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   From: trap@necrotheque.demon.co.uk   
      
   Recently, a script from Eugene Griessel arrived, in which they said:   
      
   : As far as I can remember certain Egyptian cults had prostitutes   
   : attached to the temples - but I may be wrong on this.   
      
   I believe you may well be: I can only think of Hathor who might have, and   
   IIRC her priests and priestesses had the same licence outside the Temple   
   as the rest of society, but were not cult prostitutes.   
      
   Belil, Astarte, Asherah; I don't know of any others who ritualised   
   sexual bargains in a way whicch could be called temple prostitution.   
      
   ~R   
   --   
   Romauld - romauld at necrotheque dot dcu   
   "It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses   
    or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not   
    change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people."   
           - Giordano Bruno   
      
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