Mar 172010
Prohibition Of Emotion
Cold water was sometimes used to numb the flesh (comparable to the later Christian baptizing). The foreskin would be completely cut or burned off, or the underside of the penis would be sliced lengthwise (sub-incision) to bare the resemblance of a vulva, making sacrificial bloodletting a part of the initiation ritual.
In another initiation version, the elders would poke the boys’ nostrils causing sacrificial bloodletting and forcing them to oral sex, adding sexual submission into the mix.
