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A '''Cult of Herodias''' is mentioned in some medieval sources. |
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The 10th century a fragment of text called the ''[[Canon Episcopi]]'' (attributed to an otherwise-unknown Council of Anquira) made mention of it as ''a perversion of the mind originated by Satan'', and consider the fable of the flying women accompanied by Diana to be a ''fantasy experienced while dreaming''.{{cn}} |
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[[John of Salisbury]], [[Bishops of Chartres|Bishop of Chartres]] (12th century) mentions such a cult in ''Policraticus'', naming the goddess Herodias and [[Noctiluca (goddess)|Noctiluca]], queen of the night. He mentioned the supposed participation of women and men in these meetings. He too considered the existence of this cult to be a fable at best. |
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[[Carlo Ginzburg]] supposes that the nocturnal goddess was originally ''[[Hera]]-Diana'' or ''Herodiana'', and was later [[Conflation|conflated]] with the biblical character of ''[[Herodias]]''<ref>{{cite book |last=Ginzburg |first=Carlo |authorlink=Carlo Ginzburg |year=1990 |title=Ecstasies: Deciphering the witches' sabbath |publisher=Hutchinson Radius |location=London |id=ISBN 0-09-174024-X |pages=p. 104}}</ref> |
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==Wicca== |
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Among some modern [[Wicca]]ns, a similar figure is worshipped, called [[Aradia (goddess)|Aradia]]. This name was most likely adopted from [[Charles Godfrey Leland|C.G. Leland]]'s book ''[[Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches]]'' (1899), which claims to be the traditional lore of a 19th century Italian society of witches. This variation on the name Herodias (or Herodiana) is probably because in Late Latin and Italian the "h" is mute (the Italian form of ''Herodias'' is ''Erodiade'')<ref>{{cite journal | author=Magliocco, Sabina | title=Who Was Aradia? The History and Development of a Legend | journal=Pomegranate: The Journal of Pagan Studies, | year=2002 | volume=18 | pages= – | url=http://chass.colostate-pueblo.edu/natrel/pom/pom18/aradia.html | format={{dead link|date=June 2008}} – <sup>[http://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=intitle%3AWho+Was+Aradia%3F+The+History+and+Development+of+a+Legend&as_publication=Pomegranate%3A+The+Journal+of+Pagan+Studies%2C&as_ylo=2002&as_yhi=2002&btnG=Search Scholar search]</sup> }}</ref>. A similar figure from [[Romania]] is [[Doamna Zînelor]], also called ''Irodiada'' or ''Arada''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Ginzburg |first=Carlo |authorlink=Carlo Ginzburg |title=Ecstasies: Deciphering the witches' sabbath |year=1990 |location=London |publisher=Hutchinson Radius |id=ISBN 0-09-174024-X |pages=p. 103}}</ref> |
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==References== |
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{{reflist}} |
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==See also== |
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*[[Sexual orientation and Wicca]] |
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*[[Witch-cult hypothesis]] |
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*[[Skyclad (Neopaganism)|Skyclad]] |
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*[[History of Wicca]] |
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==External links== |
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* [http://www.constitution.org/salisbury/policrat123.htm John of Salisbury's Policraticus] |
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[[Category:Fictional religions]] |
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[[Category:Medieval legends]] |
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