The Readings

The readings.

Listen, we all know the readings have gotten progressively easier as they've become more and more modern, but with the story of Landval and the Lay of Chevefoil, the ease of reading has become increased dramatically. Then we come to Dante's inferno. With the inferno the ease fo reading has been set back to Iliad levels, at least in my opinion. Its over saturated with heavy language, extreme similes, and the pettiness of the greeks. My belief is that Dante resumes this over saturation as a way to model the greeks similar way of being extreme about everything, following in the steps of the Romans for stealing works of the greeks, and following in his hero, Virgil's, footsteps.

Sexuality in Mesopotamia

Sex.  The basis of our society and repopulation. but for many of you us in western society sex is regarded as something shame-full and not to be talked about.  But why is this the way it is? For something so important to every species on earth, and as one of the few species who do it specifically for pleasure why is it such a taboo subject?

In Mesopotamian literature, it is clear that sex is freely talked about and accepted. Inanna, for instance, is so wooed by her own Vulva that she stopped and gazed at it in wonder. With the Holy Me’s Inanna was gifted with the art of kissing the Phallus. In both the stories of Inanna and the Epic of Gilgamesh there are references to temple harlots. Priestesses who are regularly engaged in ritualistic sex for the main pantheon of gods. In Gilgamesh, there are even examples off gay relationships that are common and accepted in the day to day of heroes. Even in the Iliad, references to sex and keeping women besides wives for purposes of consummating is seen to be the norm by the Greeks.

         Why then, if these things are so common in the origins of many peoples, if not most, Is it so taboo in our current day to day society? How was sex changed from something to be proud of to something to keep closed behind doors?