Sacred Marriage

8 books featuring this theme

Sacred marriage is ritually framed union that legitimizes fertility and sovereignty. It aligns human institutions with cosmic generativity.

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Kojiki

O no Yasumaro • East Asian

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Kumarasambhava

Kalidasa • Indian

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The Book of Gates

Anonymous • Egyptian

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Hymns to Inanna

Various • Mesopotamian

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Book of the Night

Anonymous • Egyptian

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Orphic Hymns

Orphic tradition • Greek

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Catalogue of Women

Hesiod • Greek

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Dionysiaca

Nonnus of Panopolis • Greek