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Sex of the Moon (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list) Harran 12 Assyrian Identity 12.03 Assyrian identity in Christian Era 12.03.02 Continuity of “Old Faith” beside Christianity 12.03.02.01 Harran Moon 02 Religious and ideological symbols and iconographic motifs 02.01 Astral and celestial symbols and imagery 02.01.02 Moon	Keywords moon
Period 3rd century CE Roman Empire	Channel Roman philosophers and scholars

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Carrhae = Harran.

Historia Augusta, Caracalla 7.3-5:
All the learned, but particularly the inhabitants of Carrhae, hold that those who think that the deity ought to be called Luna, with the name and the sex of a woman, are subject to women and always their slaves; but those who believe that the deity is male never suffer the ambushes of women. Hence the Greeks, and also the Egyptians, although they speak of Luna as a god, in the same way that women are included in “Man,” nevetherless in their mysteries use the name Lunus.

Source (list of abbreviations)
Historia Augusta, Caracalla 7.3-5

Bibliography

Green 1992, 28

Green, Tamara. The City of the Moon God, Religious Traditions of Harran. Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 114. Leiden, New York, Cologne: E. J. Brill 1992.

Amar Annus

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