What was the sacred marriage in earlier mesopotamian civilization?
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Sacred Marriage and Sacred Prostitution in Ancient Mesopotamia. 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.
Sacred Marriage and Sacred Prostitution in Ancient Mesopotamia. 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.
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