Hieros gamos, hieros (ἱερός) meaning "holy" or "sacred" and gamos (γάμος) meaning "marriage," or Hierogamy (Greek ἱερὸς γάμος, ἱερογαμία "holy marriage")...

religious worship, possibly as a form of fertility rite or divine marriage (hieros gamos). Scholars prefer the terms "sacred sex" or "sacred sexual rites" in...

with his 'water'". The cosmogenic myth common in Sumer was that of the hieros gamos, a sacred marriage where divine principles in the form of dualistic opposites...

God and earth Goddess known to the Classical Greeks much later as the hieros gamos. He states that the same principles also explain the placement of megaliths...

highly formalized and/or part of religious activity, as in the cases of hieros gamos, the hierodule, and Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.). Part of the rites...

short descriptions of redirect targets History of erotic depictions Hieros gamos – Divine marriage Karezza – Sexual practice Karmamudrā – Vajrayana Buddhist...

to have been his mother and consort, with the two participating in an hieros gamos. The cult of Velchanos was likely influenced by the Mesopotamian deity...

Many scholars believe that the poem was acted out, perhaps in a sort of hiéros gamos. The prose prologue to the poem says that the god Freyr, the son of Njörðr...

of the male and female in one, possibly being inspired by the Rebis. Hieros gamos Nondualism Unity of opposites Robert Allen Bartlett, Real Alchemy: A...

practices Funeral oration Greco-Roman mysteries Hero cult Heroon Hierophany Hieros gamos Hymns Incubation Komos Nekyia Omophagia Orgia Panegyris Prayer Sacrifice...