Taking center stage in the lighting ceremony was Greek actress Ino Menegaki as the traditional high priestess.

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Susan Orlean, Twitter high priestess and author of the amazing Orchid Thief disagrees.

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There's a sexy high priestess, the dragon fledglings of a would-be queen, and scary creatures encroaching from beyond Westeros's protective wall of ice.

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The only woman allowed into the stadium to watch the contests was, in fact, the high priestess of Demeter of the Earth-bed a relic of an age when the goddesses dominated Olympia.

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The revered high priestess belongs to his clan.

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