From: Sandy Petersen (sandyp@idgecko.idsoftware.com)
Date: Mon 02 Sep 1996 - 21:01:39 EEST
>as someone who has given birth to a child, I have to wonder
>something:
But I've been present at the birth of all five of my own, and
held them before my wife got to. Also had a better(?) view of the
birth itself. Hardly ever fainted. A couple of times I had to get
real interested in the wall.
>How would you explain in mythic terms the fluid loss in delivery
>of a baby, and the 3 weeks of blood loss afterward in what is
>essentially 9 months worth of menstruation?
I don't think that the three explanations I gave for
Menstruation think of the placenta and subsequent bleeding loss as 9
months of menstruation, but someone might. The fluid loss in delivery
is explained in lots of ways:
MALKIONI
1) Humans must re-live all the ages of the world. The first is
Darkness, where we're held deep in the womb. The second is Water,
when a small sea appears around us and we float within the mother.
Then there is Earth, the birth itself, in which we are forced down
the gripping tunnel of strength and love. Fourth comes the Sun -- we
emerge from the womb and see the light, even through our closed
eyelids. Lastly is Storm, as we clear our throat and emit a lusty
bellow full of air, or at least whimper.
And so of course, a person who is deprived of one of these
stages becomes spiritually deformed. The most common example is that
of a person deprived of Earth (i.e., Caesarian birth). (and here our
author proceeds onward with all kinds of complicated proofs that
Caesarians, or those born blind, etc. are somehow unnatural).
Sandy P.
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