Excerpt from The Holy Whore: A Woman’s Gateway to Power
by Cosi Fabian
The sexual aspects of the great goddesses - Inanna, Ishtar, Astarte, Isis, Ostera - in their original, ‘pre-patriarchal’ concepts have been difficult to unveil. There are centuries of Greco-Christian values muddying our view of “The Radiant Star, Lady of the Evening”, Inanna (we know her as “Venus”). Her priestesses, who included sex in their religious duties, have been even more sullied by our core, Christian values which essentially place the burden of The fall of man and the death of the Christ upon the sexual, and seductive, power of woman. Religious or not, Christian or not, all women are distorted by this veil of shame, hidden from ourselves and each other.
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