Mullissu

Mylitta (Greek Μύλιττα ) was a persian time in Babylon worshiped by the Assyrians and Persians goddess who is equated by Herodotus of Aphrodite Urania or Aphrodite of the Greeks.

After the first book of the histories of Herodotus, each Babylonian Virgin of Mylitta honor had allegedly set once in a lifetime with a ring of lacing on the main in the holy grove of Aphrodite and the first of the her a piece of silver in lap throws with the words " Truly, I call the goddess Mylitta to " divulge ( histories I. 199). Some women - Herodotus - had to wait three or four years until they were able to fulfill this commandment of the goddess, since there was no suitor. This was taken as an example of temple prostitution, but in recent times, several authors have spoken out against such an interpretation.

The name referred to ( with the not infrequent change of b to m) the great Babylonian Goddess Belit - "Lady " ( = epithet of Ishtar, = Baaltis - consort of Baal / Bel ). Urania was, according to Herodotus also worshiped by the Persians ( Histories I., 131), they would have learned this by the Assyrians and Arabs: " call it the Assyrians, the Aphrodite Mylitta, the Arabs Alitta, the Persians Mitra. ". After Huber corresponds to the mentioned in Ctesias Babylonian goddess Aphrodite / Molis, the wife of Zeus / Belus, perhaps the Mylitta. According to Huber Mylitta also known from Babylonian proper names Mulliltu or Mullittu and the Assyrian Mulliššu / Mullissu ( NIN.LÍL ) is equated.