Need your help on pagan sacred whores

[Canela]

I need some resources on sacred whores: books (you have read!), websites and pages, anything goes but it must be serious !

Thank you,

Your Canela

[Durthorin]

I need some resources on sacred whores: books (you have read!), websites and pages, anything goes but it must be serious !

Thank you,

Your Canela

What exactly are you looking for?

http://www.ishtartemple.org/sacredIshtar.htm

then again you have stuff like The Sacred Whore: Sheela Goddess of the Celts

Are you looking for the history, the anthropology...?

Brighid Bless, Dur

[Canela]

Everything. History, anthropology, mythology, psychology. I've searched amazon.com and other online libraries and guess what? There's almost nothing on the topic! Amazing, isn't it?

Did you read the book you recommend in your post, irmao?

Your Canela

[technomage]

Everything. History, anthropology, mythology, psychology. I've searched amazon.com and other online libraries and guess what? There's almost nothing on the topic! Amazing, isn't it?

Well, there just doesn't seem to be too much evidence that it ever happened--at least, not as we have described in the OT.

Try this article as a starting place: it's a bit short, but the references list is a good starting point to work with.

[guacamole]

Various Google searches found some things, I don't know how serious or critical they are. I usd the following searches:

Temple Prostitution
Sumerian Temple Prostitution
Hindu Temple Prostitution

fwiw
guac.

[Durthorin]

Everything. History, anthropology, mythology, psychology. I've searched amazon.com and other online libraries and guess what? There's almost nothing on the topic! Amazing, isn't it?

Did you read the book you recommend in your post, irmao?

Your Canela

The book was recommended to me, sorry to say I have not read it. What you seem to be looking for is sex as an aspect of the sacred femine then? In that context female sexuality as coupled with worship of a Goddess in a number of cultures usually fertility based. Try here on the internet Sacred Text Archive, there is a section devoted to Sexuality in all faiths. An it may offer a further launch point for you.

http://www.sacred-texts.com/sex/

Brighid Bless, Dur

[Canela]

The book was recommended to me, sorry to say I have not read it. What you seem to be looking for is sex as an aspect of the sacred femine then? In that context female sexuality as coupled with worship of a Goddess in a number of cultures usually fertility based. Try here on the internet Sacred Text Archive, there is a section devoted to Sexuality in all faiths. An it may offer a further launch point for you.

http://www.sacred-texts.com/sex/

Brighid Bless, Dur

Thank you Dur and five pearls for your kind efforts.