Goddess Diana
Summer 2015
Diana is one of the three female impersonators that were used to consecrated women into the societies of Rome. Much like the USA debates of religion and presidency, in ancient Rome, temple worship was also mandatory. It was necessary for Jewish girls to go and have their hymen erupted by a temple master, or the husband could be removed from the Jewish (Zoroastrian) societies. The reason being the blood vessel that runs across the hymen. Erupting the vessel with the phallus (penis) would create a violation of Jewish (Zoroastrian) Mosaic laws. Therefore, the females were sent to temples th have the hymen broke...normally by a vestal. If the betrothed failed to follow this creed he and his family would have to take a permanent lesser position in the community. Normally, they would end up working as a temple vestal because of the blood letting.
The Goddess Diana is one of the stages in the transfiguration of male/female in the primary god Apollo.