A Greek term referring to a “marriage” (or more especially, the wedding night and intercourse) between a human and a deity. This could be enacted with a person taking the role of a deity or entirely symbolically. See Great Rite.
Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Pamela Chen and Samantha Blossom, authors of the new The Mandarin Tree.
As modern Asian American mystics, we love to work with the heavenly creatures, or what you may know as mystical beings in...