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Monk, what I was aiming for wasn't a potted history of how defecation relates to various magical traditions, but rather an opening up of a potentially very interesting topic for discussion which I believe might warrant a thread of its own.
However, given your misgivings, I might mention that not only is defecation universal, but it is also related to, among other things, fertility (think manure etc), death, waste, and taboo, and - as those of you of a Kabbalistic bent will be aware - the Sephira Malkuth. I might also point to, say, the use of faeces as face and body paint in Yolngu coming of age rituals, in which adolescent males are daubed with human excrement (said by Claude Levi-Strauss to represent 'rawness' and 'temporary death'), and secluded from the rest of the community until their 'rebirth', or to the experiments of various alchemists with faeces in their search for the 'philosopher's stone' (we see an experiment of this sort take place in Alejandro Jodorowsky's film 'Holy Mountain').
Mordant, I see that the thread has already been locked, as per your move. Your dislike of me is well documented, but I hope that the above makes it clear to other, less partial, members of the board that my intentions here are benign. While I realise that there are other substance-specific threads dealing with body fluids on Barbelith, such as the Bleeding Women thread on magic and menstruation, I cannot see why you would reasonably welcome that thread to the board, and not my one, especially in light of the information I have added above. It is my hope that in light of this, you will move to unlock the Magic and Faeces thread. |
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