The Eldest Profession
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This is not called that way by accident.
The oldest preserved literary work is the Epic of Gilgamesh.
By that time, it describes already developed and established practice
of the holy prostitutes in the Temple of Love, Fertility and War of the goddess Ishtar (later related to Ashtoreth in the Holy Bible).
The goddesses found the resilience of hero Enkidu to their charms an
insult to gods.
Eventually, the women in eldest profession despise any hard work and
loathe people who earn through sweat of their brow. They want everything purchased by the currency they won plenty, and to ascend to the position
of the economic, political, scientific, and religious power. Sometimes directly, but classically mostly over their puppet rulers, like Jezebel
used Ahab in the Book of Kings.
Their guidance is often that of whim and spiteful arrogance: though
Ahab owned as the king half of Israel, Jezebel conspired a plot against
poor Nabot and his sons to kill them and seize their rather modest
vineyard, that was not a ten-thousandth of what Ahab already possessed.
Eventually, it had cost him life and kingdom.
Jezebel ended up devoured by her own dogs, but for Nabot, the damage
was done.
He and his sons were accounted among the righteous ones.
in the LORD
Amen
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