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(10,252 posts)It's unworthy to spend any time contemplating.
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)In Aztec mythology, the Cihuateteo or "Divine Women," were the malevolent spirits of women who died in childbirth. They were likened to the spirits of male warriors who died in violent conflict, because childbirth was conceptually equivalent to battle in Aztec culture. According to tradition, a woman in labor was said to capture the spirit of her newborn child similar to the way a warrior captures his opponent in battle. These spirits are also associated with the west, the place where the sun sets each day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cihuateteo
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)I'm still mentally processing the idea that a "vagina museum" actually exists...
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)That there's a penis museum?
The Icelandic Phallological Museum, located in Reykjavík, Iceland, houses the world's largest display of penises and penile parts. The collection of 280 specimens from 93 species of animals includes 55 penises taken from whales, 36 from seals and 118 from land mammals, allegedly including Huldufólk (Icelandic elves) and trolls. In July 2011, the museum obtained its first human penis, one of four promised by would-be donors. Its detachment from the donor's body did not go according to plan and it was reduced to a greyish-brown shriveled mass that was pickled in a jar of formalin. The museum continues to search for "a younger and a bigger and better one."[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_Phallological_Museum
Raster
(20,998 posts)... I know just how they feel.