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The hyper-fertility and emphasis on the female sexโ€™s reproductive capabilities that exist in the Cybelean myth manifests in the rites of the cult of Cybele in Rome. The priests of the cult of Cybele were male eunuchs. They would castrate themselves in the midst of sexual pleasure as a means of symbolically offering up their own fertility to the mother goddess.[14] The central rite of these eunuch priests was the taurobolium, first recorded in Pergamum in 105 A.D.[15] As told by Prudentius in the 4th-century A.D., the taurobolium involved the digging of a trench and placing of a grate on top. Then, a eunuch priest would enter into the pit in the ground. Shortly after, a bull would be sacrificed on top of this trench, allowing all of the animalโ€™s viscera to flow onto the priest. After the priest had been fully enveloped by every drop of bull blood โ€” โ€œtill he drains the deep dark blood with every poreโ€ โ€” the genitals of the bull are cut off and also ceremoniously thrown into the pit.[16] Such descriptions show how these ceremonies had close thematic links to birth. After being baptized by blood, initiated priests would often drink the milk of the animal, simulating having just been born.

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https://web.sas.upenn.edu/discentes/2020/08/28/blood-lead-and-tears-the-cult-of-cybele-as-a-means-of-addressing-ancient-roman-issues-of-fertility/
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HISTORY WORTH KNOWING since Pope Francis consecrated Russia and Ukaraine just last week ๐Ÿ‘€โ€ฆ interesting developmentsโ€ฆ

This is a quote from Irish priest Fr Malachi Martin, in an interview in the 1990s. Very relevant to our time!
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