Qadištu

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Qadištu

The Qadištu is a group and Race in Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance.

List of Members

• Lilith (Leader)
• Eisheth Zenunim
• Agrat bat Mahlat
• Naamah

Nomenclature

Qadištu is the Akkadian form of a feminine noun derived from a Semitic root meaning "holy" or "set apart". Specifically, it comes from the triconsonantal root q-d-š.

Qadištu, along with its Hebrew cognate which occurs in the Bible, has since the mid-19th century been interpreted as meaning "sacred prostitute", i.e. a priestess who perform sex acts as a cultic function, though that interpretation has been challenged in current scholarship.

In Akkadian the word qadištu is used exclusively for female cultic functionaries with a diverse set of roles, primarily cultic practices but also wet-nursing and midwifery; it has no sexual connotations. However, in Hebrew, the term came to be used for either a priestess or a prostitute (but never both at the same time), and, according to Jessie DeGrado, had even been generalized to refer to any single unmarried woman who was employed outside of the household.

Names in Other Languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	カディシュトゥ KadishutuAs a group 女魔 NyomaAs a race	Qadištu Female demon

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