Sex Is Violence/Oral Tradition

Examples of Sex Is Violence in Oral Tradition include:

• Egyptian stories say that during his final battle with Horus, the god Set sometimes said things that... may have a few meanings...
  • In one version, Horus also ripped off his balls.
• In Celtic Mythology, the Morrigan is goddess of both fertility and war. Sex and death, right there, what more do you want?
  • Astarte of Phoenician, Syrian, Canaanite and later Egyptian mythology was also a goddess of fertility and war, parallel to Ishtar.
• Classical Mythology had intercourse of sex and violence, what with the god of war Ares always running off and having affairs with the goddess of love Aphrodite.
  • Eros, the God of Love, was this trope. Ancient Greek soldiers would pray to him before going into battle; sex and violence were understood to be two sides of the same coin.
• Inanna/Ishtar: Sumerian/Babylonian Goddess of love, fertility, and war.
• The Voodoo god of death is also the god of sexuality... in addition to being a great healer, which seems a little at odds with the "death" thing...
  • It Makes Sense in Context — if he decides not to dig your grave, you'll recover... instead of simply not actually dying.
• Norse mythology: Freyja as well was a goddess of love and sex, who had more than her share of martial aspects. In fact, she received the half of the battle-dead not claimed by Odin.

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