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A bit of left-handed history, of cursed geniuses ... 2

26/04/2018

II HOW WAS THE LEFT BEING TRANSFORMED FROM A SYMPTOM OF MENTAL AND MORAL DEFICIENCY TO A SIGN OF CREATIVITY AND MENTAL STRENGTH?
Social beliefs
The left in the beliefs
The left was not always associated exclusively with evil; its characterization as "good" or "bad" changed to correspond with the dominant social customs. The ancient Celts, for example, associated the left with femininity, the source of all life, and therefore worshiped the left side, treating it as sacred.
The Greeks presented men and women as opposite couples, with men representing the right and women representing the left. The myths of the creation of time dictated that males were conceived when the "seed" of the father came from the right testicle, and that a girl would be born if the seed came from the left.
This thought was translated into action and, as writes author Melissa Roth, for centuries "the future parents went so far as to tie a testicle in an attempt to choose the sex of their offspring."
In the nineteenth century, for example, the French sociologist Robert Hertz noted that, in their travels to southern Africa, the Zulu tribes poured boiling water into a hole and then placed the left hand of a child in it, scaling the hand and avoiding its use.

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