Priestesses Pythonesses Sibyls
Edited by Sorita d’Este
Priestesses Pythonesses Sibyls lifts a veil to reveal the mystery of trance as experienced by female magickal practitioners today. This anthology contains more than twenty essays providing unique and personal transformative experiences of trance from different spiritual paths including Goddess Spirituality, Thelema, Wicca, Seidr, & Candomble. This book contains essays by some of the foremost Priestesses of the Pagan and Magical Revival today, we recommend it to all women (and men!) who want to learn about Trance, Mediumship or who simply wish to explore Priesthood!
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“Women have long been spiritual leaders, they have served and continue to serve their communities all around the world, spanning cultures and tribes, as the divine voices of the spirits of the land, the Gods and Goddesses of their ancestral people and of their adopted lands.”
Priestesses Pythonesses Sibyls lifts a veil to reveal the mystery of trance as experienced by female magickal practitioners today. Through happiness and sorrow, myth and legend, art and poetry, through ritual and dance each woman expresses her own unique and personal transformative experiences of trance. Whether through trance possession, mediumship, Drawing Down the Moon, oracular or mantic states, dance, dreams or formal ceremony the experiences and knowledge gained during trance states can bring dramatic changes to one’s life. The practices represented in this volume are drawn from the experiences and research of more than twenty women from around the world, each providing a unique vision of their own experiences of the Divine.
The book begins with “Ecstatic Histories” a section of three scholarly essays. The first, Mantic Voices by Sorita d’Este provides an overview of the role of mantic priestesses in the major oracles of the ancient world, with a consideration of the resurgence of the role of the priestess in the modern Western magickal traditions. This is followed by Caroline Tully’s The Pythia exploring the history and role of the Oracle at Delphi and Kim Huggens’ Silent Priestesses which looks at female priests and prophetesses in early Christianity.
Then in “Sacred Utterances”, the second part of this anthology, eighteen modern day Priestesses, Pythonesses and Sibyls share their own personal experiences, wisdom and research on the practice of trance. These women come from a wide spectrum of magickal and pagan traditions, including Goddess Spirituality, the Western Mystery Tradition, Thelema, Wicca, Candomble, Voudou and Seidr. Sharing, sometimes for the first time, deep spiritual experiences and insights gained through the work they have performed as Priestesses serving in their own unique way, they provide the reader with insights into their practices which could not be found anywhere else.
Unique, powerful and insightful, this book expresses the liminal world of trance in an accessible way for the first time.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
FOREWORD BY SORITA D’ESTE
Ecstatic Histories
MANTIC VOICES
PRIESTESSES WHO SPEAK WITH AND FOR THE GODS BY SORITA D’ESTE
THE PYTHIA
OF APOLLO IN DELPHI BY CAROLINE TULLY
SILENT PRIESTESSES
WOMEN OF POWER IN EARLY CHRISTIANITY BY KIM HUGGENS
Sacred Utterances
THE MANTLE OF ISIS
THE SOUL OF A PRIESTESS BY NAOMI OZANIEC
PRIESTESS OF AVALON
THE MANIFESTATION OF INSPIRATION BY JACQUI WOODWARD-SMITH
WAKING THE GODS:
OUR ODYSSEY INTO TRANCE-PROPHECY BY JANET FARRAR
THE SEER
A JOURNEY THROUGH THE HIGH SEAT BY KATIE GERRARD
GNOSTIC PRIESTESS
IN THE ECCLESIA GNOSTICA CATHOLICA BY CATHRYN ORCHARD
THE PATH OF A PRIESTESS
A JOURNEY OF MYSTERY BY VIVIENNE O’REGAN
POSSESSION & DREAMWORK
IN HAITIAN VOUDOU BY SOPHIA FISHER
OGUN’S DANCE
TRANCE WITHIN CANDOMBLE BY ANDREA SALGADO-REYES
SEEING THE TRUTH
TRANSFIGURATION AND TRANCE BY KAY GILLARD
THE REPUBLIC OF HEAVEN ON EARTH
TRANCE, GENDER AND CHOICES BY YVONNE ABURROW
DREAMING WITH THE GODS
SACRED STORY TIME BY CONNIA SILVER
IN THE MOMENT
EXPERIENCING THE GODDESS BY SORRELL COCHRANE
DANCING THE DREAM
BECOMING THE DANCE BY MARIËLLE HOLMAN
THE ORACULAR EXPERIENCE
TRANSMITTING THE WISDOM OF THE GODDESS BY EMILY OUNSTED
DANCING PRIESTESSES
THE SPIRIT OF DANCE BY NINA FALAISE
DRAWING DOWN THE MOON
A PERSONAL ACCOUNT BY GALATEA
LIFTING THE VEIL
INVOKING THE STAR GODDESS BY DIANE CHAMPIGNY
FOR LO! APOLLO IS WITHIN ME
THE BEAUTIFUL VOICE OF APOLLO BY BOLINA OCEANUS
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ISBN 9781905297214
RRP £12.99, PB, pp196
