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Definition of Hierodules
1. hierodule [n] - See also: hierodule
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hierodules
Literary usage of Hierodules
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by Claude Hermann Walter Johns (1904)
"Let the hierodules come with them. For the sustenance of the goddesses embark
food, drink, sheep, ship's furniture, and travelling expenses for the ..."
2. Tammuz and Ishtar: A Monograph Upon Babylonian Religion and Theology by Stephen Langdon (1914)
"8 An incantation represents her with her harlots: ' To the hierodules • she took her
... her hierodules arranged in order.'' A letter of the famous king ..."
3. The Slave Systems of Greek and Roman Antiquity by William Linn Westermann (1955)
"... that is, official head of the district " and lord over the hierodules inhabiting
the city [of Comana] except for the right to sell them. ..."
4. Introduction to the History of Religions by Crawford Howell Toy (1913)
"A distinction may be made between priestesses proper and maidens (hierodules)
consecrated to such a deity as Aphrodite Pandemos; Solon's erection of a ..."
5. The Christian Tradition and Its Verification by Terrot Reaveley Glover (1913)
"Perhaps human sacrifices no longer continued in his day; the point is doubtful;
but the shrines of Aphrodite still kept harlots, hierodules, whose service ..."
6. Guide to the Cairo Museum by Gaston Maspero (1906)
"Only a very small number of priestly functions was reserved for women. They were
chiefly prophetesses or hierodules of Maut, and superiors of the ..."
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