Definition & Meaning | English word SEERESS

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Definitions of SEERESS

1. A female seer.

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Examples of Using SEERESS in a Sentence

• The seeress in Völuspá tells of how the world began with a great magical nothingness called Ginnungagap, until Odin and his two brothers raised the Earth from the sea.
• In Germanic paganism, a seeress is a woman said to have the ability to foretell future events and perform sorcery.
• Gróa is also a völva (or seeress), summoned from beyond the grave, in the Old Norse poem Grógaldr, (a section of Svipdagsmál), by her son Svipdagr.
• Freyja disguised Óttar as her boar Hildisvini (the Battle-Swine) and brought him to the gýgr Hyndla, a seeress.
• Since Frigg is referred to as a seeress in the poem Lokasenna, this etymology has led to theories connecting Sága to Frigg.
• It may refer to the seeress and witch (völva) mentioned in one stanza of Völuspá, related to the story of the Æsir-Vanir war:.
• Eilley reinvented herself as "The Famous Washoe Seeress", a professional scryer and fortune-teller in Nevada and California.
• A seeress prophesies Ragnarök, where Odin will be slain by the wolf Fenrir and Thor by the Midgard serpent, unless a mortal descendant of Odin, a serpent-slayer, fights alongside the gods.
• is a Pulsian seeress from the city-state of Paddra on Gran Pulse prior to the time of the War of Transgression, having written Analects relating to the event, Etro, Ragnarok, and the Eidolons.
• She probably taught the craft of prophesying to a young fellow tribeswoman named Waluburg who would serve as a seeress at the First Cataract of the Nile in Egypt.
• He was also interested in educative youth literature, and wrote a novel, Rahab, die Seherin von Jericho (Rahab, the Seeress of Jericho), whose aim it was to make religion and religious topics more accessible to young adults.
• Waluburg probably was taught her craft by a fellow tribeswoman, the seeress Ganna, who succeeded Veleda as a leader of the Germanic resistance against the Romans and who is known to have had an audience with emperor Domitian.
• In later times, female cultic functionaries are known, like Celtic/Germanic seeress Veleda who has been interpreted by some Celtologists as a druidess.
• Friederike Hauffe (born Friederike Wanner, 23 September 1801 – 25 August 1829), also known as Frederica Hauffe, or the Seeress of Prevorst, was a German mystic and somnambulist.
• Simek points out that although her name is interpreted as meaning 'seeress' ('staff bearer'), she is not said to perform any prophesying in the legend, but Jarnut comments that in the so-called Historia Langobardorum codicis Gothani, from the early 9th century, she is characterized as a great seeress, like Pythia and the Sibyl.
• Disir focuses thematically on these female Norse goddesses as told in "Voluspa: The Prophecy of the Seeress" from Poetic Edda.
• Mopsus (and perhaps a tradition of his heirs, like the Melampodidae, the Iamidae from Olympia or the Eumolpidae at Eleusis) officiated at the altars of Apollo at Klaros, which he founded; at Klaros the tradition was that he had been the son of a daughter of the seer Teiresias named Manto, literally "seeress".
• If the functions of seeress and priestess are not combined, as in the case of the Cimbrian seeresses, confirmations of such a priestly function have only survived from Iceland, where some of them are named, and from Sweden and Uppsala with its Freyr cult.

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