Sentence:  Although it was the custom for the priestesses to affect a holy fury, a species of temporary insanity, in the delivering of their oracles, yet it was also the custom to write them on the leaves of trees, and to deposit them at the entrances of their caves, or the <WSD>adyta</WSD> of their temples; and it was the object of the devotee to secure them before they were dispersed by the winds; ... 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A private chamber; a sanctum.