Built around a sacred spring, Delphi was considered to be the omphalos - the center (literally navel) of the world. People came ... answered by the Pythia, the priestess of Apollo.

In her right hand, the female figure holds laurel leaves, which Roman priestesses and priests once used to purify spaces.

She spices up this instantly recognizable new-age folk with oriental, Arabic and Indian spices brought back from her peregrinations around the world. Since her debut album “Elemental” (1985 ...

OLYMPIA, GREECE - NOVEMBER 27: Greek athlete Costas Fillipidis, the first torchbearer, recives the flame from ActressTheodora Siarkou, who plays the role of high priestess, during the Ceremony of ...

A life-sized statue has been discovered in Pompeii of an ancient Roman woman thought to have been a priestess in a fertility ... politics in the ancient Roman world so the way they could make ...