To: TomSmedley
The very word "celibacy" traces back to the rites of self-castration practiced by the devotees of Cybele, the prototypical suffering mother goddess.I'm sorry, but I just don't believe that etymology. The "y/upsilon" to ae and then to "e", the exchanging places of the l and the b -- I just don't think so. Can you give some documentation or refer me to someone who can?
3,746 posted on
01/03/2007 6:10:44 PM PST by
Mad Dawg
(Now we are all Massoud)
To: Mad Dawg
Can you give some documentation or refer me to someone who can?Wish I could -- it's just a factoid dredged up from a sargasso-style memory. Which usually is accurate, but not always.
3,806 posted on
01/04/2007 7:48:18 AM PST by
TomSmedley
(Calvinist, optimist, home schooling dad, exuberant husband, technical writer)
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