[Aztlan] MA: One More

[D. M. Urquidi]

Folks:

Here is some old info

Orellano, Sandra L. p. 75 Boys were circumcised before
producing seed.
Bibliography: S. W. Mile, 1957, XVI century Pokome
Maya: A documentary Analysis in Tranactions of the
American Philosophical Society, 47:731:81,
Philadelphia, p. 764.
Also page 162: priests discouraged circumcision.
(Schendel, 1968: 687 Medicine in Mexico, UT Press,
Austin)also 
a jade phallus found near Chichicastenango.
Circumcision by Quiches in pre- Hispanic times
Bibliography: Villacorte, Cifuentes, 1976, p. 107-108

Assuming the "mamaluccos" of Tlaxcala may have been
Turks, I would say that it was Muselmen, not the Ten
Lost Tribes.

Dea
 
> The most interesting thing about this bowl (to me)
> is that the  
> depicted phallus has obviously been circumcised.
> Putting aside all  
> notions regarding "lost tribes of Israel" and the
> like, did Maya  
> males customarily engage in this practice that we
> know of?


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