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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=454105" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Salome</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Salome, the unique daughter of Philip of Rome and Herodias, <br>Was the stepdaughter of the ruler of Galilee, Herod Antipas, <br>She wanted to find for her mother's problems a real solution<br>Therefore, she caused to St. John the Baptist a painful execution.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>This saint had condemned the marriage of Herod Antipas<br>With the divorced wife of his half brother Philip, Herodias.<br>Herod imprisoned John, but feared this great prophet to kill, <br>Because to become King Herod the Great he had a goodwill.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Herodias was not mollified by great John's incarceration<br>And wanted to induce Antipas a great mental state of elation.<br>She pressed beautiful Salome to seduce him with her dance, <br>Thinking that her smart daughter his emotions could enhance.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Salome made him to promise to give her everything she wanted.<br>Dancing the 'Dance of the Seven Veils', her beautiful figure she flaunted.<br>Salome, thus, asked for the head of John the Baptist on a platter, <br>At her mother's behest, for whom nothing else could ever matter.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Herod did her bidding and that platter, to her mother, Salome brought.<br>Her mother won, this way, the John's head for saving her free thought.<br>Salome became a seductress of a stepfather and a murderer of a saint, <br>Herodias became a symbol of women, who can live without any constraint.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Dance of the Seven Veils expresses the myth of the goddess Ishtar, <br>Also, the myth of the god Tammuz of Assyrian and Babylonian lore.<br>In this myth, Ishtar went in the underworld to visit Ereshkigal, her sister.<br>Ishtar passed through the seven gates and her power could glister.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At each gate, Ishtar had to shed an article of clothing, finally being nude.<br>Unleashing sixty diseases against her, Ereshkigal proved to be so rude.<br>Ishtar was imprisoned and all the sexual activity on earth ceased.<br>Papsukkal reported the situation to Ea, the king of the gods, at least.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Ea created the eunuch called Asu-shu-namir and sent him to Ereshkigal<br>To ask for the bag containing the waters of life, after Ishtar's last squeal.<br>She gave him this water and Asu-shu-namir sprinkled Ishtar, reviving her.<br>She came back and sent Tammuz to Ereshkigal, avoiding this story to recur.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ishtar was associated with sexuality, her cult involved sacred prostitution, <br>Her city Uruk was the 'town of the sacred courtesans', place of persecution.<br>Although for the god Ishtar, love was fatal, she treated her passing lovers cruelly, <br>And the unhappy wretches, for the favors heaped on them, paid dearly.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Philip the Tetrarch was the son of Cleopatra of Jerusalem and Herod the Great.<br>He was the brother of Herod Antipas and Herod Archelaus, he had a good fate.<br>He inherited north father's kingdom and by Luke (3: 1) in the Bible he’s mentioned.<br>He married the daughter of Herodias and Philip of Rome, that Salome so tensioned.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Marieta+Maglas">Marieta Maglas</a><div class=q>
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