Book V - Snyder Bible

The Preaching of Simeon Kefa 289
looking on, compelled them to have a Genesis among other
men.
Chapter XXII: Customs of the Gelones
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the fields, build, and do every manly work; and they are
also allowed to have intercourse with whom they please and
are not found fault with by their husbands or called adulteresses:
for they have promiscuous intercourse everywhere,
and especially with strangers. They do not use ointments; they
do not wear dyed garments or shoes. On the other hand, the
men of the Gelones are adorned, combed, clothed in soft and
various-colored garments, decked with gold, and besmeared
with ointments, and that not through lack of manliness, for
they are most warlike, and most keen hunters. Yet the whole
women of the Gelones had not at their birth the unfavorable
Venus in Capricorn or Aquarius; nor had all their men Venus
placed with Mars in Aries, by which configuration the Chaldean
science asserts that men are born effeminate and dissolute.
Chapter XXIII: Manners of the Susidae
of the best sort, being decked with ornaments and precious
stones; also they go abroad supported by the aid of their
maidservants, with much greater ambition than the men. They
do not, however, cultivate modesty, but have intercourse indifferently
with whomsoever they please, with slaves and
guests, such liberty being allowed them by their husbands;
and not only are they not blamed for this, but they also rule
over their husbands. And yet the Genesis of all the Susan
women have not Venus, with Jupiter and Mars in the middle of
the heaven in the houses of Jupiter. In the remoter parts of the
East, if a boy be treated unnaturally, when it is discovered, he
is killed by his brothers, or his parents, or any of his relations,
and is left unburied. And again, among the Gauls, an old law
allows boys to be thus treated publicly; and no disgrace is