Word: priestess
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...cruel Act I setpiece Casta Diva, she has rarely sung as passionately or been so actively involved in the dramatic proceedings. Under Tito Capobianco's ingenious direction, Sutherland clearly dramatized the two sides of Norma's often enigmatic personality-severe and stately as the imperious high priestess of the Druids, yielding, even frantic as a woman in love with, and ready to kill for, a Roman proconsul (Tenor John Alexander...
...rage. I melt. I burn." In these smoldering terms, Germaine Greer, the muliebral but mildly misogamist priestess of Women's Lib, announced in London's Sunday Times that she had fallen in love with an unidentified male. Elaborating on her feelings, she continued: "I also simper and maunder. I am no better than an imbecile. I have collapsed into gaping idiocy. Give me excess of it, that the appetite may sicken and so die. I am treacherous...
...office into resigning. In Chicago, from 75 to 100 otherwise ordinary people ? mostly professionals, such as office managers, nurses, social workers and chemists ? meet weekly in The Temple of the Pagan Way to take instruction in ancient witchcraft and ceremonial magic from a high priest and priestess...
...nude. It begins with a dance, men and women rotating in a circle facing out. "Thout-tout-a-tout-tout," they sing, "throughout and about." The men put their weight only on the toes of their left feet, which gives them a hobbling gait. At a certain moment, the priestess breaks free and guides the others inward in a spiral. When she gets to the center, she kisses the man next to her and begins to unwind the spiral. Each woman then kisses each man, and the spiral opens up into a circle again...
...prayer, to inhabit the bodies of the worshipers, cure them of ailments, and give them personal advice. The worshiper seeks to become a cavalo (horse), inhabited by a spirit, and enter into a semidivine state. In the more African rites, blood from sacrificial goats and chickens is drunk. One priestess customarily breaks a glass and dances on it barefoot with a devotee. In another cult, the priestesses are usually venerated prostitutes...