Comments by "craxd1" (@craxd1) on "Occult Literature 381: Babylonians and Assyrians; Life and Customs" video.
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Some of those ancient groups' sacred rites supposedly involved having sex with a horse, and that made its way to Ireland at one time. This would have been with some of the so-called Barbarian tribes.
From Giraldus Cambrensis' Topographia Hibernia:
“There are some things which, if the exigencies of my account did not demand it, shame would discountenance their being described. But the austere discipline of history spares neither truth nor modesty. There is in the northern and farther part of Ulster, namely Kenelcunill [Tyrconnell], a certain people which is accustomed to consecrate its king with a rite altogether outlandish and abominable. When the whole people of that land has been gathered together in one place, a white mare is brought forward into the middle of the assembly. He who is to be inaugurated, not as chief, but as a beast, not as a king, but as an outlaw, embraces the animal before all, professing himself to be a beast also. The mare is then killed immediately, cut up in pieces, and boiled in water. A bath is prepared for the man afterwards in the same water. He sits in the bath surrounded by all his people, and all, he and they, eat of the meat of the mare which is brought to them. He quaffs and drinks of the broth in which he is bathed, not in any cup, or using his hand, but just dipping his mouth into it round about him. When this unrighteous rite has been carried out, his kingship and dominion has been conferred…” [SIC]
In the Middle East, it was more about hierodoulēs or sacred pro####ution. Both, though, are tied to fertility.
"In the temples of Ishtar, Astarte, Mâ, Anahita, and Aphrodite, for example, women, often virgins, offered themselves sexually to strangers. Sometimes the temples were staffed by such "sacred pro####utes." Their actions were ritual components of the cult of the goddess in question. In ancient Greece, the word for such women was hierodoulē, or "sacred servant." The term used here, hierodouleia ("sacred service"), refers to the ritual."
"The Babylonian evidence indicates that a distinction between cultic and profane sexuality is both ancient and persistent. It is very possible that the distinction became blurred or perhaps even totally obliterated in the minds of most Westerners because in the Hebrew scriptures the term used for the cultic sexual activity of both male and female temple servants—znh, "to pro####ute oneself"—is also used to refer to apostasy (Hos. 2:7, 4:15; Jer. 2:20, 3:6, 3:8; Ez. 16:15, 23:3, 23:19; Is. 57:3). Sexual cultic activity became for the monotheist Yahvists synonymous with abandoning the worship of Yahveh and turning to false gods. Apostasy in the Bible is considered to be the worst of sins, hence terms referring to cultic sexual activity—pro####ution, harlotry, and whoredom —took on extremely negative connotations."__Encyclopedia
Sorry about hiding a certain word, but you know that censorship.
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