Book XIII: The Book of Marriage

Book XIII: The Book of Marriage is a book in the Big Book of Athenian Fables which is regarded as the foremost important source of legal review on the status of family, sex, and marriage in the Athenian Faith.

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Marriage is an eternal promise made between two persons. A vow may never be broken, if ever a question of separation be thought of, it must go through a Temple where a priest will direct couples counseling, if it can not be attained it shall become a dispute in a religious court located at a High Temple.

Marriage may take place between a man and a woman or a woman and a woman, a man and another man. Love is love and there should be no problem between said parties. Matrimony is important and complex.

A man may not marry many wives, only a woman can marry as many men as she chooses. One husband shall be taken over all others as the producer of her offspring, the other men shall offer protection and financial assistance should it be necessary. A woman may choose one of her other husbands to serve at her pleasure on any given night.

A woman is in charge of the household no man may ever seek it to himself to run his own household. Upon the death of his wife, he must move in with another close member of his family preferably the eldest child's home. Should a young man loose his wife, he must seek help from the Temple and he will be directed to remarry. Should another woman seek to have him as her Husband by order and permission of the Temple must he obey his new spouses law and join her household.

A woman can sleep with as many men as she wants, this is the law. No man may sleep with as many women as he wants. Men are allowed to sleep with other men if he so chooses and may sleep with as many men as he chooses.

A woman is to be mother, child bearer and raise said child as a joint effort between herself and her husband. The children shall remain in the family until it is time to marry off the children. Daughters are expected to be obedient and remain in the house of their mothers once married expanding the family. A daughter may never take the husband of the mother or sleep with any of her mothers consorts. A daughter shall respect her mothers advice and arrangements in all aspects of life.

When time comes for sexual maturity, it must be kept that both men and women abstain from sexual relations until marriage. Doing so will promote dissent within the temple and life in general. You must never have premarital sex. Premarital Sex is a immoral sin, sex must be consummated upon marriage as it symbolises the body and spirit of religious and moral obligations given upon us by the Gods to create and flourish. Being of Virgin spirit embodies the Mother Goddess Pallas Athena who was Virgin when she created St. Bishop and life.

However sex is natural and must be commenced the first night fall of the marriage. Not commencing this natural process is an immoral sin and thus will conflict that the marriage is not a true marriage. Whence forth committing adultery with another who is not your spouse on the night of your wedding shall have you committed 10000 eons in the abyss of lifeless in the Underworld.

Thus in essence the beauty of Chasity shall be valued above all else shall be valued in a relationship and future marriage. There is also no shame in a spouse who has previously been married or had a sexual relation with another person. It is to be of respect between spouses who have either separated or passed away to continue to respect one another upon the laws of marriage which are so guided upon this holy of holy matrimonies.