https://libcom.org/article/chris-knights-theory-human-origins-abridged-account
Women turning into animals while bleeding means women are both the animal you are hunting and the animal hunted - while bleeding.
"she has shot a zebra..." predator and prey at the same time.... by the female coalitions turning into big scary supernatural animals they established the incest taboo... and human culture...this was tied to menstruation synchronization with the lunar cycle....
Across Amazonia, myths hold that in early times it was the jaguars, parrots, tapirs and other animals who first invented bows and arrows, cooking fire, ceremonial buildings, religious ceremonies and other complex cultural accomplishments. Then humans stole these things from the animals, elevating themselves above all other creatures – but at the cost of losing their former ability to engage in easy conversation with the animal world. This mythic view of our origins is the reverse of the Darwinian narrative which our own culture holds up as science. In this talk, Chris Knight will introduce a recent trend in social anthropology – known as ‘perspectivism’ – and discuss whether such radically different ways of perceiving our origins and place in nature can be made to converge.
They signalled No with the blood of menstruation; and the equation ‘Blood = No’ simultaneously extended the taboo to the blood of game animals. Hunters must not eat their own kill. It must be returned to camp, handed to the collectivity of women, and cooked to remove all blood before being communally eaten. At one blow the women’s strike action prompted the collective organisation of men for the benefit of all; outlawed generalised or individual male dominance; and, in seeming paradox, separated sex from foodgetting. Individual sex-for-food bargaining was banned. Women’s bodies were sacred — to themselves and others. The food given by men to their sexual partners was then shared among the women’s blood kin....
We went on strike, not once, but every month. Our clock was the moon. The rhythm of our blood flow sent the men to hunt and us to our inner world where we could centre ourselves and be close, both sexually and spiritually. The men’s rhythm, and their intragender closeness, mirrored ours.
http://www.chrisknight.co.uk/liz-dalton/
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