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And a virile god is worthless without some hot goddesses to chase around!
In ancient Near Eastern religions,
Ishtar is a recurring goddess of love, fertility, and war. She headed a cult of Holy Whores, ran a place referred to as "town of the sacred courtesans", and earned herself the title "courtesan of the gods".
According to our buddy Gilgamesh, she was even down with bestiality:
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Listen to me while I tell the tale of your lovers. There was Tammuz, the lover of your youth, for him you decreed wailing, year after year. You loved the many-coloured roller, but still you struck and broke his wing [...] You have loved the lion tremendous in strength: seven pits you dug for him, and seven. You have loved the stallion magnificent in battle, and for him you decreed the whip and spur and a thong [...] You have loved the shepherd of the flock; he made meal-cake for you day after day, he killed kids for your sake. You struck and turned him into a wolf; now his own herd-boys chase him away, his own hounds worry his flanks."
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Another important goddess was the Hindu
Kali. Kali has been the goddess of many things to many; from the goddess of destruction, corpses, and war, to the goddess of benevolence, motherly creation, and Brahman("ultimate reality").
She also knew how to party like a true god(dess), as this excerpt from the wiki shows:
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In her most famous pose as Daksinakali, it is said that Kali, becoming drunk on the blood of her victims on the battlefield, dances with destructive frenzy. In her fury she fails to see the body of her husband Shiva who lies among the corpses on the battlefield.[21] Ultimately the cries of Shiva attract Kali's attention, calming her fury. As a sign of her shame at having disrespected her husband in such a fashion, Kali sticks out her tongue.
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