The prophet's dictionary guide to the supernatural

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Qadesh to Ruth

1224. Qadesh—Syrian name of the goddess of sacred love; that is, ritual sex acts. The term is used often in the Old Testament for a temple or a cult prostitute as a ritual harlot. The word can be found, as was the custom, in city, town, and village names to signify the deity its people worshipped over all the others. Sometimes it is spelled Kadesh in the Bible. The ultimate meaning of the word is that the area bearing the name or its variants was primarily a fertility cult. 1225. Qedeshem—Hebrew word for male ritual prostitutes. It means sodomite. 1226. Qedeshot—Hebrew word for female ritual prostitutes. It means harlot. 1227. Qetesh—A Syrian goddess in ancient Egypt that is the equivalent of Hathor, the mother goddess. 1228. Queen—Royalty in feminine form; female power. In old times, and in some countries today, a female deity. 1229. Queen of Heaven—The title to the goddess figure worshipped by ancient peoples and adopted by the Jews. As with all deities who earned the right to be venerated, it was a natural event or disaster or astral phenomenon that elevated or created its imagery and worship. Diana of Ephesus, for example, was worshipped as the image that fell from heaven. The religion built around this event included images being crafted of her and temples erected to provide a home for her images. See Acts 19:35. Venus, Astarte, Aphrodite, Ishtar, Anat, and the biblical Ashtoreth are all designated as queen of heaven goddesses. It is well understood that the queen of heaven was a fertility goddess worshipped with aphrodisiac cake, intoxicating incense offerings, and various libations. Her designation as a heavenly goddess as opposed to an earthly deity or one of the netherworld, signifies that this goddess was associated with the celestial bodies of the skies and accorded astral worship. Her lofty abode from which she was seen to commute back and forth to earth was the basis of her powers that were seen to encompass the elements and forces of the sky and the earth. The fertility