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GOD'S VAGINA....  "Wound of Christ — Psalter and Prayer Book of Bonne de Luxembourg, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Cloisters Collection Reading it caused me remember that many Medieval prayer books included images of Jesus’s side wound as a vagina. Those prayer books were collectively called The Book of Hours — though they often differed one from the other because they were specially commissioned by the wealthy and literate, and because many pre-dated the invention of the printing press. Tens of thousands of these books survive, most of which date from between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries. The Book of Hours contained psalms and prayers be prayed at different times of the day." |
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I have read about this before.....I was fascinated by it as a devout teen, when I went to Catechism classes every Saturday with our pastor, being prepared for Confirmation, which is at 14 for Lutherans. Our pastor had Muscular Dystrophy and was confined to a wheel-chair. I had known him when he was healthy and I was friends with his sons...I loved and admired him very much and his wife was the children's choir director, where I was a soloist. We were all very sad watching him get deteriorate....My father came home in tears after helping to build the wheel chair ramp. Pastor Odland taught me alone in his office. There were bookshelves everywhere, floor to ceiling and I. being a book worm, was dazzled by the plenty. He allowed me to borrow any book I liked and bring it back the next Saturday. I came across a book there, about God's Vagina. I was just discovering my own, now that I had started bleeding and learned why...... There were many illustrations from Medieval prayer books of Jesus's side-wound transformed into a bleeding vagina. There was a Portuguese word for the spirit that hovered over and impregnated Mary that was also the word for Vagina......there were illustrations of a bleeding, giant vagina hovering over Mary as he knelt in prayer. I couldn't make head nor tail of this......because wouldn't it be a male spirit that impregnated Mary?.....My 14 year old self was confused......... Many of the illustrations were of the disciples seeming to be worshipping the wound in Jesus's side, which looked exactly like a bleeding vagina.......There were also references to Communion, which I was very interested in because the whole point of my studies with Pastor Odland was to be prepared to take my first Communion.....to understand what it meant. But, according to this book about the Medieval Christian church, the wine that we drink at Communion came from Christ's Vagina........I forgot all about that confusing book because Pastor Odland was very ill when he gave me my first communion....His assistant had to lift his hand and place it on my head........He died soon after that and our communal grief erased it from my mind until recently......I thought maybe I imagined or misunderstood the book, so I turned to Google and corroborated my memories........ I have come to the conclusion that the reason Christianity is o popular is that it can be endlessly interpreted to fit the situation, the times and the culture.....The Bible is, after all, translated into Zulu and Swahili and Inuit.....God's Vagina
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HOW COME I WAS TOTALLY UNAWARE THAT THE ALMIGHTY HAD ANY SUCH THING?
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HOW COME I WAS TOTALLY UNAWARE THAT THE ALMIGHTY HAD ANY SUCH THING? No vaginas allowed~~ LOLOL 
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Makes me wonder what else is hiding in the early church....
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First time for me too, very interesting indeed.
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There is also Sheela na gigs, figurative carvings of naked women displaying an exaggerated vulva. They are architectural grotesques found throughout most of Europe on cathedrals, castles, and other buildings. The greatest concentrations can be found in Ireland, Great Britain, France and Spain, sometimes together with male figures. Fertility, warning of lust, warding off evil or perhaps the remnants of of an ancient Goddess, I read the Kirsten Lavransdatter series by Sigrid Undset about a woman in Medieval Norway when I was 14 or 15.....I read it in Norwegian then and in English when I was in my 50's........The first time I read them, I thought they were wonderful and I felt I was time-travelling.......The second time I read them, I thought they were very fluffy....a soap-opera, with most of the historical details being about the clothes and life-style, and not enough about how they perceived the world........My attention had shifted to the philosophy and psychology...... Back in the 90's, several of my close friends were in a metal band that played mostly original songs by the lead-guitarist/singer......He was really into the Medieval period and wrote a great song about witches.......I was a Metal-Head at the time.......Still am.....Now my favourites are Norwegian Viking Metal......I love their use of ancient instruments along with modern electronics......... I think we have misinterpreted the "Dark Ages".....
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When I googled "God's Vagina" I found out that it's the name of the strongest Marijuana known to man......there are dozens of pages about it......Apparently it .got it's name when a celebrity was handed a bud and he sniffed it and commented that it smelled like God's vagina........LOL.....
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