The story of the sanctified (holy) prostitution is present already in the
eldest known preserved Summerian tablet - the Epic of Gilgamesh.
It is believed to be 5,000 to 6,000 years old, so it is by right called the
eldest profession.

Prostitution seems to start around the first human settlements and the
first agrarian culture of the Summerian people.

What does the Epic say? When we compare it to the Biblical story of Nimrod,
the first mighty man who exalted himself as a ruler over the others in the
history after the great Deluge ... Though there were obvious evils in the old
world, or it wouldn't end in the first place, the evidence of Nimrod who
compelled the entire human race to build him a tower to Heaven was the
sign that the Flood did not stop the evil in the blood of humans.

God Creator intervened only to prevent the first totalitarian State: His
benign and non-violent solution mixed the languages of the people.
Now they could no longer understand each other, and they became
disinterested in the tower to Heaven, so they spread across the Earth.

But Nimrod appears to have had many wives, which would be expected
from a mighty ruler before monogamy was mandated by the Church,
yet this is a speculation. No written record in the Scriptures proves this.

Nimrod's main wife and mother was believed to be Semiramis.
Eventually, Semiramis became to be worshipped as a goddess.
Nimrod's deification goes different way - he died, underwent rebirth
and was born as a child of his wife Semiramis, called Tammuz.
(During the Babylonian exile, Hebrews adopted the name of the Babylonian
son of god as the name of one of their months. So certain bad events
happened to them in the month of Tammuz, which they believed in
their rabinic teaching to be a spell or destiny.)

So, Semiramis, who is connected with the holy and sanctified prostitution
cult that later became the Temple of Love dedicated to Ishtar (Ashtoreth
in the Old Testament, when it was adopted as worship by Solomon's
pagan wives, which he allegedly approved in his old age.)

This Semiramis became the first mother of Son of God, Tammuz, who
underwent the death-rebirth cycle. This Mother and Child figure is later
adopted throughout heathen religions. In fact, heathen is a better word,
because ritual cults involved carefully ordained ritual washing in
"water of purification" , which had some lye or a firefirm of soap,
after which the sanctified prostitute (kadesh in Hebrew) became clean,
pure and innocent again.

They also started to nurture art and culture just like later Geishas
in Japan or the Venetian courtesans.

The image and worship of the Mother of God became adopted through
this early Babylonian cult.

Second independent confirmation of this cult is from the very Epic of
Gilgamesh, where Gilgamesh and the Temple priestesses were offended
that wild Enkidu rejected their services, so they made a ploy to help
Gilgamesh subue him. Enkidu was not at all interested in politics, but in
animals and nature, but he could not suffer a man that wasn't subjected
to him as a ruler even if no threat to his throne. Eventually, the cult of
holy prostitution helped Gilgamesh finding Enkidu's weakness, after
which the king "overcame Enkidu like one overcomes a woman", after
which they became friends. Today this is commonly understood as an act
of homosexuality, but in Summerian it might have meant that Enkindu's
strength was lost like maybe Samson's (and a prostitute had a role in
discovering Samson's weakness, too.)

The cult of Ishtar was based that she was the first woman with such a divine
impact on men that she reached immortality through this cult of sexual
services and was ascended to heaven - so really Ishtar was the first
"Queen of Heaven".

In one version of the epic, she offered Gilgamesh marriage with lust
offers which he rejected with insults that prompt her to seek revenge
as rejected woman (an archetype seen in Genesis 39 when Joseph was
accused exactly of what he escaped from).

Ishtar in revenge sabotaged Gilgamesh's quest to find immortality.

Later, Ishtar is married to Son of God Tammuz, her own brother,
and she descends to the Underworld to save him from death, walking
through the nine gates.

At each gate, she has to leave a part of her apparel, so by the time
she gets to save the son of God she is completely naked. This prompts him
to mock her, at which she forgets that she came to save him and she curses
him, which is the probable reason for his next cycle of death and rebirth.

Throughout the religions of the nations, from that earliest point on, came
the notion that Father god marries a mortal woman, who gives birth to a
son of god, and she is granted immortality and becomes the Queen of
Heaven.

But eventually, we can discern the tree by its fruits.

The cult of Ishtar (Ashtoreth or Astarte) is the eldest known cult
in the recorded history, and she is the eldest worshipped deity
(of love and war).

But the idea where a prostitute or an immoral woman, cheating, adulterous
woman gets power by courting powerful men remained prevalent in society.
One of the most striking examples is that of Jezebel, wife of Israel's king
Ahab. The other example is Herodias and her daughter Salome who
cause the death of john the Baptist for he criticised against her marriage
with her former husband's brother. However, she thought that she was
above the Law of Moses due to her power and influence. Indeed, she demonstrated the power to plot and successfully cause the holy
prophet's death.

Which then might impose a question: if John the Baptist was a prophet
of the Almighty God, why hasn't Almighty saved him like He saved Elijah?
But we know from the Scriptures that majority of the Hebrews in the
time continued to believe that John was the true prophet, as he confessed
their sins baptising them, and those who accepted the baptism of John
later also accepted Jesus Christ almost by the rule - the scribes and
the Pharisees thought they were too exalted for a man in skin and
virtually naked to baptise them, so they were unprepared for Jesus Christ,
did not recognise him, murdered him and brought condemnation upon themselves, persisting later against the Stephen the first martyr
and the entire Path until it was eradicated from the Jews and it remained
only in the heathen Greece and Rome in Little Asia where the apostles
preached.

However, Jesus knew that all prostitues were not evil like those in power,
who came to political or religious influence. We see that from using his
influence, persuasion, preaching and power to save Mary Magdalene.
In fact, she was his greatest disciple and the first person he appeared to
after his resurrection.

This is the message to all girls and women that they *can* achieve
not immortality but eternal life by the way of Mary Magdalene: through
denying Satan, confessing sins and accepting Jesus as Saviour.

In what way is then Jesus different from Tammuz, who is also the
Babylonian son of god (Nimrod, the first ruler)?

The idea that ruler has divine right has Nimrod's origin. Before that, men
were free to decide what to do. He was the first deified ruler, before the pharaohs of Egypt. The second claim is that through the political power
and wealth men can achieve immortality, and women can achieve immortality through the use of seduction of man god and sexual lust.
They give birth to the offspring which is no longer equal but "noble",
half-divine, with the natural, god-given, inherited right to rule over others.

This becomes also the church doctrine after the Nicean council in
325 AD, after which the new version of Christianity becomes the
official religion of the Roman empire, and later succeeds in destruction
of the heathen religions of Greece and Rome, often through syncretism
and adoption.

Which seems like a great wisdom, because more people accept Jesus
and Mary. But Mother of God is nothing like the humble girl Mary from
Nazareth. You could say that Mary, as many persons, became different
person ascending to Power. Or that this is not the same person.

Jesus said that we shall know the tree by its fruits: wars sending
countless sheep to die for the State and their exploiters and oppressors,
indulgences, inquisition, witch hunt, pedophilia scandals, ... to name a few.
Brutal genocides on Hugenots and Cathars. Extermination of Slavonic
Bogomils, and so many heresies, by "fire and sword", and not that of the
Word and the Holy Spirit ...

Can they be connected with the girl who said she is the servantmaid
of God? How did she become His mother? Or the Lamb of God?

Who is then the "Queen of Heaven" and "Mother of God" and "God Jesus,
equal to God the Father"?

Are not their fruits more like those of the goddess of war Ishtar and her
husband/son Nimrod/Tammuz?

We see the fruits of the first church, and the fruits of the church of Rome.

Jesus was indeed a Lamb-like figure who never hit anyone, nor took a
sword. So was John.

But there are other examples, like prophet Elijah who mass-executed
450 prophets of Baal at the Kidron creek. So, not all use of sword to
defend faith is to be automatically discarded - but the problem is in
the above-mentioned fruits of the tre of Rome, the very concept of
defending the Nimrod and Semiramis-established cult of personality
would probably end up in a totalitarian government over the
entire Earth, had not God came down and confused the languages (Babel).