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from the Akkadian qadishtu and Qudshu, the Syrian love and fertility
goddess. 959 A monument in Memphis calls Qudshu ‘the prostitute’. The
holy prostitute Tamar offers cakes, presumably barley cakes, to Amnon
before intercourse. 960 The Israelites eventually banned ritual or holy
prostitution ruling there shall be no QDSH of the daughters of Israel. 961
It is also interesting to note that the Greek word for a Palm Tree is
phoi’nix. Chapter 15 discussed the rebirth legend of the Phoenix.
Shakespeare’s curiously alchemical poem The Phoenix and the Turtle
echoes the profound role of the Araby tree. It begins:
Let the bird of loudest lay
On the sole Arabian tree
Herald sad and trumpet be,
To whose sound chaste wings obey.
But thou shrieking harbinger,
Foul precurer of the fiend,
Augur of the fever's end,
To this troop come thou not near.
From this session interdict
Every fowl of tyrant wing,
Save the eagle, feath'red king:
Keep the obsequy so strict.
Only the eagle, feathered king is included in the ceremony. The poem
ends with the Threnos in three-three time, the meter of the Triple
Goddess:
Beauty, truth and rarity,
Grace in all simplicity,
Here enclosed in cinders lie.
Death is now the phoenix' nest,
And the turtle's loyal breast
To eternity doth rest,
Leaving no posterity:
'Twas not their infirmity,
It was married chastity.
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