Astarte
Gezinti kısmına atla
Arama kısmına atla
(İng. Ashtart)
Göndermeler
Diğer
| Herodotus (1.199), for instance, records that some of the prostitutes at the temple of ‘Ashtart on Cyprus were ordinary women who had temporarily dedicated their bodies to the goddess in gratitude for an answered prayer or as the result of religious obligation.[1] |
| Whilst according to Lucian (De Dea Syria, 6), Byblian women who refused to shave their hair and offer it to the god Adonis at the annual festival in his honour were punished by being forced to spend a day prostituting themselves in the temple of ‘Ashtart.[2] |
| Phoenician temples (at least those consecrated to ‘Ashtart) employed guards, servants, barbers, scribes, musicians, butchers, bakers, a ‘water master’, a ‘sacrificer’ and sacred prostitutes.[3] |
Notlar
- ↑ Woolmer, Mark (2002). A Short History of the Phoenicians. London, New York: I.B.Tauris & Co. Ltd. s. 71.
- ↑ Woolmer, Mark (2002). A Short History of the Phoenicians. London, New York: I.B.Tauris & Co. Ltd. s. 71.
- ↑ Woolmer, Mark (2002). A Short History of the Phoenicians. London, New York: I.B.Tauris & Co. Ltd. s. 119.