Dear friends
Other than the "sacred prostitution" canard there is a growing amount of
archeology about sexuality and cult in ancient Egypt.
Professor Mark Smith wrote a piece for
Enchoria that made international news, amazing for a scholary
translation of a fragment of papyrus:
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2012/09/25/cult-fiction-traced-to-ancient-egypt-priest/
it's worth reading the original article and his others on the way sexual
arousal figured in popular rites (much to the disgust of the Romans).
This idea is alviously something of longstanding interest to magical
practitioners - although they have sometimes been deflected from
interesting material -
the imagery is very visceral - hence Crowley's focus on the star goddess
Nuit is quite perceptive ( she is the only goddess routinely shown naked
etc).
My own feeling is that a better candidate for his fictional "Babalon"
would be Hathor. Kenneth Grant's groundbreaking thesis about the "dark
lord" is also close to the action although some of the mythology is
quite creative.
senebty
mogg morgan
> mogg morgan
>> Hi all,
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>> It appears that the documents refering to a sexual cult in Ancient
>> Babylon where a prejudice of Ancient Greeks, but I would like to know
>> if there is something more about it. Do you know of any esoteric or
>> mysteric cult in the Assiryan Empire related to sexuality? Any book
>> or article I should look at?
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>> Thanks in advance,
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>> Odrade.
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