Seven-seat MPVs are what they are, a
fertility rite or a punishment for failing to grasp the most basic of Darwin's principles.
BIRMINGHAM Mail reader Tony Levy referred to a Pagan
fertility rite adapted by our current Spirit of Christmas that is inevitably lost in an end-of-year trade bonanza.
Menhirs are believed to be part of a Neolithic
fertility rite, and scholars see them as proof the ancient inhabitants had knowledge of architecture, astronomy, mathematics, and geology.
The rhythmic elements of the music are played out in scenes of a pagan
fertility rite, as age is sacrificed and Mother Earth is worshipped.
But many of the significant pagan aspects of the day were ignored by our strait-laced ancestors and instead of a
fertility rite, dancing around the maypole became a children's game.
Osundare, here beautifully re-enacts a traditional
fertility rite of rainmaking, and in this, he symbolically functions as a shamanic rainmaker, a sort of human thunderstorm whose main concern is the good of the populace.
Belly dancing was originally an ancient
fertility rite. And while Egyptians like to trace it back to the Pharaonic times, the dance actually originated in ancient Babylon in southern Iraq and was brought over to Egypt by gypsies.
Abramovic's ribald, Slavic
fertility rite is notable for being the only segment in which women are presented as more than helpmates.
I'm sure some historian will pop up and point out that morris dancing is actually an ancient
fertility rite.
In it she explores the "inversion of death" implied in the flowery
fertility rite of Ophelia's death, in Desdemona's repeated crossing of the border between life and death at the end of her life, and in Juliet's life-in-death in the tomb.
"The giving of favours is also a
fertility rite in many countries."
Many social historians believe it has much earlier origins, as a
fertility rite to ensure a plentiful herd of young reindeer in the local forest.