Hieros Gamos is Greek for sacred marriage "sacred marriage feast" or "sacred sex" is the technical term or mythical ritual union between a god and a goddess, or more generally a divine and a human being, especially a king and a god. The term has its greatest Hieros Gamos use in the study of royalty in the culture of the city of the ancient Near East ...
The hieros deer as a ritual creates cities beginning built on the wealth provided by agriculture. Far from ending the 'primitive' cults of the village,Hieros Gamos they expanded and streamlined with forms that have been learned variations and former symbolism. One is the sexual union of the king and a priestess as an episode in the long Babylonian feast Akitu (New Year). The model for this ritual, and occurs in the myths and customs of the Sumerian temple.
The Rite hieros deer, attached Hieros Gamos to the part of the New Year and is celebrated in many places of worship, symbolizing the union of the king of the city and the goddess of the city, sometimes represented by the wife of the king, the usually by a hierodoule ... a priestess. ..The Wedding ritual ... Everything is a replica of celestial marriage. Not only hieros Gamos hierodoule the personification of a goddess, but the king could not be said to represent a god ...
A ritual of the prototype is the history of Hieros Gamos the Sumerian goddess Inanna and Dumuzi his relationship with the pastor with whom the supreme, all - powerful goddess of love. In the drama of the goddess descends into hell for reasons that are not entirely clear, but they are certainly related to his ambition to perfect his government to extend Hieros Gamos the kingdom of the dead. She was defeated in his attempt, and her "big sister", Ereshkigal ("Queen of the Great Below") is not an exception in his case; it defines "look of death" in the Inanna. Inanna can not escape unless a replacement is found. She swears to find one. In his absence, Dumuzi, his love, he spends time with all the trappings of wealth and power that occupies the throne. Although Inanna had no intention to enter the underworld in place, now "look of death" on it, it is fixed and ordered the demons to take him and torture him. Hieros Gamos the story ends in a compromise, so DUMUZI on earth to be half of the year, and the other half in the kingdom of death.
It is this kind of mythological setting that has served as a Hieros Gamos model for the Sumerian kings-Accad, and it is this kind of mythology, Hieros Gamos with its many themes, sub-themes, and changes the model of monarchy and religion was formed in worldwide ancient Near East. Ezekiel 8:14 ET one of the texts of the tradition of Israel strongly opposed to most religious customs associated hieros deer; speaking women (ritual) wept the fate of Tammuz (Dumuzi) at the temple gates. Hieros Gamos considerable number of details that make equally unlikely that the story of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to some of its features with the myth of the dying god-shepherd. Hieros Gamos Dumuzi (Tammuz) are not actually depicted as a god, and was originally not a god but a human king which was required to confer sacred certainty,Hieros Gamos the future marriage to the Great Goddess (Inanna-Ishtar), and wealth of their land.
It is clear that the monarchy required a sacred foundation that could be provided by the omnipotence of the Great Goddess Hieros Gamos ."
