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From: sandymac@sandymac.demon.co.uk (Alexander Maclennan) Newsgroups: alt.sex.wizards,alt.magick.sex,alt.magick.tantra,alt.magick.tyagi,alt.lucky.w,alt.magick,alt.magick.folk,alt.religion.sexuality Subject: Re: The Taxonomy of Sex and Magick Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 15:27:39 GMT tyagi@houseofkaos.abyss.com (nagasiva) wrote: >> On what authority do you state that the oracle at Delphi used a form of >> sexual magic to perform her services? > none of which I recall. _Python..._ comes to mind, but it may also have > been within one of the 'Sacred Prostitute' academia. I'll let you know > if I run across anything. This probably derives from Gerald Massey. I don`t have the original publications but Kenneth Grant refers with quotes to Massey on this in Aleister Crowley and the Hidden God pp 41ff. Massey describes an African rite and its replication at Samothrace rather than Delphi. I am sure I have seen the same regarding Delphi though. Grant has it crop up again in Voodoo, reasonably enough. -- Alexander MacLennan sandymac@sandymac.demon.co.uk
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