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Updated: June 14, 2025
On the other hand, Herodotus does not appear to have understood the religious significance of the custom that he designates as 'shameful. The name given to the harlot among Babylonians and Hebrews, Kadishtu or K'deshâ, that is, 'the sacred one, is sufficient evidence that, at its origin, the rite was not the product of obscene tendencies, but due to naïve conceptions connected with the worship of Ishtar as the goddess of fertility.
The Ishtar priestess was known by the general term of Kadishtu, that is, 'the holy one, or Ishtaritum, 'devoted to Ishtar'; but, from the various other names for the sacred harlot that we come across, it would appear that the priestesses were divided into various classes, precisely like the priests.
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