Talk:Hieros gamos

message: "However, it should be noted that this is not regularly practiced by Wiccans or part of Wiccan Doctrine or Dogma.[citation needed] Many wiccans would also find this practice rather taboo or digraceful.[citation needed] Rather, it is practiced by a few minor sects or individuals, similar to how some Christians might practice snake handling but it is hardly the standard Christian tradition.[citation needed]"
This should be removed as its a POV.  A better statment would be to state that the practice isn't followed by all Wiccans and leave out the Doctrine and Dogma parts.
SiLiCoNDragon 16:32, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I whole-heartedly agree with SiLiCoNDragon.  I don't know a single Witch who would find the very sacrosanct Sacred Union "disgraceful"!?  What absolute bullshit!   It is not practised by only "a few minor sects" at all!  On the contray, it is practised by all the hereditary and higher degree tradtions of whose rites I am aware... all of them.  I can only assume this 'wiccan' poster is a very young student of the Craft, not even a novice, not an initiate, and certainly not a Magi/Priest/Priestess;  and, at least in my opinion, it is quite likely that she/he is a former Christian at that, to have such an erroneous view of the Craft. Glorious Goddess (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 20:38, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wiccan 

message: In some cases, such as the "Sacred Marriage" of the king of a Sumerian city-state and the High Priestess of Inanna, it served a more practical purpose: since commoners frequently took this opportunity to have sex with their own spouses, it coordinated the births of children so that they would be born in the winter, when there was more time to take care of them.
Is there a source for this?  It sounds very strange to me, because 1) I don't have any children but I am told they are in some ways more trouble at 2 than as infants (Can carry infants on a Cradle board, for example),  2) Winter was probably a bad time for nutrition,  and 3) I doubt this would have a huge effect on birth rate (I don't know enormous numbers of people born near November 14). ArgentTurquoise 02:18, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source? 

message: Is there examples of historical kings and Pharaohs marrying their own daughters or sisters in belief that this is a from of royal/divine marriage? In the sense of maintaining purity of bloodlines?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.170.26.82 (talk) 18:52, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a good thing we have Wikipedia, check out Ptolemaic dynasty. --Finn Bjørklid (talk) 22:39, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incest/Inbreeding? 

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