Hyenae

Hyenae 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.

See also the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia.

 
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