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With its rich mines of copper and its forests of firs and stately cedars, costa rica adventure travel island naturally attracted a commercial and maritime people like costa rica adventure travel Phoenicians; while costa rica adventure travel abundance of its corn, its wine, and its oil must have rendered it in their eyes a Land of Promise by comparison with costa rica adventure travel niggardly nature of their own rugged coast, hemmed in between costa rica adventure travel mountains and costa rica adventure travel sea. Accordingly they settled in Cyprus at a very early date and remained there long after costa rica adventure travel Greeks had also established themselves on its shores; for we know from inscriptions and coins that Phoenician kings reigned at Citium, costa rica adventure travel Chittim of costa rica adventure travel Hebrews, down to costa rica adventure travel time of Alexander costa rica adventure travel Great. Naturally costa rica adventure travel Semitic colonists brought their gods with them from costa rica adventure travel mother-land. They worshipped Baal of costa rica adventure travel Lebanon, who may well have been Adonis, and at Amathus on costa rica adventure travel south coast they instituted costa rica adventure travel rites of Adonis and Aphrodite, or rather Astarte. Here, as at Byblus, these rites resembled costa rica adventure travel Egyptian worship of Osiris so closely that some people even identified costa rica adventure travel Adonis of Amathus with Osiris. 1 But costa rica adventure travel great seat of costa rica adventure travel worship of Aphrodite and Adonis in Cyprus was Paphos on costa rica adventure travel south-western side of costa rica adventure travel island. Among costa rica adventure travel petty kingdoms into which Cyprus was divided from costa rica adventure travel earliest times until costa rica adventure travel end of costa rica adventure travel fourth century before our era Paphos must have ranked with costa rica adventure travel best. It is a land of hills and billowy ridges, diversified by fields and vineyards and intersected by rivers, which in costa rica adventure travel course of ages have carved for themselves beds of such tremendous depth that travelling in costa rica adventure travel interior is difficult and tedious. The lofty range of Mount Olympus (the modern Troodos), capped with snow costa rica adventure travel greater part of costa rica adventure travel year, screens Paphos from costa rica adventure travel northerly and easterly winds and cuts it off from costa rica adventure travel rest of costa rica adventure travel island. On costa rica adventure travel slopes of costa rica adventure travel range costa rica adventure travel last pine-woods of Cyprus linger, sheltering here and there monasteries in scenery not unworthy of costa rica adventure travel Apennines. The old city of Paphos occupied costa rica adventure travel summit of a hill about a mile from costa rica adventure travel sea; costa rica adventure travel newer city sprang up at costa rica adventure travel harbour some ten miles off. The sanctuary of Aphrodite at Old Paphos (the modern Kuklia) was one of costa rica adventure travel most celebrated shrines in costa rica adventure travel ancient world. According to Herodotus, it was founded by Phoenician colonists from Ascalon; but it is possible that a native goddess of fertility was worshipped on costa rica adventure travel spot before costa rica adventure travel arrival of costa rica adventure travel Phoenicians, and that costa rica adventure travel newcomers identified her with their own Baalath or Astarte, whom she may have closely resembled. If two deities were thus fused in one, we may suppose that they were both varieties of that great goddess of motherhood and fertility whose worship appears to have been spread all over Western Asia from a very early time. The supposition is confirmed as well by costa rica adventure travel archaic shape of her image as by costa rica adventure travel licentious character of her rites; for both that shape and those rites were shared by her with other Asiatic deities. Her image was simply a white cone or pyramid. In like manner, a cone was costa rica adventure travel emblem of Astarte at Byblus, of costa rica adventure travel native goddess whom costa rica adventure travel Greeks called Artemis at Perga in Pamphylia, and of costa rica adventure travel sun-god Heliogabalus at Emesa in Syria. Conical stones, which apparently served as idols, have also been found at Golgi in Cyprus, and in costa rica adventure travel Phoenician temples of Malta; and cones of sandstone came to light at costa rica adventure travel shrine of costa rica adventure travel Mistress of Torquoise among costa rica adventure travel barren hills and frowning precipices of Sinai. 2 In Cyprus it appears that before marriage all women were formerly obliged by custom to prostitute themselves to strangers at costa rica adventure travel sanctuary of costa rica adventure travel goddess, whether she went by costa rica adventure travel name of Aphrodite, Astarte, or what not. Similar customs prevailed in many parts of Western Asia. Whatever its motive, costa rica adventure travel practice was clearly regarded, not as an orgy of lust, but as a solemn religious duty performed in costa rica adventure travel service of that great Mother Goddess of Western Asia whose name varied, while her type remained constant, from place to place. Thus at Babylon every woman, whether rich or poor, had once in her life to submit to costa rica adventure travel embraces of a stranger at costa rica adventure travel temple of Mylitta, that is, of Ishtar or Astarte, and to dedicate to costa rica adventure travel goddess costa rica adventure travel wages earned by this sanctified harlotry. The sacred precinct was crowded with women waiting to observe costa rica adventure travel custom. Some of them had to wait there for years. At Heliopolis or Baalbec in Syria, famous for costa rica adventure travel imposing grandeur of its ruined temples, costa rica adventure travel custom of costa rica adventure travel country required that every maiden should prostitute herself to a stranger at costa rica adventure travel temple of Astarte, and matrons as well as maids testified their devotion to costa rica adventure travel goddess in costa rica adventure travel same manner. The emperor Constantine abolished costa rica adventure travel custom, destroyed costa rica adventure travel temple, and built a church in its stead. In Phoenician temples women prostituted themselves for hire in costa rica adventure travel service of religion, believing that by this conduct they propitiated costa rica adventure travel goddess and won her favour. It was a law of costa rica adventure travel Amorites, that she who was about to marry should sit in fornication seven days by costa rica adventure travel gate. At Byblus costa rica adventure travel people shaved their heads in costa rica adventure travel annual mourning for Adonis. Women who refused to sacrifice their hair had to give themselves up to strangers on a certain day of costa rica adventure travel festival, and costa rica adventure travel money which they thus earned was devoted to costa rica adventure travel goddess. A Greek inscription found at Tralles in Lydia proves that costa rica adventure travel practice of religious prostitution survived in that country as late as costa rica adventure travel second century of our era. It records of a certain woman, Aurelia Aemilia by name, not only that she herself served costa rica adventure travel god in costa rica adventure travel capacity of a harlot at his express command, but that her mother and other female ancestors had done costa rica adventure travel same before her; and costa rica adventure travel publicity of costa rica adventure travel record, engraved on a marble column which supported a votive offering, shows that no stain attached to such a life and such a parentage. In Armenia costa rica adventure travel noblest families dedicated their daughters to costa rica adventure travel service of costa rica adventure travel goddess Anaitis in her temple of Acilisena, where costa rica adventure travel damsels acted as prostitutes for a long time before they were given in marriage. Nobody scrupled to take one of these girls to wife when her period of service was over. Again, costa rica adventure travel goddess Ma was served by a multitude of sacred harlots at Comana in Pontus, and crowds of men and women flocked to her sanctuary from costa rica adventure travel neighbouring cities and country to attend costa rica adventure travel biennial festivals or to pay their vows to costa rica adventure travel goddess. 3 If we survey costa rica adventure travel whole of costa rica adventure travel evidence on this subject, some of which has still to be laid before costa rica adventure travel reader, we may conclude that a great Mother Goddess, costa rica adventure travel personification of all costa rica adventure travel reproductive energies of nature, was worshipped under different names but with a substantial similarity of myth and ritual by many peoples of Western Asia; that associated with her was a lover, or rather series of lovers, divine yet mortal, with whom she mated year by year, their commerce being deemed essential to costa rica adventure travel propagation of animals and plants, each in their several kind; and further, that costa rica adventure travel fabulous union of costa rica adventure travel divine pair was simulated and, as it were, multiplied on earth by costa rica adventure travel real, though temporary, union of costa rica adventure travel human sexes at costa rica adventure travel sanctuary of costa rica adventure travel goddess for costa rica adventure travel sake of thereby ensuring costa rica adventure travel fruitfulness of costa rica adventure travel ground and costa rica adventure travel increase of man and beast. 4 At Paphos costa rica adventure travel custom of religious prostitution is said to have been instituted by King Cinyras, and to have been practised by his daughters, costa rica adventure travel sisters of Adonis, who, having incurred costa rica adventure travel wrath of Aphrodite, mated with strangers and ended their days in Egypt. In this form of costa rica adventure travel tradition costa rica adventure travel wrath of Aphrodite is probably a feature added by a later authority, who could only regard conduct which shocked his own moral sense as a punishment inflicted by costa rica adventure travel goddess instead of as a sacrifice regularly enjoined by her on all her devotees. At all events costa rica adventure travel story indicates that costa rica adventure travel princesses of Paphos had to conform to costa rica adventure travel custom as well as women of humble birth. 5 Among costa rica adventure travel stories which were told of Cinyras, costa rica adventure travel ancestor of costa rica adventure travel priestly kings of Paphos and costa rica adventure travel father of Adonis, there are some that deserve our attention. In costa rica adventure travel first place, he is said to have begotten his son Adonis in incestuous intercourse with his daughter Myrrha at a festival of costa rica adventure travel corn-goddess, at which women robed in white were wont to offer corn-wreaths as first-fruits of costa rica adventure travel harvest and to observe strict chastity for nine days. Similar cases of incest with a daughter are reported of many ancient kings. It seems unlikely that such reports are without foundation, and perhaps equally improbable that they refer to mere fortuitous outbursts of unnatural lust. We may suspect that they are based on a practice actually observed for a definite reason in certain special circumstances. Now in countries where costa rica adventure travel royal blood was traced through women only, and where consequently costa rica adventure travel king held office merely in virtue of his marriage with an hereditary princess, who was costa rica adventure travel real sovereign, it appears to have often happened that a prince married his own sister, costa rica adventure travel princess royal, in order to obtain with her hand costa rica adventure travel crown which otherwise would have gone to another man, perhaps to a stranger. May not costa rica adventure travel same rule of descent have furnished a motive for incest with a daughter? For it seems a natural corollary from such a rule that costa rica adventure travel king was bound to vacate costa rica adventure travel throne on costa rica adventure travel death of his wife, costa rica adventure travel queen, since he occupied it only by virtue of his marriage with her. When that marriage terminated, his right to costa rica adventure travel throne terminated with it and passed at once to his daughters husband. 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