Can any one explain to me what is unholy and sacreligious about a female's menses?

Question

If this stuff has magic powers, please tell me. I have just been chucking it in the wastebin all this time.

Answer 1

Nothing, it just freaked out a bunch of bronze age men.

Answer 2

Not so much unholy, but in the Jewish faith, the term is unclean. In the laws, contact with anything from a pretty big list would make you unclean and bar you from entering the Temple or other holy places. Spilled blood, (menses or injury) Lizards, certain species of animals, corpses, and on and on would sully you and you would need a ritual bath to repurify your body.

For some it is a marker put on women by God after the Garden of Eden incident. Sort of a 'mark of Cain' thing.

Science has explained the biology, but tradition will go on.

Answer 3

In my culture, the mensis is no unholy nor sacreligious, but powerful and sacred. But the reason the women were kept away from the village during this time was not to shun them, but to protect the sacred items in the village whose vibrations were in conflict with that of the woman's body that was preparing for the possibility of new life. Not because the menstruation was unholy, but because the vibrations of the sacred articles could hurt her. She could hemmorage and bleed to death because the vibrations were not in harmony. Not being in harmony had nothing to do with being evil or bad, nor sacreligious, and I think this fear of these energies blending has grown into a disrespect for the sacredness of women in other cultures (I think). I hope this helps you understand from one Native American's understanding.

Answer 4

lol Nothing. If women didn't have periods, we wouldn't have babies. A period is needed to nourish the unborn until they're developed enough to be born into the world.

Religion claims such weird things.

We must remember that, in the past, goddess worship was the forfront of religion. Until Christitanity came around. Personally, I think its male jealousy. They wanted to eliminate the female influence because women had too much power and men were considered somewhat lesser.

And they succeeded. To well.

Answer 5

I don't think that "unholy and sacreligious" were the words used. I think that the word was "unclean". At the time when they wrote the bible, they believed that when a woman menstruated, she was "unclean". Back then, without pads and tampons and the depo shot and seasonale, I can see where that thought came from. Reasonable to them, at that time.

Answer 6

Since religions were made up by ancient MEN, they decided that since they didn't know anything about a natural biological occurrence that they would declare it unclean and keep a woman subservient in that way. Particularly the Jewish religion where they make the woman go through purification rituals and a bunch of other hogwash.

Answer 7

Not sure what you're referring to in asking this question. If you're concerned about the laws in the Bible regarding the menstruation of women...well, I would have you know that the Israelite women couldn't go to their nearest Walgreens and buy some sanitary napkins. So, directions on how to handle such matters were properly given by God. The same directions were given in matters of bodily functions as well...since they didn't have the nice toiletries we take for granted everyday.

Answer 8

Nothing - it was considered unholy because men in the dark ages "forgot" ( the knowlege was repressed til it was lost) that it was a normal cycle for women - they began to preach that it was a representation of Eve's original sin - just one more brick in the wall for male superiority back then.

Answer 9

To answer your additional details - no there's nothing magical in the blood itself. But the whole menstruation thing is a huge part of a woman's ability to develop a whole new life inside her. If you ask me, there is something pretty magical or miraculous about that.

Answer 10

There is nothing that is sacreligious nor unholy. The original law concerning it was that it was unclean as was eating shell fish. It was a way of protecting people because blood carries pathogens. Shell fish are notorious parasitic carriers.

Answer 11

It's not menses but having sex during menses that is/was considered unclean.

It doesn't necessarily have powers but some women are super horny and aggressive in bed whilst during their cycle.