Bible Encyclopedias
Hyenae
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
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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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Hyenae'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/h/hyenae.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.