Religion And Lust
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A woman who has once taken her place here cannotreturn home until a stranger has thrown into her lap a silver coin, andhas led her away with him beyond the limits of the sacred inclosure. Ashe throws the money he pronounces these words: 'May the goddess Mylittamake thee happy!' Now among the Assyrians, Aphrodite" (_the goddess oflove, desire_) "is called Mylitta. The woman follows the first man whothrows her the money, and repels no one. When once she has accompaniedhim, and _has thereby satisf...ied the goddess_, she returns to her home, and from thenceforth, however large the sum offered to her, she willyield to no one. " Maspero declares that "this custom still existed inthe fifth century before our era, and the Greeks who visited Babylonabout that time found it still in force. "[61] [T] Herodotus: _Clio_; See also Cary's translation of Herodotus, page 86 _et seq. _ [61] Maspero (Sayce): _The Dawn of Civilization_, p. 640.
He also calls attention to the fact that "we meet with a directallusion to this same custom in the Bible, in the _Book of Baruch_: Thewomen, also, with cords about them, sitting in the ways, burn bran forperfume; but if any of them, drawn by some that passeth by, lie withhim, she reproacheth her fellow, that she was not worthy of herself, norher cord broken.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
A woman who has once taken her place here cannotreturn home until a stranger has thrown into her lap a silver coin, andhas led her away with him beyond the limits of the sacred inclosure. Ashe throws the money he pronounces these words: 'May the goddess Mylittamake thee happy!' Now among the Assyrians, Aphrodite" (_the goddess oflove, desire_) "is called Mylitta. The woman follows the first man whothrows her the money, and repels no one. When once she has accompaniedhim, and _has thereby satisf...ied the goddess_, she returns to her home, and from thenceforth, however large the sum offered to her, she willyield to no one. " Maspero declares that "this custom still existed inthe fifth century before our era, and the Greeks who visited Babylonabout that time found it still in force. "[61] [T] Herodotus: _Clio_; See also Cary's translation of Herodotus, page 86 _et seq. _ [61] Maspero (Sayce): _The Dawn of Civilization_, p. 640.
He also calls attention to the fact that "we meet with a directallusion to this same custom in the Bible, in the _Book of Baruch_: Thewomen, also, with cords about them, sitting in the ways, burn bran forperfume; but if any of them, drawn by some that passeth by, lie withhim, she reproacheth her fellow, that she was not worthy of herself, norher cord broken.
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