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Excerpt from A Study of the Greek Priestess: A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of the Department of Literature, Science, and Arts of the University of Michigan for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy
The purpose of this treatise is to consider more fully the custom of having resemblance in sex between divinity and priesthood, and to show by detailed evidence to what extent such a custom prevailed among the Greeks and upon what underlying principles it was based. Cults of the Greek States, I, p. 320: As a rule, the Greek goddess was served by priestesses and worshipped with the sacrifice of female victims; but in the ritual of Athena, as of Aphrodite, we find not infrequently the male victim and the priest. I bid., IV, p. 33 (speaking of the priestess of Poseidon at Thebes): Certainly this is a singular exception to the usual rule of Greek ritual that a male deity should be served by a male ministrant. Cf. Ibid., IV, p. 223. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
