Skip to main content. You're using an out-of-date version of Internet Explorer. Log In Sign Up. Elke Scholz, 'Eau Naturelie' represents a photographic collaborationbetween Artists Elke Scholz and Zoya to honour the female form and spirit h Nature. Elke's work has been published and is included in collections h Canada, the U. Testament seems to be partly responsible for the concept of "sacred prostitution. These terms and power, and, to some extent, Her divinity.
A deep concern for the fertility of land and people was The enta priestess, the Sumerian Nin-Dingir, meaning central to ritual activity in ancient Eastern Mediterranean "Lady Deity" or "Lady Who Is Goddess," was probably cultures, and, in some, cultic sexual intercourse consti- the "high priestess.
If the "Sacred The peoples of the area worshipped many deities, among Marriage Rite" involved human participants, she would them powerful "fertilityngoddesses. Further, their deities have incarnated the Goddess Inanna, later Ishtar, who had were usually members of female-male pairs; this female- ritual intercoursewithHer consort Dumuzi, later Tammuz. In interpreting this concern with fertility and its temple's ritual bed chamber.
However, in his persuasive sexual expression, scholars often state that these religions article on the "Sacred Marriage," Douglas Frayne argues promoted sexual promiscuity and counted among their that, at least in earliertimes, the king, incarnating Dumuzi, temple personnel "sacred prostitutes.
However, Douglas Frayne In Mesopotamia and, perhaps, other ancient Eastern argues convincinglythat the ritual was normally part of the Mediterranean cultures, the sexual ritual that scholars call installation of a new high priestess, but he refrains from "the Sacred Marriage" occurred in some form or other.
