European sexual religious ritual Great Rite sex magic hiero gamos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieros_gamos https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1334402 A sacred marriage that plays out between a god and a goddess, especially when enacted in a symbolic ritual where human participants represent the deities. The notion of hieros gamos does not always presuppose literal sexual intercourse in ritual, but is also used in purely symbolic or mythological context, notably in alchemy and hence in Jungian psychology. hierogamy