Lineaged Wicca is organised into covens of initiated priests and priestesses. Many of her ancestors were sorceresses and priestesses. The knot may have been a religious knot-cipher guarded by Gordian/Midas' priests and priestesses. Her devotions included daily rituals by the pharaoh and her priestesses. Women were also often found in the office of priestesses or mediums to the gods. Women had religious authority and were active as priestesses ("gydja") and oracles ("sejdkvinna"). "Maenads" are found in later references as priestesses of the Dionysian cult. Woolley also uncovered the temple complex where the priestesses were buried. Out of the temple emerges Dalila along with several priestesses of Dagon. Shivarra serve the Burning Legion as priestesses and military chaplains. Phaedra, incensed by the disobedience of the priestesses, threatens to destroy the temple. Helios is assisted by the , two priestesses who guard a shrine in Elysion. The House of the Vestals was the residence of the vestal priestesses in Rome. It is not uncommon for the clergy to be female priestesses. Women had also taken part in religious activities, such as those who were priestesses.