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Mintaka
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Re: blasphemy, it’s much more likely that people would assume that Mary had been tricked by a human, or that some kind of demon was playing tricks on her. Neither of these scenarios would involve getting condemned for blasphemy. Heck, being possessed by demons and saying blasphemous stuff didn’t mean you got condemned for blasphemy; it just meant that people worried about the demons.
Re: Aristotelian theories of conception, the “two fluids” theory was actually the state of the art science theory. Nobody believed that one fluid could do it, and especially not women’s weak, cold fluid. In fact, the science conundrum was “Why can’t men have children without women, when men have all this super-powerful seed?” (The high tech idea from Greek philosophers was that women were actually men who had been damaged or malnourished in the womb.)
And most people who were “ignorant of philosophy” believed that man was the sower of seeds, and that woman was the fertile field. Nobody knew about sperm and egg.
Re: Aristotelian theories of conception, the “two fluids” theory was actually the state of the art science theory. Nobody believed that one fluid could do it, and especially not women’s weak, cold fluid. In fact, the science conundrum was “Why can’t men have children without women, when men have all this super-powerful seed?” (The high tech idea from Greek philosophers was that women were actually men who had been damaged or malnourished in the womb.)
And most people who were “ignorant of philosophy” believed that man was the sower of seeds, and that woman was the fertile field. Nobody knew about sperm and egg.
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