prophetess

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The 5-inch drawing depicts the right foot of the Libyan Sibyl, a blonde prophetess wearing a creamsicle gown painted onto the chapel ceiling’s eastern end.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

The wife, whom the Assemblies described as the prophetess, was later released following an unspecified medical episode, police said.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 27, 2025

This immortal masterpiece, the “Jayaparajaya,” is the work of a prophetess named Pampa Kampana who died in 1565 at the age of 247.

From Washington Post • Feb. 1, 2023

Greek myths narrate the failure of prediction: For the Trojan prophetess Cassandra, those in power found ways to ignore even her perfect prophecy.

From Slate • Jul. 8, 2016

To him, only the heroic male nude possessed the physical monumentality necessary to express the awesome power of figures such as this mythical prophetess.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson