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I can't help being reminded of fertility rites. I must have been studying to much Slavic folklore lately
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Well Spring is a time of fertility.
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Interesting how everyone takes that for granted, until you do some research and find that the peak of births on the northern hemisphere is in July/August. Which means that most of the fertilization must take place around late November, when everyone's supposed to be sunken deep into winter depression. So that's when the fertility rites should be taking place, or maybe they aren't because they're not needed on those long winter nights
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Perhaps what I meant was Spring is a time of rebirth...which isn't the same as fertility I suppose.
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Ok, but it's also true that fair maidens dancing around a huge pole in spring (Β upload.wikimedia.org/wikipediaβ¦Β ) is somehow associated with fertility rites
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That's an idea that has to have been thought up by men!
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How so? Why wouldn't a woman appreciate a decent pole?
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Women would appreciate it well enough...but men would want a spectacle made of their giant poles.
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I find this an extremely fascinating topic for two reasons. First, Wiccans and other neo pagans tend to spread a view that during pagan times human society was matriarchal, and the Christianity came and brought the "Hebrew god" and ruined it all. It's a view that appears to be rooted more in wishful thought and imagination than in actual historic fact. I once saw a docudrama on NGC about a guy who claimed that Stonehenge marks the end of matriarchy, which was about a kind of distributed moon worship, and introduces a firm patriarchal social hierarchy based on sun worship instead. From that view patriarchy was well settled long before Christianity even existed. To me this seems like a more likely scenario, although there are perhaps also degrees of matriarchy or patriarchy, and Christianity just pushed the balance a bit further in the latter direction. Within Christianity itself there have been battles between both ends of the spectrum.
Secondly, based on how censorship is applied on various web sites, I have noticed that even the slightest hint of a nipple tends to send Americans into a state of catatonic fear and horror. As if seeing one, if only for a brief moment, is going to traumatize your kids for the entire rest of their lives, perhaps even turning them into serial murderers. While at the same time "you people" don't seem to mind a all shooting obvious giant dicks into outer space, for all to see
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