VENETIA
Chapter Three Part II - Initiation Rites
Sophia held the highest seat. She was high priestess to Isis. Throughout the entire ceremony Isis would remain transfixed and silently nodding approval or making other gestures suitable of her position. Sophia would essentially conduct all the ceremony. She would speak for Isis, and occasionally would seek a sign from Isis. She aimed to impress to the off-worlders that this ceremony was very sacred.
As tribute to her, each planet under her dominion would be required to sacrifice virgin young men, every month, or at any other time that Isis would see fit. She seemed to have a remarkable affinity for demanding sacrifices from the worlds under her dominion. Each planet would come up with it's own sales pitch to get young men to strive to be selected to spend an evening in the Pleasure Dome with the Venetian's playing affectionate hostesses. The beauty of the Venetian was legendary throughout the empire. Isis would always ensure that a hardy male who was in the midst of his pleasure would advertise the ecstasy for the cameras.
Author's Notes:
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Im this story, the Venetian Empire is a little insincere concerning what is promised to each of the (7 X 12 = 84) initiates. They do not know that they will each perish as the cost for having sexual relations with these extremely beautiful alien women.
Such an imperial policy, however, is required for perpetuation of this particular species dominated by females. Think of the honeybees.
Yes, drone bees (male honeybees) generally die shortly after mating because the endophallus (the part of the drone that enters the queen) ruptures during mating and breaks off, leaving the drone unable to survive
When writing this chapter, I may have used the wrong number of virgins.
(Personally, I do not subscribe to the faith of Islam.)
Reference to "72 virgins"
The Sunni hadith scholar Al-Tirmidhi quotes Muhammad as having said:
The smallest reward for the people of Heaven is an abode where there are eighty thousand servants and seventy-two houri, over which stands a dome decorated with pearls, aquamarine, and ruby, as wide as the distance from al-Jabiyyah to San'a.
It amazes me concerning the false propaganda that has been used in human history to motivate men to sacrifice themselves to die for their leaders. The promise of a great reward in heaven to commit acts of terror always come to mind.