Hyenae

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Hyenae [1]

a name applied by Porphyry to the priestesses of Mithras, or the sun. Hydriaphoria (from Ὕδωρ , Water, and Φέρω , to bear), a ceremony in which the married alien women carried a vessel with water for the married women of Athens as they walked to the temple of Athena in the great procession of the Panathenaia.

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