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It suppost to be like a sacrifice or something, ancient ceremony of some sort.

2006-12-01 07:49:15 · 2 answers · asked by Lars 2 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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They're symbolic ceremonies that sometimes involve sacrifice, but frequently don't. They can be for female fertility (children) or agrarian fertility (good harvests). Here are a few from around the world:

In Egypt, the pharaoh would get the first stalk of grain - symbol of his as life-giver.

In India it was once believed that a fertile marriage would result if virgins were first deflowered by means of the lingam, a stone phallus symbolizing the god Shiva.

In Japan, a woman wishing to conceive would carry with her a wooden phallus borrowed from the Tagata shrine.

In Britain, dancing around the May pole (decorated phallic symbol) is a fertility ritual dating from before the Romans.

In Persia, people would color eggs (a sign of rebirth) in the Spring in hopes of a bountiful harvest that year.

2006-12-01 09:29:23 · answer #1 · answered by Caritas 6 · 0 0

There is one that still goes on in England. It's the Cerne fertility giant, a chalk carving of a very well endowed man in South West England. A woman who wants to get pregnant sits on his "friend in the south" whilst not wearing any knickers.

2006-12-01 07:52:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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