misty-anne:lynati:hatchuu:gardenvarietycrime:Today’s fun surprise was seeing puella trans

misty-anne:lynati:hatchuu:gardenvarietycrime:Today’s fun surprise was seeing puella translated as “whore”.The other week it was seeing Fagles’ translation of Lacaena as “Spartan whore”op I love this because this is a problem in assyriology too and I was just bitching about it JUST today thinking about this exact same memeto selfishly quote parts of my thesis:“Budin(2009) attributes it to the almost century-long struggle scholars have inunderstanding terms such as harimtu, naditu and quadishtu [1] (pg. 20-31) as forms of ‘sacred prostitute’ [2].Brooks noted even in the early days of Assyriology that ‘the number of classesof women who [… have been] interpreted as priestess, votary, sacred prostitute,woman of any kind is surprisingly large’ (1923, pg. 189).[1]Budin (2009) suggests that these terms, primarily known from contemporaneouslegal literature, roughly mean as such: harimtu,‘a single woman not under authority of a father’ (pg. 26), naditu, a woman unable to bear children(pg. 23), and quadishtu, a type ofpriestess, perhaps a form of midwife (pg. 25). The terms entu, ishtaritu, kulmashitu, kezertu and shamhatu are also titles that have beenassociated with prostitution. [2]Budin (2009) defines this as ‘the sale of a person’s body for sexual purposes[…] where money or goods received for this transaction belongs to a deity’ (pg.3). Herodotus (fl. 450 BCE) described the Babylonian custom of ‘every woman ofthe land to sit in the temple of Aphrodite and have intercourse with somestranger once in her life’ (Herodotus, tr. Godley, 1.199, 1920).basically assyriologists thought a bunch of legal titles for different women were just names for prostitutes until recently (and some think sacred prostitution actually never existed) and herodotus did not help at allmale academians across all fields have a real bias it seemsTo some men out there, all women are whores. >.source link

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