temple of Apollo, in Delphi, describes the sweet-smelling vapours that the priestess who spoke the oracles inhaled in her cubby-hole under the temple.Modern historians are more sceptical.
Their commander, says Mr Mahato, squatting before a poster of Mount Cook with an image of a Hindu priestess pasted onto its snowy summit, will have to perform penitential sit-ups while clutching his ears.A short walk (or 15-minute crawl) away, in the village of Lalgarh, along a road blockaded by a few felled trees, hundreds of state police and central-government paramilitary troops are massing.
"In the 1970s, that made you a bad artist".Sometimes it appears that Ms Abramovic has cast herself in the role of the artist as priestess or shaman.
It is his job to train the new priestess, the Pythia, who in her trances will give voice to the oracles.
She is here as well, but to the untrained eye, she is represented in the classic pose of Virgin and child.My guide, Fanfan Claude, whose grandmother was a mambo, or Vodou priestess, explains gently that there are good and bad spirits.
He encourages the reader to wonder who was the Pythian priestess who interpreted the Delphic oracle, vent or dummy, spirit or medium?
Knowles wore a series of white outfits, including a simple sheath by Humberto Leon for Kenzo, with a regal cape and bronze wrist-guards adding a touch of high-priestess drama.
A sign of its confidence that Schwarz will become the high-priestess of British steampunk is that, launched beside her, is A Sun Also Rises by Mark Hodder, the creator of the Burton & Swinburne series – already a hot ticket on the SFF circuit.
Fifty years on the nonagenarian writer traces its path with hands bent with age up from her stomach past her heart to the top of her head The soon-to-be high-priestess of British steampunk tells Danuta Kean about her plans to redefine the genre Annabel Pitcher's new blackly funny young-adult novel is all about bad decisions.
