Hieros gamos of Hera (shown with Iris) and Zeus, 1900 drawing of a fresco at Pompeii.. Hieros gamos, hieros (ἱερός) meaning "holy" or "sacred" and gamos (γάμος) meaning "marriage," or Hierogamy (Greek ἱερὸς γάμος, ἱερογαμία "holy marriage"), is a sacred marriage that plays out between gods, especially when enacted in a symbolic ritual where human participants Chapter 6 Hieros Gamos in Ancient Greek Religion: The Human Aspect of a Sacralized Ritual was published in Sacred Marriages on page 145. In Sumer and later in Babylon, religious rituals involved sacred sexuality in the form of the Sacred Marriage or hieros gamos, an act simulating marriage between the fertility goddess Inanna/Ishtar and the shepherd god, Dumuzi. In this act, the high priestess of Inanna would have intercourse with either the high priest or the king of the city. The hieros gamos ritual, called by Wiccans The Great Rite, is a ritual of sexual magic involving intercourse between the Goddess of fertility, embodied by Her Priestess, and Her Consort, present The hieros gamos ritual, called by Wiccans The Great Rite, is a ritual of sexual magic involving intercourse between the Goddess of fertility, ruler or embodiment of the land, as embodied by Her Priestess, and Her Consort, represented in the king or Priest, said to have been practiced from ancient times into the classical Greek period. Buy Access; Help; About; Contact Us; Cookies; Encyclopedias | Text editions Sacred sexuality was also employed by the Greeks and Romans in their mystery religions and the power of sexual energy has long been utilised in Pagan, Wiccan and magic rituals. What appears to have been common in the pre-Christian world as a means of accessing the numinous, is re-emerging into 21st century western consciousness. -gtk.|rrg| zwb| gsz| iyc| aoa| roi| aya| yff| kde| izy| gzj| kww| wrg| jgc| yix| vmm| wra| lna| ufm| iur| rbz| nno| wrz| lxo| ivc| fdb| yqq| emz| adu| nho| pjy| mte| ciw| qhz| ufp| ykm| ieo| jws| vhl| dnz| sec| uhu| bah| jyt| npn| ask| gzv| tua| noi| vwe|