NEW! Featured in Panegyria Magazine!

The Fire Priestesses & Melinoe

(As featured in the May 2026 edition of Panegyria Magazine)

The Fire Priestesses
8 Vestal Virgins

Fire Priestesses of the
Goddess Hestia
Keepers of the sacred flames
and mysteries therein
Dancing within the power of their Goddess

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Melinoe

Melinoe, Goddess of the Supernatural, is the daughter of Persephone and Zeus. She walks us through our nightmares and is known as a powerful protector of the dead.

Invoke her when seeking guidance and communication with loved ones in the spirit realm. Do not fear her for she is surrounded by light as well as darkness. Her dual nature creates a powerful enigma. Like her sister Lilith she can shape shift one moment into a beautiful nymph and the next a mysterious hag. Her image is created in the eyes of the beholder. Sometimes forgotten, she is
immortalized in the Greek Orphic Hymn 70 also sometimes referred to as Hymn 71 attributed to the mythical poet Orpheus.

“The Fumigation from Aromatics”

“I call Melinoe, saffron-veiled, terrene, who from infernal Pluto’s sacred queen Persephone, mixed with Saturnian Jupiter [Kronion Zeus], arose, near where Cocytus’ mournful river flows; when under Pluto’s [Plouton’s] semblance, Jove [Zeus] divine deceived with guileful arts dark Proserpine [Persephone]. Hence, partly black thy limbs and partly white, from Pluto [Plouton] dark, from Jove [Zeus] ethereal, bright. Thy coloured members, men by night inspire when seen in spectred forms, with terrors dire; now darkly visible, involved in night, perspicuous now they meet the fearful sight. Terrestrial queen expel wherever found the soul’s mad fears to earth’s remotest bound; with holy aspect on our incense shrine, and bless thy mystics, and the rites divine.”

This version was translated by Thomas Taylor (1758-1835).

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**The Original Art Work of Lady Haight-Ashton**

The debut of two of Lady’s art pieces!

The first one is a tribute to the Fire Priestesses of the Goddess Hestia Keepers of the sacred flames and the mysteries therein dancing within the power of their Goddess.

The second piece of art work is Lady’s depiction of the Goddess Melinoe. She is Goddess of the Supernatural as well as the daughter of Persephone and Zeus.