prophetesses
Women foretelling futures
Prophetesses is the plural of prophetess, a woman who speaks by divine inspiration or foretells future events.
The term appears most often in religious and historical contexts: the prophetesses of ancient Israel, She was regarded as one of the great prophetesses of her age.
Prophet now serves for both sexes, making prophetess somewhat old-fashioned.
Female prophets of antiquity
- oraclesSources of divine guidance
- seersThose claiming foresight
- priestessesFemale religious officiants
- DeborahFeminine Hebrew appellation
Miriam · Anna · visionaries · diviners · soothsayers · temple · revelation · scripture
Imagined or prophetic sights
- trancesSemiconscious mental states
- ecstasyOverwhelming intense delight
- channelingDirecting flow or energy
- mediumsThose who contact spirits
clairvoyants · dreamers · revelations · apparitions · supernatural · otherworldly · spirits · possession
Greek prophetic sanctuary
- CassandraIgnored prophet of doom
- sibyllineMysteriously prophetic
- templeSacred worship structure
- tranceSemiconscious, unresponsive condition
Apollo · divination · Greek · Roman · Egyptian · Mesopotamian · priestess · shrine
Spiritual healers and intermediaries
- medicine womenFemale traditional healers
- wise womenKnowledgeable female elders
- healersThose who treat ailments
- indigenousOriginating in a region
tribal · ancestors · elders · traditions · ceremonies · rituals · storytellers · keepers
sibyls
Female prophets of antiquity
- oraclesSources of divine guidance
- seersThose claiming foresight
- priestessesFemale religious officiants
Deborah · Miriam · Anna · visionaries · diviners · soothsayers · temple · revelation · scripture · anointed
visions
Imagined or prophetic sights
- trancesSemiconscious mental states
- ecstasyOverwhelming intense delight
- channelingDirecting flow or energy
mediums · clairvoyants · dreamers · revelations · apparitions · supernatural · otherworldly · spirits · possession · foretelling
Delphi
Greek prophetic sanctuary
trance · Apollo · divination · Greek · Roman · Egyptian · Mesopotamian · priestess · shrine · entranced
shamans
Spiritual healers and intermediaries
- medicine womenFemale traditional healers
- wise womenKnowledgeable female elders
- healersThose who treat ailments
indigenous · tribal · ancestors · elders · traditions · ceremonies · rituals · storytellers · keepers · matriarchs
Cassandra
Ignored prophet of doom
doomed · cursed · foreknowledge · fate · destiny · mythological · epic · drama · symbolism · archetype
- Biblical WomenEve, Mary, Ruth, Sarah, Rachel
- Churchwomenchurchwomen, women's ministry, women pastors, women preachers, deaconesses
- Legendary WomenPenelope, Cassandra, Clytemnestra, Andromeda, Atalanta
- religious feminismwomen clergy, ordination of women, inclusive language, sacred feminine, divine feminine
- historical womenCleopatra, Joan of Arc, Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Victoria, Marie Curie
prophetesseshistorians
Scholars of the past
chroniclers · archivists · annalists · historiographers · antiquarians
prophetessesskeptics
Those who doubt claims
empiricists · scientists · rationalists · materialists · doubters