Pagan temples, sex & weed

Ancient pagan cultures globally had temples where women were used as prostitutes of the gods, and they used marijuana to drug themselves and the men. 

ANCIENT SHRINE REVEALS HOW MARIJUANA WAS USED TO EVOKE "RELIGIOUS ECSTASY"

This pagan practice has been long known by Historians and Christians all the way back to babel, but recent news brought this to light again, mostly to those who didnt know. 

The both did drugs, and used them to dope people up in the air space around them at the temples.  

Recently, scientists found evidence of some of the oldest canabis in history. Deep in the inner sanctum of an 8th century BC shrine, worshippers weren’t just burning incense. They were also burning marijuana.

In a fortress excavated in the 1960s, scientists found evidence of a religious shrine, containing cult objects and two stone altars with marijuana on it. 

The scientists found trace evidence of

 Δ9-teterahydrocannabinol (THC), cannabidiol (CBD), and cannabinol (CBN) — all chemicals that are present in marijuana.

The findings published in a middle eastern journal in 2022, noted, cannabis was often involved in cult rituals, "to evoke a type of “religious ecstasy.”

“The fact that they were bringing cannabis from afar,  into the temple and putting it onto a different altar, is why we assume that it was for the purposes of this ecstasy and not anything else.” 

On the cannabis altar, the team found evidence of terpenes, the chemicals that give cannabis its fragrance which suggests that cannabis flowers had been burned. The cannabis provided a window into another level of religious life in the ancient world. 

The 1st evidence of the use of canabis as a psychoactive goes back far further than the 8th century BC. In 2019, scientists found evidence of THC in incense burners found in central Asia.

The authors of that study suggested that these finds were evidence that people were using marijuana in a religious context. Those people lived roughly 2,500 years ago.

Ecstasy or a religious state of consciousness was part of the temple cults.

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Pagan temple prostitutes used weed and it was used to dope up the prostitites and the worshipers who came for free sex.

Religious prostitution has been adopted as a sign of distinction by ancient pagan prostitutes, modern pagans and practitioners of sex magic

In ancient Greece, sacred prostitution was known in the city of Corinth where the Temple of Aphrodite had a significant number of females during classical antiquity.

The prostitutes were a former slave freed from slavery in order to be dedicated to "a god".

Called female "priests", usually only girls younger than 14, worked within temples and served the sexual requests of temple visitors.

They were told the action of sexual service and sexual pleasure was an act of devotion to the goddess of love, Aphrodite, whom they worshipped.

In the Greek-influenced and colonized world, "sacred prostitution" was known in Cyprus (Greek-settled since 1100 BC), Sicily (Hellenized since 750 BC), in the Kingdom of Pontus (8th century BC) and in Cappadocia (c. 330 BC hellenized). Early texts describe sacred prostitution in a temple under the reign of the Hellenistic ruler Antiochus IV Epiphanes.

In these regions there was also a custom that before marriage, girls had to offer themselves for sex, at a temple.

Some parts of India state have the practice of hierodulic prostitution. Where pre-pubescent and young adolescent girls from villages were put into a ritual marriage to a Hindu deity or a Hindu temple, who then work in the temple as prostitutes servicing male devotees in the temple. Most of the children were forced into this  "service". 

In Japan, during the Kamakura period, many shrines and temples, which provided for miko, they were widely associated with prostitution

The Maya maintained several religious cults, involving homosexual temple prostitution

As did Aztecs, their god Xochipili (taken from both Toltec and Maya cultures) was both the patron of homosexuals and homosexual prostitutes

The Inca sometimes dedicated young boys as temple prostitutes. The boys were dressed in girl's clothing, and chiefs and head men would have ritual sexual intercourse with them during religious ceremonies and on holy days.

In the 1970s and early 1980s, some religious cults practised sacred prostitution in USA as an instrument to recruit new converts. And the leader was arrested for prostitution. 

Wicca pagans also have a religious  prostitution at temple, and is associated to spiritual healing and sex magic.

To Christians all of this is horrific and an abomination.

Satan inspired human religions incorporated drug use in their rituals. Drug use was part of their worship.

 Goddess Diana wears a crown of poppy seeds. Worshippers consume opium while dancing in her presence. It has been said Plato drank mushroom tea at the Greek rites of Eleusius. Celts, Druids, Vikings they all consumed drugs in worshipping their deities. In 1502, in the coronation of Montezuma, the Aztecs ate the sacred mushrooms containing psilocybin as part of their religious ritual. They offered prisoners and their hearts as sacrifices. The intoxicating drugs and human sacrifices went hand in hand. 

In 2004, in England, at the Stonehenge Festival the drug of choice is mushrooms. It contains psilocybin. With the rise of paganism, the religious drug use is coming back. In these pagan festivals, people intoxicate themselves with drugs. That is part of worship.

India Has the Holi festival every year. That is not Holy but holi. In this festival for the deity Shiva, people would sing and dance in the streets and drink "marijuana mixed with milk" .

The hippies from California really loved this festival. In the 1960 and 1970, the hippies adopted pot-smoking from their Indian gurus. 

So, even to this day, we see marijuana as part of worship in some religions. Some historians note the Christian faith was the reason for the decline of drug use in Western culture. Now, sadly, with the decline of Christian faith, we have an epidemic of drug use in our western society.