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The High Priestess (II) is the second Major Arcana card in cartomantic Tarot decks. It is based on the 2nd trump of Tarot card packs . In the first Tarot pack with inscriptions, the 18th-century woodcut Tarot de Marseilles , this figure is crowned with the Papal tiara and labelled La Papesse , the Popess , a possible reference to the legend of ...
The Hebrew term qadishtu, formerly translated as "temple prostitutes" or "shrine prostitutes", literally means "priestesses" or "consecrated women", from the Semitic root qdš, meaning "holy". [81] However, there is a growing scholarly consensus that sacred prostitution never existed, and that sex acts within the temple were strictly limited to ...
Boaz and Jachin are the detached black pillars shown on either side of the entrance steps. According to the Bible, Boaz ( Hebrew: בֹּעַז Bōʿaz) and Jachin ( יָכִין Yāḵīn) were two copper, brass or bronze pillars which stood on the porch of Solomon's Temple, the first Temple in Jerusalem. [ 1] They are used as symbols ...
v. t. e. According to the Book of Judges, Deborah ( Hebrew: דְּבוֹרָה, Dəḇōrā) was a prophetess of Judaism, the fourth Judge of pre-monarchic Israel and the only female judge mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. Many scholars contend that the phrase, "a woman of Lappidoth", as translated from biblical Hebrew in Judges 4:4 denotes her ...
The temple of Eanna, meaning "house of heaven" [3] in Uruk [4] was the greatest of these. The temple housed Nadītu , priestesses of the goddess. The high priestess would choose for her bed a young man who represented the shepherd Dumuzid , consort of Inanna, in a hieros gamos celebrated during the annual Duku ceremony, just before Invisible ...
The Hebrew Bible uses two different words for prostitute, zonah (זונה) [35] and kedeshah (or qedesha) (קדשה). [35] The word zonah simply meant an ordinary prostitute or loose woman. [35] But the word kedeshah literally means set apart (in feminine form), from the Semitic root Q-D-Sh (קדש) meaning holy, consecrated or set ...
Enheduanna ( Sumerian: 𒂗𒃶𒌌𒀭𒈾[ 1] Enḫéduanna, also transliterated as Enheduana, En-he2-du7-an-na, or variants) was the entu (high) priestess of the moon god Nanna (Sīn) in the Sumerian city-state of Ur in the reign of her father, Sargon of Akkad ( r. c. 2334 – c. 2279 BCE). She was likely appointed by her father as the ...
Inanna[ a] is the ancient Mesopotamian goddess of love, war, and fertility. She is also associated with sensuality, procreation, divine law, and political power. Originally worshipped in Sumer, she was known by the Akkadian Empire, Babylonians, and Assyrians as Ishtar[ b] (and occasionally the logogram 𒌋𒁯 ). Her primary title is "the ...