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• Title:
  O pojmowaniu „rozwiązłości” w czasach przedchrześcijańskich: zjawisko prostytucji sakralnej
• Creator:
  Krysztofiak, Maria
• Description:
  The article presents the phenomenon of sacred prostitution which was characteristic of many ancient cultures and religions throughout the world. It shows a few of the most important issues connected with the sacred prostitution (also called religious or ritual): its origins (the cult of deities of love and fertility, typical of the pre-Christian cultures); its forms (one-time prostitution as an act of sacrificing one’s virginity or one-time sacrifice of a woman who was no longer a virgin, and constant prostitution practiced by priestesses or temple prostitutes); its main purposes (unification with deity, making a tribute to deity, pledge of the fertility of men, earth and animals by re-enactment of archetypical act of hieros gamos, the divine marriage). The article also analyses the religious anatomy of the phenomenon, basing on the thesis of Mircea Eliade; shows examples of sacred prostitution, taken mainly from The Golden Bough,the canonic work of Sir James George Frazer, and F.S. Pierre Dufour’s History of Prostitution; discusses the taboo of women’s blood on the basis of Jean-Paul Roux’s works; mentions the historical change in the meaning of the word “virgin” applying to Edward Whitmont’s statements; brings up controversies over the judgment of sacred prostitution as a historical phenomenon, referring to Edward Whitmont’s and Georg Baudler’s standpoints.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Date:
  2020.11.20
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  Polish
• Source:
  Studia et Documenta Slavica; Vol. 10 No. 4 (2019): Studia et Documenta Slavica; 57-69;
  Studia et Documenta Slavica; Tom 10 Nr 4 (2019): Studia et Documenta Slavica; 57-69;
  2658-1620;
  2544-5634
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Opolskiego
• Relation: https://czasopisma.uni.opole.pl/index.php/sds/article/view/2636/2109
• Subject:
  sacred prostitution;
  religious prostitution;
  ritual prostitution;
  sacred prostitutes;
  holy harlots
• Identifier: https://czasopisma.uni.opole.pl/index.php/sds/article/view/2636
• Data provider:
  Platforma Czasopism Uniwersytetu Opolskiego
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  text