Now the most shameful of the customs of the Babylonians is as follows: - Every woman of the country must sit down in the precincts of Aphrodite once in her life and have sex with a man who is a stranger. […] Here when a woman takes her seat she does not depart again to her house until one of the stranger has thrown a silver coin into her lap and has had sex with her outside the temple, and after throwing it he must say these words only: “I call upon the goddess Mylitta in your behalf.” Mylitta is the Assyrians’ name for Aphrodite. The silver coin may be of any value; whatever it is she will not refuse it, for that is not lawful for her, seeing that this coin is made sacred by the act. She follows the man who has first thrown, and does not reject any. After that she departs to her house, having discharged her duty to the goddess, nor will you be able thenceforth to give any gift so great as to seduce her. So then as many as possess beaty and statue are speedily released, but those who are ugly remain there much time, not being able to fulfil the law; for some of them remain even as much as three or four years. In some parts of Cyprus too there is a custom similar to this.
- Herodotus The Histories Book 1, 199
Now, this is the first post to re-use a quote. I think it’s good to hammer home the point of Oh Ye Gods - that the gods of old are still with us. That we should explore
’s Eye of the Abyss, and whether we’re moralizers.Or maybe we just have lessons to learn, being more moral, or less, or just humans.
Slaves to gods and men,
While striving for heaven.
See, in the quote, and why I use it, I find it poignant to today’s society.
Todays women, they take their tokens not just once, but daily.
Whatever buys their affections, they take their sacred tokens to Bacchus and Aphrodite. But you can see it most clearly in bars and clubs.
Or, playing a longer game, we send our daughters to temples to Eros and Aphrodite to get a Mrs. degree. An empty piece of paper, a ring, a few “experiences” with maybe a trip to the temple of Bacchus thrown in… Remember, as the quote says, the ugly ones may take a few years!
Heck, if she conceives a child she can even make a sacrifice to Moloch!
Three gods, one temple, hiding under the name of Feminism.
You go girl.
So, you see.
We’re not more moral than the old pagans.
The old pagans, their families at least wanted their women to get paid to be sluts.
We send our innocent daughters into usurious debt slavery to demons for the privilege. At an age when we legally claim they’re too immature to drink alcohol or smoke tobacco, they can become indebted with loads of usurious debt at a progressive temple to sex and drugs.
And then boomers have the audacity to call them entitled when they’re angry when they realize what has happened to them, and they want a debt jubilee.
And we haven’t even gotten into the sacrifices to Ares, Zeus, or any of the rest of the Pantheon.
So.
You tell me.
Are the pagans…
Or the neo-pagans…
More moral?
In my opinion it is from this god that the Ammonians took the name which they have, for the Egyptians call Zeus Amun. The Thebans then do not sacrifice rams, but hold them sacred for this reason; on one day however in the year, on the feast of Zeus, they cut up in the same manner and flay one single ram and cover with its skin the image of Zeus, and then they bring up to it another image of Heracles. This done, all who are in the temple beat themselves for the ram, and then they bury it in a sacred tomb.
- Herodotus Histories Book 2, 42
I don't know if the non-corporeal entities in question are Eros and Aphrodite -- college campuses might invoke those two on rare occasion but my guess is it's more like Paimon and Belial.