incestuous union
1Incest in popular culture — Incest is a somewhat popular topic in English erotic fiction; there are entire collections and websites devoted solely to this genre, with an entire genre of pornographic pulp fiction known as incest novels . This is probably because, as with… …
2Marriage in Israel — Marriages in Israel can only be performed under the auspices of the religious community to which couples belong. Matrimonial law is based on the Millet or confessional community system employed in the Ottoman Empire, which was not modified during …
3Muth v. Frank — Muth v. Frank, 412 F.3d 808 (7th Cir. 2005),[1] was a case in which the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that the U.S. Supreme Court s decision in Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003), striking down anti homosexual… …
4SEXUAL OFFENSES — Although the technical term for sexual offenses in general is gillui arayot (lit. the uncovering of nakedness ), the term is usually (though not always: cf. Ex. 20:23; Isa. 47:3, et al.) employed to denote carnal knowledge (Lev. 18:6–19). In the… …
5Incest in folklore — is found in many cultures.In Greek mythology, Zeus and Hera were brother and sister as well as husband and wife. They were the children of Cronus and Rhea (also married siblings). Cronus and Rhea, in turn, were children of Uranus and Gaia (a son… …
6Antigone — /an tig euh nee /, n. 1. Class. Myth. a daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta who defied her uncle, King Creon, by performing funeral rites over her brother, Polynices, and was condemned to be immured alive in a cave. 2. (italics) a tragedy (c440 B.C.) …
7Sir Degaré — (ca. 1300–1325) Sir Degaré is a MIDDLE ENGLISH verse ROMANCE of about 1,100 lines, written in a southwest Midland dialect in the early 14th century. The poem, composed in couplets, survives in six manuscripts and in three early printings,… …
8Julia the Elder — Julio Claudian dynasty caption= Bust of Julia the ElderJulia the Elder (October 39 BC 14), known to her contemporaries as Julia Caesaris filia or Julia Augusti filia (Classical Latin: IVLIA•CAESARIS•FILIA or IVLIA•AVGVSTI•FILIA [Aut|E. Groag, A.… …
9Time Enough for Love — infobox Book | name = Time Enough for Love title orig = translator = image caption = Time Enough For Love (first edition cover 1973) author = Robert A. Heinlein illustrator = cover artist = country = United States language = English series =… …
10War of the Five Kings — The War of the Five Kings is a fictional war that takes place in American fantasy author George R. R. Martin s A Song of Ice and Fire series of novels. The war begins during the events of the first novel, A Game of Thrones and remains ongoing at… …
