🪷 In November 129 AD #Hadrian and #Antinous arrived in #Hierapolis #Hieropolis (Turkey) city of the Sacred Prostitutes, including gay prostitutes called #hierodules. They served the goddess #Astargis, a Hellenized form of #Astarte / #Venus. Full report: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/11/anti... 🪷
November 3, 2026 at 11:17 AM
🪷 In November 129 AD #Hadrian and #Antinous arrived in #Hierapolis #Hieropolis (Turkey) city of the Sacred Prostitutes, including gay prostitutes called #hierodules. They served the goddess #Astargis, a Hellenized form of #Astarte / #Venus. Full report: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/11/anti... 🪷
The two oldest professions: sex work and communing with the hidden substructure. Hierodules in Mesopotamia, cam girl programmers today. Yes.
October 9, 2026 at 8:37 PM
The two oldest professions: sex work and communing with the hidden substructure. Hierodules in Mesopotamia, cam girl programmers today. Yes.
What up, Pelerines and hierodules? Hasten to this bundle of the nearly complete Tor Books Gene Wolfe library.
(It omits a few chapbooks and oddities and his first novel, which he didn't want reprinted.)
7 collections, 30+ novels, a pinnacle of literature.
www.humblebundle.com/books/ultima...
(It omits a few chapbooks and oddities and his first novel, which he didn't want reprinted.)
7 collections, 30+ novels, a pinnacle of literature.
www.humblebundle.com/books/ultima...
Humble Book Bundle: The Ultimate Gene Wolfe Library by Tor Books
Get a massive library of the best of sci-fi and fantasy master Gene Wolfe! Choose what you pay, and support Alzheimer’s Research UK with your purchase!
www.humblebundle.com
October 1, 2026 at 8:23 PM
What up, Pelerines and hierodules? Hasten to this bundle of the nearly complete Tor Books Gene Wolfe library.
(It omits a few chapbooks and oddities and his first novel, which he didn't want reprinted.)
7 collections, 30+ novels, a pinnacle of literature.
www.humblebundle.com/books/ultima...
(It omits a few chapbooks and oddities and his first novel, which he didn't want reprinted.)
7 collections, 30+ novels, a pinnacle of literature.
www.humblebundle.com/books/ultima...
Also dimachaeron and barbed and scythed hierodules should be brought back into production
September 22, 2026 at 6:08 PM
Also dimachaeron and barbed and scythed hierodules should be brought back into production
I maintain that Rob Saka is like the Hierodules in Book of the New Sun-experiencing time in reverse. He knows things about that curb that haven’t happened yet, and his bills must be amended before they are introduced. 
"This is a first for me, I've never seen an amendment deadline for a piece of legislation that has not formally been introduced yet, how is that possible?" -CM Alexis Mercedes Rinck
September 9, 2026 at 1:19 AM
I maintain that Rob Saka is like the Hierodules in Book of the New Sun-experiencing time in reverse. He knows things about that curb that haven’t happened yet, and his bills must be amended before they are introduced. 
…As I interpret the Play & Cyriaca’s story, at the last moment they were saved by the weapons & logistics of the Hierodules. It survives as a military dictatorship (as South Korea was until 1980) sharing an unpeaceful border to the north.
November 5, 2025 at 2:35 AM
…As I interpret the Play & Cyriaca’s story, at the last moment they were saved by the weapons & logistics of the Hierodules. It survives as a military dictatorship (as South Korea was until 1980) sharing an unpeaceful border to the north.
Probably steered by three hierodules.
Y’ALL. This is a solar eclipse, but it’s not the moon blocking the sun. It’s a spacecraft, perfectly blocking the sun from the perspective of another spacecraft 🤯!!!
(1/2) 🧪🔭
📸: ESA, Proba-3, ASPIICS
(1/2) 🧪🔭
📸: ESA, Proba-3, ASPIICS
June 17, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Probably steered by three hierodules.
4/ ...includes very important clarifications on the plot of the book. 3) It does not include certain details that Wolfe made explicit in his 1983 Thrust interview regarding Sev's psychological motivations & the those of the Powers' interests in Severian (the undine, Abaia, and the Hierodules).
June 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
4/ ...includes very important clarifications on the plot of the book. 3) It does not include certain details that Wolfe made explicit in his 1983 Thrust interview regarding Sev's psychological motivations & the those of the Powers' interests in Severian (the undine, Abaia, and the Hierodules).
And his three captors the three hierodules, of course.
January 9, 2026 at 4:48 PM
And his three captors the three hierodules, of course.
If the aliens are called "aliens" it's sci-fi, if the aliens are called "hierodules" you know exactly what you're reading.
"Am I reading fantasy or sci-fi?"
If the names have too many vowels, it's fantasy. If the names have too many consonants, it's sci-fi
If the names have too many vowels, it's fantasy. If the names have too many consonants, it's sci-fi
August 20, 2025 at 11:21 PM
If the aliens are called "aliens" it's sci-fi, if the aliens are called "hierodules" you know exactly what you're reading.
Feels like something here is important but idk what it is yet, resonates with my half-remembered vibes about the lost archives, Neoplatonism/gnosticism, hierarchies of government loyalty, and whatnot #bskybc
December 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Feels like something here is important but idk what it is yet, resonates with my half-remembered vibes about the lost archives, Neoplatonism/gnosticism, hierarchies of government loyalty, and whatnot #bskybc
the conciliator has brought the white fountain from yesod to burn away the black cestode in the heart of the old sun. the land that we call urth will soon be known as ushas. remain calm: hierodules are in control
BREAKING | An object may have just come to us from another solar system, scientists say
An object may have just come to us from another solar system, scientists say
An object might have come to us from outside of our solar system, scientists said.
www.independent.co.uk
July 3, 2025 at 8:38 PM
the conciliator has brought the white fountain from yesod to burn away the black cestode in the heart of the old sun. the land that we call urth will soon be known as ushas. remain calm: hierodules are in control
The Hierodules, travelling backward through time on a journey to plant the conditions that bring about their universe create me, one of endless Erins stretching forward and back through history, as another failed attempt at creating their messiah. then they sent me to space and cut my dick off.
November 22, 2025 at 10:12 PM
The Hierodules, travelling backward through time on a journey to plant the conditions that bring about their universe create me, one of endless Erins stretching forward and back through history, as another failed attempt at creating their messiah. then they sent me to space and cut my dick off.
You are going to love finding out about the Hierodules.
January 19, 2025 at 12:37 PM
You are going to love finding out about the Hierodules.
My face when I realize that both the Hierodules and Severian wear human face masks to hide their true form ... Yeah, I'm still thinking about Book of the New Sun
Dwight Schrute's Dummy Face Mask
ALT: Dwight Schrute's Dummy Face Mask
static.klipy.com
July 20, 2026 at 6:31 PM
My face when I realize that both the Hierodules and Severian wear human face masks to hide their true form ... Yeah, I'm still thinking about Book of the New Sun
Don't worry. You'll be fine. Hierodules and Exultants, oh my!
January 6, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Don't worry. You'll be fine. Hierodules and Exultants, oh my!
Yesss. I'd also very much go for plastic Hierodules.
August 24, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Yesss. I'd also very much go for plastic Hierodules.
within the hierogrammates' dying-sun-test of urth, the undines were placed to challenge the autarchy, and the hierodules to provide limited guidance. inire and the cumaean are aliens explicitly aligned by choice with the autarchy, and famulimus may have placed herself there by overstepping her role.
May 25, 2026 at 6:32 PM
within the hierogrammates' dying-sun-test of urth, the undines were placed to challenge the autarchy, and the hierodules to provide limited guidance. inire and the cumaean are aliens explicitly aligned by choice with the autarchy, and famulimus may have placed herself there by overstepping her role.
did GW pick all the old timey tyranid names from these books? we got zoanthropes, a lictor, a carnifex, hierodules.
March 5, 2026 at 3:56 AM
did GW pick all the old timey tyranid names from these books? we got zoanthropes, a lictor, a carnifex, hierodules.
Meaning of #hieródulo From the Greek hierós, sacred, consecrated to the gods or under their protection and doulos, slave. Slave in the service of the temple of some god or goddess. Many hierodules exercised sacred prostitution. Eugea was in the service of Aphro.. hieródulo
December 4, 2024 at 4:36 PM
Meaning of #hieródulo From the Greek hierós, sacred, consecrated to the gods or under their protection and doulos, slave. Slave in the service of the temple of some god or goddess. Many hierodules exercised sacred prostitution. Eugea was in the service of Aphro.. hieródulo
the bit about Garry: "mastering by Garry Brents (too many projects to name)" is hilarious. but also truer words, etc
September 30, 2025 at 10:35 AM
the bit about Garry: "mastering by Garry Brents (too many projects to name)" is hilarious. but also truer words, etc
Hierodules and Harridans are also words that are not very kind ways of referring to women.
December 21, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Hierodules and Harridans are also words that are not very kind ways of referring to women.