Ancient Eastern societies along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers featured many shrines and temples dedicated to varied deities. The fifth-century BC historian Herodotus’s description and a few other proof from the Hellenistic Period suggests that ancient societies encouraged the practice of sacred sexual rites not only in Babylonia and Cyprus, but all over the East. As per Herodotus, the rites performed Continue Reading
Sacred prostitution, a sexual ritual containing sexual intercourse or other sexual activity performed within the context of spiritual worship, possibly as a sort of fertility rite or divine marriage (hieros gamos). Some scholars select the terms “sacred sex” or “sacred sexual rites” to “sacred prostitution” in cases where payment for services wasn’t involved.Sexual rituals have two categories: culture-created, and natural behavior. The human-animal having developed sex rituals Continue Reading
Niyoga, meaning of the term would be ‘delegation’. Here the idea of delegating a husband’s duty of providing his wife with a child, to some other man; ideally a brother or a close relative. Circumstances such as the husband being impotent, or died without any successful attempt of reproduction, or that he has forsaken the Continue Reading
