3.2 Cult of Ištar

There are 164 entries associated with this topic.

Abydenus on Nebuchadnezzar (1)
Acdestis and the marriage of Attis (1)
Adam as both male and female (1)
Adam's primordial clothing (1)
Adam's robe of glory (1)
Addai's glorification of Christ (1)
Adonis and Aphrodite (1)
Alexander and al-Khiḍr (1)
Alexander and Babylon (1)
Alexander in the Land of Darkness (1)
The androgynous prophets (1)
Antiochene spring festival during Commodus' reign 180-192 CE (1)
Apamea and the Chaldean Oracles (1)
Apocalyptic scene of Ascensio Isaiae (1)
The ascending soul (1)
Ascending through the gates (1)
Ascending to the bridal chamber (1)
Ascension in Mithraism (1)
Ascension of the souls (1)
Ascension to the stars (1)
Ascent in the Chaldean Oracles (1)
Ascent of the soul (1)
Ascent of the soul (2)
Ascent of the soul (3)
Ascetic devotion (1)
The Assyrian Tree of Life (1)
Assyrian worship of the dove (1)
Assyrians first to worship Aphrodite (1)
At the gate of netherworld (1)
Attis and Agdistis (1)
Attis and the Syrian goddess (1)
Baptism in water (1)
Basilides on the self-castration (1)
Belief in eternal life (1)
The birth of Semiramis (1)
The birth of Semiramis (2)
Body as delicate vehicle (1)
Bridal chamber and encratism (1)
Bridal chamber in heaven (1)
Byblos sanctuary of Aphrodite (1)
Casting away body parts (1)
Castration history of Edessa (1)
Castration of Zeus (1)
Causes of divine madness (1)
The Cave of Nymphs (1)
Chaldean theory of planets (1)
Chaldeans and the Roman kings (1)
Christ as the defeater of death (1)
A Christian justification of self-castration (1)
A Christian monastic order requiring castration (1)
Clothing of soul (1)
Consecrating a church (1)
Conversion of a pagan temple (1)
Crassus and the goddess in Hierapolis (1)
Creation story of Mani (1)
The cult of Adonis (1)
The cult of Nabû in the 4th century (1)
The dark world beneath (1)
Death and resurrection of Adonis (1)
Death and resurrection of Dumuzi (1)
Descent of Ištar (1)
The descent of souls (1)
Descent of the soul (1)
Discourse on the Alexander (1)
Divine accessible to the naked (1)
Elagabalus "the Assyrian" (1)
Esarhaddon on his recalcitrant vassal (1)
Eschatological garment of glory (1)
The Exegesis on the Soul (1)
The First Hermes (1)
Gardens of Adonis (1)
The gates of the netherworld (1)
The Gnostic Pleroma (1)
A god descending (1)
The goddess as androgyne (1)
The goddess' ascent (1)
Gods and ascent (1)
Greater and lesser mysteries (1)
Greek festival of Adonis and Aphrodite (1)
He will come in glory (1)
The Hebrew Song of Songs (1)
Hekate and theurgy (1)
Hekate descends to Earth (1)
The Hermetic ascent (1)
Herodotus on the Babylonian cult of Ištar (1)
The host of heaven and archons (1)
Human being has two souls (1)
Human soul as virgin (1)
The Hymn of the Pearl (1)
I came back to life (1)
If Marduk falls to the ground (1)
Insolence of the Great Mother's Son (1)
Ištar and Aphrodite (1)
Ištar as the Holy Spirit (1)
Ištar of Arbela to Esarhaddon (1)
Joseph as eunuch (1)
Katabasis to the netherworld (1)
Kings going up to heaven (1)
The land of no return (1)
Leading upward (1)
The life-giving water (1)
Liwet descends into a girl (1)
Macrobius on the soul's descent (1)
Macrobius on the soul's descent (2)
Mani's story of Adam (1)
Medicine of Life (1)
Millennial thought of Tertullian (1)
Mother of the Seven houses (1)
Mourning for Attis (1)
Music and divine possession (1)
Nebo as the god of oracles (1)
Net of the god (1)
No name to the One (1)
Oracle for the Emperor Julian (1)
The original man (1)
Paradise on a great height (1)
Paradise on the top of the Ziggurat (1)
Persian customs = Assyrian customs (1)
Persians and the worship of statues (1)
The personae in the Song of Songs (1)
Philo on the effeminates (1)
The Phrygian Cybele (1)
Prophecy in the Old Babylonian period (1)
Punishments of Mithras (1)
Purification of body (1)
Putting on the Spirit (1)
Rays of the Sun (1)
Resurrected one in garden (1)
Resurrection of Melqart (1)
Resurrection of Zoroaster (1)
The risen Christ and Mary (John 20) (1)
The rites of Galli in Hierapolis (1)
The rites of Galli in Hierapolis (2)
The salvation history (1)
Salvation in clothing metaphors (1)
Sanctuary of Aphrodite in Aphaca (1)
Sardanapalus the silk worm (1)
The Saviour and the netherworld (1)
Self-castration in the temple of Ištar (1)
Septimius Severus and Belus of Apamea (1)
Seven-rayed god (1)
The Seveners (1)
Sevenfold division of the soul (1)
Simon and Helena (1)
The soul as divine triad (1)
Soul divided in three (1)
Souls on Olympus (1)
Stripping during the Descent (1)
Symbols of the Attis cult (1)
Symbols of the Attis cult (2)
A Syrian prophetess of Marius (1)
Tale of Bulūqiyā (2)
Tammuz and a Christian martyr (1)
Tammuz and a Christian martyr (2)
The temple of Aphrodite on Cyprus (1)
The temple of Astarte in Sidon (1)
The temple of Heavenly Aphrodite in Ascalon (1)
The temple of the Syrian Goddess (1)
The temple of the Syrian Goddess (6)
Vehicles of soul's ascension (1)
Weeping for Tammuz (1)
Weeping for Tammuz (2)
The whirling sound (1)
Zaddiq and Shekhinah (1)

3. Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices (299)

3.1 Public festivals (103)

3.1 Public festivals (103)

3.1.1 Spring New year’s festival (Nisan/vernal equinox) (9)

3.1.1.1 Procession to Akitu house (2)

3.1.2 Marriage of Nabû (Iyyar/April) (15)

3.1.3 Festival of Tammuz (Tammuz/summer solstice) (48)

3.1.3.1 Wailing of Tammuz (32)

3.1.3.2 Healing of deathly sick (3)

3.1.4 Festival of Ištar (Elul) (5)

3.1.5 Autumn New Year’s festival (Tišri/autumnal equinox) (2)

3.1.6 Race of Nabû (Christmas/winter solstice) (6)

3.1.6.1 Victory over Anzu and Asakku (sin and death) (3)

3.1.6.2 Good tidings (euangelion) (2)

3.1.7 Royal hunt (9)

3.1.7.1 Hunting park (paradeison) (6)

3.1.8 Royal entry (4)

3.1.9 Triumph (2)

3.1.10 Substitute king ritual (7)

 

3.2 Cult of Ištar (164)

3.2 Cult of Ištar (164)

3.2.1 Doctrine of salvation (100)

3.2.1.1 Heavenly origin of the soul (12)

3.2.1.2 Descent/fall of the divine spirit (27)

3.2.1.3 Loss of virtues/garments (9)

3.2.1.4 Spiritual death = nakedness (5)

3.2.1.5 Repentance

3.2.1.6 Prayer

3.2.1.7 Divine grace

3.2.1.8 Spiritual helper/rescuer (8)

3.2.1.8.1 Bread of life (word of god) (2)

3.2.1.8.2 Water of life (baptism) (6)

3.2.1.9 Spiritual rebirth (4)

3.2.1.10 Ascent of the soul (1) (33)

3.2.1.11 Union with god (17)

3.2.1.11.1 Wedding night (3)

3.2.1.11.2 Soul = Bride (7)

3.2.1.11.3 God = Bridegroom (8)

3.2.1.12 Redemption (1)

3.2.1.12.1 Innocent sufferer

3.2.1.13 Resurrection (26)

3.2.2 Devotees of Ištar (19)

3.2.2.1 Effeminates (assinnu) (7)

3.2.2.2 Eunuch devotees (kurgarru/gallos) (15)

3.2.3 Ecstatic techniques (12)

3.2.3.1 Asceticism (1) (1)

3.2.3.2 Fasting and weeping (1) (5)

3.2.3.3 Self-flagellation (1)

3.2.3.4 Self-mutilation (1) (2)

3.2.3.5 Intoxicating music and dance (5)

3.2.4 Transsexuality/androgyny (24)

3.2.4.1 Self-castration (16)

3.2.4.2 Transvetitism

3.2.5 Possession by god/frenzy (8)

3.2.6 Prophecy (16)

3.2.7 Sacred prostitutes (3)

 

3.3 Service of god (24)

3.3 Service of god (24)

3.3.1 Prostration before god

3.3.2 Illuminating god’s face

3.3.3 Purifying the temple (3)

3.3.3.1 Censers (1)

3.3.3.2 Torches (1)

3.3.3.3 Incensation (1)

3.3.4 Feeding god (9)

3.3.4.1 Setting the offering table (bread, fruit, nuts etc.)

3.3.4.2 Libations (wine, beer, honey and oil) (4)

3.3.4.3 Animal offerings (3)

3.3.4.4 Burnt offerings (maqlutu) (1)

3.3.5 Lamentations and chants (1)

3.3.5.1 Choirs of castrated singers

3.3.6 Psalms and songs

3.3.7 Dressing and bathing gods

3.3.8 Lighting candles

3.3.9 Processions of divine images (3)

3.3.10 Circumambulating the temple

3.3.11 Giving presents (3)

3.3.12 Kissing the ground (2)

 

3.4 Secular rituals (8)

3.4 Secular rituals (8)

3.4.1 Marriage (4)

3.4.1.1 Crown of bride

3.4.1.2 Veiling of bride

3.4.1.3 Wedding ring

3.4.2 Funeral ritual (4)

3.4.2.1 Funeral display (1)

3.4.2.2 Washing the feet

3.4.2.3 Wailing (1)

3.4.2.4 Circumambulation of bed

3.4.2.5 Offerings to infernal gods

3.4.2.6 Breaking of glass

3.4.2.7 Funeral burning