Ladies and Gentleman:  I've gotten a few queries about my moniker.  If you're not "with it" enough to do the google search yourself THEN YOU SHOULDN'T BE CONTACTING ME!

Here's the info from wikipedia:In the Ancient Near East

along the Tigris

and Euphrates

rivers there were many shrines and temples or "houses of heaven" dedicated to various deities

documented by the Ancient Greek

historian Herodotus

in The Histories

^[1]

where sacred prostitution was a common practice.^[2]

According to Samuel Noah Kramer

in The Sacred Marriage Rite, in late Sumerian history

kings established their legitimacy by taking part in the ceremony in the temple for one night, on the tenth day of the New Year festival Akitu

.^[3]

It came to an end when the emperor Constantine

in the 4th century destroyed the goddess

temples and replaced them with Christianity

.^[4]

The practice is well disputed among scholars, partly due to doubts cast on the histories of Herodotus.^[5]

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