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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 edition. Excerpt: ...coming in and others are going out; passages marked out in a straight line lead in every direction through the women, along which strangers pass and make their choice. When a woman has once seated herself, she must not return home till some stranger has thrown a piece of silver into her lap and lain with her outside the temple (compare 1 Sam. ii. 22). He who throws the silver must say thus, 'I beseech the Goddess Mylitta to favour thee;' for so the Assyrians call Venus, Mylitta. The silver may be ever so small, for she will not reject it, inasmuch as it is not lawful for her to do so, for such silver is accounted sacred. The woman follows the first man that throws, and refuses no one. But when she has had intercourse, and has absolved herself from her obligation to the Goddess, she returns home; and after that time, however great a sum you may give her, you will not gain possession of her. Those that are endowed with beauty and symmetry of shape are soon set free, but the deformed are detained a long time from inability to satisfy the law, for some wait for a space of three or four years. In some parts of Cyprus there is a custom very similar." M Pp. HB, 87, Cary's translation of Herodotus. Bolin's edition, London, 1858. We presume that the following translation, from a portion of a cylinder of Sargon, has reference to the above worship, and the king's opinion thereupon. "I watched over (or protected) their female children until they married. I would not permit handsome damsels of the upper classes to offer prayers and supplications in the temple of the Babylonian goddess."5 Sargon was I understand an usuper, and when he came to the throne, he, like Jehu, Jeroboam, Athaliah, Henry VIII., Mary, Elizabeth, Cromwell,...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0217777457
- ISBN 13 9780217777452
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages210
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