And, lo and behold, then I see this advertised at Treadwells... www.treadwells-london.com
Wed 8 January
Mesopotamian Sex Magic
The world's oldest known sex rite
A Sumerian expert unpacks a magical text, written in cuneiform, which is probably the world's oldest surviving sex magic ritual, and uses this as a jumping off point for talking about the magical and the sacred in this enigmatic society. Our speaker works with the texts relating to demons and spells of Mesopotamia, being a scholar working in the field. Tonight is for everyone with a fondness for Ishtar, Erishkigal, Inanna, Enkidu, Tammuz, Pazuzu and the wonderful world of the Tigris-Euprhates valley.
Price: £7 Ring 0207 419 8507 or book online
Time: 7.15pm for a 7.30pm start.
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From: Society for The Academic Study of Magic [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of mandrake
Sent: Thursday, 28 November 2013 9:00 PM
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Subject: Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] Sexual cult in Babylon?
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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