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  1. Eunuchs

    A eunuch ( YOO-nək) is a male who has been castrated. Throughout history, castration often served a specific social function.The earliest records for intentional castration to produce eunuchs are from the Sumerian city of Lagash in the 2nd millennium BCE. Over the millennia since, they have performed a wide variety of functions in many different cultures: courtiers or equivalent domestics, for espionage or clandestine operations, castrato singers, concubines, or sexual partners, religious specialists, soldiers, royal guards, government officials, and guardians of women or harem servants. Eunuchs would usually be servants or slaves who had been castrated to make them less threatening servants of a royal court where physical access to the ruler could wield great influence. Seemingly lowly domestic functions—such as making the ruler's bed, bathing him, cutting his hair, carrying him in his litter, or even relaying messages—could, in theory, give a eunuch "the ruler's ear" and impart de facto power on the formally humble but trusted servant. Similar instances are reflected in the humble origins and etymology of many high offices. Eunuchs supposedly did not generally have loyalties to the military, the aristocracy, or a family of their own (having neither offspring nor in-laws, at the very least). They were thus seen as more trustworthy and less interested in establishing a private "dynasty". Because their condition usually lowered their social status, they could also be easily replaced or killed without repercussion. In cultures that had both harems and eunuchs, eunuchs were sometimes used as harem servants.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of eunuchs in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of eunuchs in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

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  1. John Chigiti:

    Some will call them eunuchs, some will call them bisexual, some will call them transsexual, the general view of the public is a cocktail ... of confusion and fear.

  2. Brendan Francis Behan:

    Critics are like eunuchs in a harem they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.

  3. Scott C. Holstad:

    Ashes keep drifting onto my paper, charcoal snowflakes on a minefield of blanks, words bouncing around off each other uttering impotent images of sight sound terror life crying for recognition, narcissistic eunuchs reflecting my face, ruining the snowfield.

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