Translation for 'priestess' from English to Russian

priestess

жрица {ж}ист.религ.

• Hyacinth is heartbroken, and by the time Artem is healed enough to go to her she has become a priestess at the temple of Athena, and having become a priestess, under oath, she is unable to leave or to marry.
• When she lived in Athens, she was awarded as a priestess of the goddess Tyche and the venerable, long-established office of priestess of Demeter Chamyne in Olympia, Greece in 153.
• However, there remains significant debate over whether the cult of Athena Nike in its earlier years had its own priestess, no priestess, or if it shared a priestess with a nearby cult.
• The native princess and priestess, Nessa, finds him and cares for him, healing his wounds and coldness of spirit.
• According to one interpretation, DINGIR could also refer to a priest or priestess although there are other Akkadian words "ēnu" and "ēntu" that are also translated priest and priestess.

• Later claims made on behalf of Sargon were that his mother was an "entu" priestess (high priestess).
• On July 19, 2009, 11 women received smicha (ordination) as kohanot from the Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Institute, based at the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center, becoming their first priestess ordainees.
• §22 If the father is living, his daughter whether she be a high priestess, a priestess, or a hierodule shall dwell in his house like an heir.
• The offices of Hierophant, High Priestess, and Dadouchousa priestess were all inherited within the Phileidae or Eumolpidae families, and the Hierophant and the High Priestess were of equal rank.
• The short story "Heart of Goldmoon", written by Laura Hickman and Kate Novak and published in the "Love and War" (1987) recompilation, gives insight about her life after her mother died, explaining that the Que Shu community is built around the figure of a high priestess, and whoever marries the priestess becomes Chieftain of the tribe, with the first daughter of the couple becoming the next priestess.

• Lewis, in his book "Witchcraft today: an encyclopaedia of Wiccan and neopagan traditions", a high priestess becomes a queen when she has successfully hived off her first new coven under a new third-degree high priestess (in the orthodox Gardnerian system).
• In February 2004, the National African Religion Congress sued the producers of "Mad Mad House" saying that it falsely represented Ta'Shia Asanti as a voodoo priestess.
• The chief priest or priestess of Ise Shrine must come from the Imperial House of Japan and is responsible for watching over the Shrine.
• The priestess tells them to choose the sacrifice between Abdullah and certain number of camels by chance and increase the number of the camels by ten if Abdullah is chosen firstly.
• The name of the priestess in this story, Ohila, is similar to Ohica, the name of the High Priestess of the Sisterhood in "The Brain of Morbius", although no direct connection between the two characters is established.

• Neferhetepes was also a Priestess of Hathor, mistress of the sycamore ("hemet-netjer-hut-hor nebet-nehet, ḥmt-nṯr-ḥwt-ḥr nb.t-nht").
• There is at least one named priestess known to us from this region, Carminia Ammia who was priestess of Thea Maeter Adrastos and of Aphrodite.
• Magna held the title of high-priestess of the temple of the ancient Greek Goddess Artemis in Perga, as well as the high-priestess of the imperial cult and the high-priestess for life of the mother of the gods.