Separated at birth? (WasFeminism on the P-list (wa Re: childbirth etc.))

tejas tbsamsel at richmond.infi.net
Thu Sep 25 22:00:17 CDT 1997


Peter Giordano wrote:

> Doesn't this sound like "I'm gonna rip your face off," an idea invented
> somewhere in the Caribbean?  Just how many people are out there anyway?

The Mexica/Aztec priests in the worship of Xipe Totec (a fertility 
god) would flay a sacrificial victim and done the skin themselves 
and wear it until it fell off. Back when religion meant "something". 

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TBSamsel at richmond.infi.net (also tejas at infi.net)
        “Do the boogie woogie in the South American way”
                                   Hank Snow  THE RHUMBA BOOGIE



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