Origin of menstruation – Eve and the serpent. It is a punishment because Eve had intercourse with the serpent

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Origin of menstruation – Eve and the serpent. It is a punishment because Eve had intercourse with the serpent.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Ordering of human life. · Origin of sex functions. · view the constellation · filed as A1355.1

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

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Origin of menstruation – punishment because Eve ate forbidden fruit

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Origin of menstruation – Virgin Mary's garment. She hides her garment and a maiden finds it Previously men menstruated

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