Sacred whore

[Magdlyn]

You're welcome.

http://www.moondance.org/1997/summer...ion/sacred.htm

That goes into more detail. She makes a mistake tho, in quoting Barbara Walker, in her Dictionary of Woman's Myths and Secrets, who says that the Hebrew word hor means a cave, pit, or dark hole. This is incorrect. The Hebrew word hor means mountain and is not related to the English word whore.