Index

• Abdullah A1 Mamun, 246
• Abortions, plants used for, 112
• Abraham, 255, 257
• Abyss, 9, 16, 19, 43, 255
• Adam, 93-94, 106, 202
• Adamuzi, 106, 202
• Adonis, 213
• Adornment, 73, 95, 183
• Africa, 251; birds in, 182, 183-184; circumcision in, 46; cloth making in, 234; grains in, 116; headwear in, 92; jackal in, 55; lip plugs in, 79; menstrual huts in, 243; molding of breasts in, 82; moon worship in, 26; protohumans in, 53; red ants in, 56; scarring in, 80; triangular and circular forms in, 168. See also Egypt, ancient; Dogon people; Great Pyramid
• Agriculture. See Farming
• Ahkenaton, 255
• AIDS, 268, 277
• A-Kamba, 36
• Alcheringa, 76
• Alcohol, 113-115, 241
• Alewife, 113, 114, 218, 223, 242
• Algebra, 164-165
• Alphabet, 210, 225
• American Indians. See Native Americans
• Amulets, healing, 129-130
• An, 26, 219
• Animism, 128
• Ankh symbol, 90
• An/Ki, 26
• Anubis, 55
• Aphrodite, 199, 213, 233
• Apollo, 27
• Apples, 105-106, 112
• Apsu, 9, 16, 211, 252
• Arapahoe, 67
• Ark, 218, 219-220; and covenant of Yahweh, 211-225
• Arnhem Land, 32, 34
• Artisans, 229
• Aruru, 229
• Asherah, 66, 180
• Athena, 273
• Atsugewi, 47-48
• Augustine, Saint, 266-267
• Australia, 8, 167, 237; blood signals in, 75, 76; parallel menstrual taboos of males in, 47; snake in mythology of, 58, 59; subcision in, 46; and male ritual thievery, 250. See also Wawilak Sisters
• Aztecs, 62
• Babylonian creation stories, 8-9, 16, 65
• Balabhadra, 205
• Balder, 213
• Ball games, Mayan, 194-197
• Bambara people, 54, 116
• Bananas, 108
• Bao Lord, Betty, Spring Moon: A Novel  of China, 148
• Barasana people, 199-200
• Bar Maid, 218-219
• Beckwith, Martha, 251
• Beer, 113-114, 215-216, 242
• Belladonna, 88
• Birds, impersonating, and other emissaries of light, 181-184
• Blessingway, 122, 129
• Blood: male vs. female, 49; sacrifice, herding and, 135-137; signals and paint, 75-78; women's, and wild dogs, 52-55
• Bloodletting, 44, 48, 127-128, 129
• Boat of Heaven, 219, 220, 229; covenant and, 214-218
• Body: cooking by altering states of mind and, 111-115; scratching, 38, 39; touching, 37-38; whipping, 38-39
• Body language, seclusion rites and, 72-75
• Body shape, fashioning of, 81-83
• Book of the Dead, 170
• Bouwa, 32
• Brahmin kammalars, 229
• Bran, King, 177
• Brandenburger, Kris, 280
• Bread, 117-118; barley, 114, 117; and beer, 113, 114; shaped like moon, 120-122
• "Bread and roses," 275-276; and "blood," 276
• Breasts: molding of, 82; nursing animals from human, 136
• Brewster. See Alewife
• Bribri Indians, 98
• Bridal dress, 147-149
• Briffault, Robert, 4, 102; The Mothers, 3
• British Columbia, 87, 91-92, 93
• British Medical Journal, 103
• Buffalo, 133, 136-137
• Bukaua tribe, 89-90, 99
• Cakes, 121-122, 162; wedding, 122, 146
• Calendar, menstruant, 155-157
• Campbell, Joseph, 136 C
• ar (goddess), 206 Caraja tribe, 46
• Car Festival, 205-206, 207
• Carnelian, 238
• Carrots, as menstrual blood, 110-111
• Carrot seed, 110, 111, 112
• Carrot Sunday, 110-111
• Castration, 65
• Cats, menstrual mythology and, 54
• Cat's cradle, 166-168, 169, 209, 240
• Celibacy, 257
• Celtic warriors, 269-270
• Cerebus, 55
• Ceremony, defined, 103
• Ceres, cornucopia of, 85
• Cerridwen, 206
• Chair, 22; and cathedral, 178; as origin of car, 206; origin of, 99; as throne and litter, 176-178
• Chaos, 14, 16, 20, 24, 33, 74; and consciousness, 9-11; and death rites, 125-126; Greek meaning of word, 7
• Cheyenne, 77
• Childbirth, 77, 91, 123-124, 132
• China: blood signals in, 77; dragon in, 64; jade in, 238; New Year in, 203; sacred number nine in, 164; shamans in, 128
• Chin tattoo, 76, 158-159, 160
• Cholera, 260-261
• Circle, 120, 161-163, 166, 169
• Circumcision, 46, 47
• Clitoris, excision of, 46
• Cloth, value of, 234, 235
• Coatlicue, 63
• Cokwe people, 60
• Columbus, Christopher, 264
• Combs, as vulvas, 87
• Compass, menstruant as, 160-161
• Compassion, sacrifice and, 193-194, 197-198
• Consciousness, 18; chaos and, 9-11
• Cooking: by altering states of mind and body, 111-115; by combining metaforms, 120-122; by gathering and growing metaforms, 107-111; by purifying meats, 118-120; taboos about menstruation and, 102-107, 119, 120, 129; by washing grains, 115-118
• Copernicus, Nicolaus, 267
• Copper, 237, 252
• Cosmeticians, 73
• Cosmetic metaform, 22-23, 68, 72-73
• Cosmetics, use of, 75-78
• Cosmetikos, 80, 82, 90, 139, 159; and birds, 181, 183, 184; and blood signals and paint, 75, 149; and chairs, 99; and coins, 236; and Descent myths, 211; food, 109, 110; and goddess as collective menstruant, 179, 180-181; and goddess figures, 186; institutions of, 149-150; meanings of, 22, 72-73; of medicine, 131; numerical, 158, 159, 169; prerequisite for, 123-124; and richness, 178-179; and rose, 233; and sacred shapes of light, 162; shapes and substances of, 240, 247; significance of skirt in, 94, 95, 96; transformations of, 148; and war metaforms, 271; and woman's paraphernalia, 86-87, 149; and writing, 210
• Cosmogony, 73, 147
• Cosmography, 73
• Cosmology, 73, 186
• Cosmos, 22, 72
• Couvade, 48
• Covenant: and Boat of Heaven, 214218; of Yahweh, ark and, 221-225
• Cowrie shells, 234-235
• Coyote, 52, 55, 62, 135, 186; creation of menstruation by, 34, 54, 232; and death rites, 125, 126-127; moon eaten by, 141; and salmon taboo, 105, 274
• Crafts, 229-230, 247; relationship between cosmetikos and, 240; trading and payment of, 234-237
• Crater Lake, 24
• Creation: fundamental connection between separation and, 15-16, 73-74; principles, menstrual, 273-276; stories, 7-9, 20, 25, 26-27, 36, 52, 60, 90, 210. See also Genesis; Ogotemmeli; Wawilak Sisters
• Creek Indians, 47
• Crescent, 120, 162, 163, 164, 187
• Crossing, as menstrual creation principle, 275
• Cucuteni culture, 177, 181
• Cuneiform, 210
• Dark, 277; ages of light vs., 265-266; separating light from, 11-18
• Dayamava, 261
• Day of Bathing, 205
• Death: journey to learn nature of, 218 219; rites, and menstruation, 124 127
• Decoration, body, 72, 73; motive for,  74-75 Deity, 179, 255; snake as oldest, 61-63.  See also Goddess(es); Royalty
• Delphi, oracle at, 85-86
• Demeter, 186, 206, 213-214
• Depilitation, 81
• Depression: early treatment of, 101; menstrual, 41
• Descartes, Rene, 267
• Descent myths, 211, 256; as menstrual journeys, 211-214
• "Descent of Inanna to the Underworld, The," 187, 211-213, 214
• Diameter (measurement), 168-169
• Diameter (Tiamat), 9, 168
• Diana, 15 Diana, Princess, 175
• Dieri tribe, 77
• Digging stick, 107
• Diseases, brought from Europe, 259 260; associated with goddesses, 260 262; shame about, 268
• Display, other techniques of menstrual,  78-81. See also Paint; Tattoos
• Divinities, 179. See also Goddess(es);  Royalty
• Dogon people, 73, 79, 80, 130, 237, 243; and circumcision, 46; creation myths of, 90; and death rites, 126; and drunken divination, 241; and fiber skirt, 94-95; and grains, 116-117, 234; holy man of, 116, 176; and male ceremonial thief, 251-252; and red ant mound, 55-57, 142, 180; and trade, 235. See also Ogotemmeli
• Dogs: and death rites, 127; taboos about,  54. See also Wild dogs
• Domestication, 135-136 Douglas, Nik, Sexual Secrets (with  P. Slinger), 188
• Doves, white, 182-183, 223
• Draco, 63
• Dragons and dragonfire, 63-66
• Dreams, 113
• Drugs, to heighten psychic effects of menstruation, 113
• Drunkenness, 241
• Dumuzi, 106, 201-202, 212-213, 253
• Durgamava, 261
• Dyes, 108, 109, 110, 115
• Ea, 215, 219, 220-221
• Ea/Enki, 215
• Eagle: bones, Paleolithic, 156; hunting, 134, 156
• Ear, objects worn in, 79
• Earth: formation of, 30-34; menstruation of, 203-208; and Sky, separation of, 7-8; surface of and female body, 38-40; underworld of, 66; and world creation taboos and land, 34-37
• Earthquakes, 37
• Egypt, ancient: ankh symbol of, 90; garlic and onions in, 108; grain in, 116; and measurement temples, 245. See also Great Pyramid
• Einstein, Albert, 271
• Emmenogogue, 111-112, 191; defined, 110
• Engineering, 229, 240-241
• England, folk customs of, 117-118
• Enki, 113-114, 212, 215-217, 219, 255
• Enkidu, 213, 218, 253-254, 260
• Enlil, 215, 219, 220, 221
• Entrainment, 13, 21
• Environment, menstruation and, 13
• Ereshkigal, 211, 212, 213, 256, 281
• Eros, 232
• Eskimos, 28, 168
• Estrus, 6, 7
• Euripides, 8
• Europe: and association of food preservation and menstruation, 102; brewster of, 113; cake of, 122; and chin tattoos, 159; source of Little Red Cap, 140; overran American continents, 348
• Eurydice, 213
• Eve, 63, 66, 93-94, 106, 112, 202, 248
• Evil Eye, 261, 262; and lowered gaze, 87-89
• Exodus, 221, 222, 242, 260
• Exogamy, 94, 142
• "Eye of Life," 87, 279
• Eyes: emphasis on power of, 74; makeup for, 87-88; ornaments around/between, 80. See also Evil Eye
• Falling Woman, 31, 183
• Farmer's Almanac, 108
• Farming, and menstrual logic; 203-207; and plagues, 260; and women, 107-108
• Fasting, 129, 135
• Fatness, attitudes toward, 82
• Feasts. See Festivals Feminism, 11, 276
• Fertility, 105, 110
• Festivals, 204-206, 207-208, 244
• Fig leaves, 94 Fire(s): cooking, 118; theft of, 251
• Fishing, 134
• Flood, 82; myths, 30-34, 35, 183, 211, 214-224, 260; system, early-warning, 245 Flowers, 230-234
• Food preservation and preparation, menstruation and, 102-104. See also Cooking Frazer, James, 4, 32, 36, 173; The Golden Bough, 3, 89
• Freud, Sigmund, 270
• Fruits, as metaforms, 105-106
• Gabrielino tribe, 80, 127
• Gaia, 8, 62, 186, 278
• Ganapathy, 189
• Garden of Eden, 63, 93-94, 106
• Garlic, 108
• Gay movements, emergence of, 276
• Gaze: Evil Eye and lowered, 87-89; making of pork sausage and fixed, 119
• Genesis, 26, 27, 34, 99, 258; creation story, 9, 11, 16, 105; Flood myth in, 221; and Garden of Eden, 106
• Geomancy, 64
• Geometry, 161-162, 164, 167
• Germ theory of disease, 268
• Geshtinanna, 213
• Gilgamesh, King, 213, 229, 253-254; flood and, 218-221, 260
• Gimbutas, Marija, 37, 59, 159-160,  181, 210, 249, 260
• Giparu (menstrual hut), 16. See also  Hut, menstrual
• Gloves, 91, 93, 175
• Goddess(es): as collective menstruant,  179-181; fat red moon, in fitted cap,  184-187; of moon's phases, 187-190; narrative path of, 190-191
• "Goddess theory," 249
• "God's Eye," 262
• Gold, as menstrual blood, 238, 239, 240, 242
• Golden Bough. See Frazer, James
• Goodale, Jane C., 4, 27-28, 110, 143
• Grains, 234, 292; cooking by washing, 115-118; fermented uses of, 113, 114
• Grapes, 113, 114
• Great Pyramid, 245-246
• Greece, ancient: creation myth of, 7-8; temples of, 244, 245; visionary priestesses of, 113
• Grimm brothers, 140
• Guaranis, 35
• Gum, 109; acacia, 109
• Hades, 213-214
• Haida women, 91
• Hair: care for, 72; coiffing of, 81
• Halloween, 203
• Hammurabi, code of, 242
• Hands: coverings for, 92-93; emphasis on, 74
• Hats, 91-92
• Haumea, 59-60
• Hawaii, 80, 259, 260; sacred areas in, 243-244. See also Haumea
• Hazel bushes, 141
• Healing, 127-131
• "Heat." See Estrus Hecate, 55, 170, 186, 214
• Helen, 66, 180
• Hera, 180, 186, 194, 223, 270; feast of, 244; sacred number of, 170, 190-191: temple of, 191, 244
• Herbs, herbal medicine, 111, 112, 130
• Herding, 254-255, 257-258, 260; and blood sacrifice, 135-137
• Hesiod, 8
• Heveh, 202
• Hidatsa Indians, 134
• HIV, 268
• Hogon, 116
• Homosexuals, 128, 187
• Hoods, 91-92
• Hopi people, 7, 56
• Hunting, and taboo, 131-135
• Hut, menstrual, 16-17, 22, 219, 247, in creation myth, 16; shapes of, 246; as orientation of village, 243; and temples, 244
• Hydra, 63
• Hygiea, 273
• Hymen, 30; and defloration, 48
• Icons, and images, 184-187
• Illness, healing and menstruation, 127131
• Ills, four, to diminish humankind, 221, 260
• Inanna, 113-114, 177, 186, 229, 255-256, 271; and apple tree, 106; Descent myth of, 187, 211-213, 214; eightpointed symbol of, 233; Flood myths of, 214-218, 219, 220; and Gilgamesh, 253-254; and metals and gems, 238; and New Year's celebrations, 201-202; storehouse of, 85, 247; and taverns, 242; texts of, 211
• "Inanna Meets the God of Wisdom," 106, 215-218
• Incest, 94, 117, 142, 148, 234
• India: agricultural festivals in, 204-206, 207; artisans in, 229; dragon in, 64; goddesses equated with moon's phases in, 187-189; indication of menstruating woman in, 75; lesbians in, 187; meat in, 132; objects worn in nose in, 79; smallpox goddess in, 261; snake in, 61; and Tantrism, 88, 149
• Indra, 114
• Industrial revolution, 154
• Initiation, 47, 61
• Inquisition, 261, 262
• Instincts, 21-22
• Instruction, as menstrual creation principle, 274
• Iroquois, 31, 36, 183
• Ishtar, 202, 211, 213, 218, 219, 221, 229. See also Inanna
• Isimud, 215, 216
• Isis, 90, 170, 187, 213
• Isvara, 205
• Jackal, 52, 55, 62, 72, 135, 193; and creation of fiber skirt, 93, 94; and red ant mound, 55-57, 117, 142, 180
• Jade, 238
• Jagannatha, 205
• Javahe tribe, 46
• Jewelry: body-shaping and, 82; embedded, 82; facial, 79-80
• Jews: circumcision among, 46; and "the water of separation," 29; menstruation viewed by, 102
• Jivaro women, 79
• Judas, 258
• Julunggul, 32
• Jump Dance, 105
• Juno, 236
• Kaffir, 77
• Kali, 170, 188-189, 260
• Kali Ma, 155
• Karaja tribe, 79
• Kara-Kirghiz women, 105
• Karok people, 76, 105, 232, 274
• Kerenyi, Carl, 190, 194, 244
• Kichepo people, 183-184
• Kinaalda, 48, 122, 129, 161
• Kitanemuk tribe, 38-39, 56
• Knight, Chris, 7, 12-13, 46, 53, 118; Blood Relations, 132
• Kogi people, 54, 174, 210, 236, 238, 239
• Kolosh Indians, 78 Kore, 186, 206
• Kumari, 188, 189
• Kurgarra priests, 202
• Laksmi, 114, 188, 189, 205, 206
• Land, world creation taboos and, 34-37
• Lapis lazuli, 242; as menstrual blood, 238
• Lawrence, Denise L., 119
• Legumes, 115
• Lesbianism, lesbians, 149, 187, 232-233, 276
• Leto, 27
• Leviticus, 16, 183, 211, 223, 232, 262
• Light, 277; vs. dark, ages of, 265-266; impersonating birds and other emissaries of, 181-184; menstruation and changes of, 13; rise of clean male, 262-265; sacred shapes of, 161-164; separating dark from, 11-18
• Lines: parallel, 162, 166-168; straight, 161,166-168
• Lip: bar, 159; plugs, 78-79
• Lipstick, 75-76, 77
• "Little Red Cap" ("Little Red Riding Hood"), 140-142
• Logic, menstrual, 192, 194, 198, 201, 203-208; as menstrual creation principle, 274 Lorde, Audre, 271
• Lovelock, James, 278
• Lucifer, 26
• Lugh, 26, 110
• "Lunar blood," 114
• Lupa, 139
• Lupercalia, 139
• M, letter, 210
• Maasai people, 66
• Mab (Fairy Queen), 113
• Mabuiag, island of, 36
• Maidu Indians, 98
• Male: menstruation, 44-47; seclusion and male science, 266-269. See also Parallel menstrual rites; Penis; War metaforms
• Mama, as Kogi priests, 219, 221
• Mammu, 26
• Man, derivation of word, 49-50
• Maoris, 22, 60, 76
• Marduk, 65, 182
• Marglin, Frederique, Wives of the God King, 204
• Margulis, Lynn, 278
• Maritji, 28
• Marriage, 142-143; bridal dress for, 147-149; modern, 145-147; Tiwi, 143.-145
• Marshack, Alexander, 155, 156, 157
• Marshall Islands, 81
• Masks, 48-49
• Materialism, 273; as cosmetikos of earth, 240; as crafts, 229; as exchange of metaforms, 237; as male separation, 252, 253, 266, 267; as objectification, 263, 264; as paternal production, 254, 255; as replacement for sacrifice, 258; as view of earth and female, 249
• Material metaform, 23, 225
• Matricide, 65
• Matrimony. See Marriage
• Mawadi, 32-33
• Mayan people, 62, 64
• Me, holy, 216-217
• Mead, Margaret, 4
• Meat: cooking by purifying, 118-120; red, taboos about, 132, 133. See also Hunting
• Medatia, 32-33
• Medicine, tribal, 129-131. See also Healing; Illness
• Medusa, 186
• Melville Island, 27, 48
• Menarche, 11, 14, 48, 72, 78, 124; emergence from, 81, 83; men and, 48-49; number of days of, 157
• Menopause, 101-102
• Mesopotamia, 201, 210, 214-215, 218, 236; mythology of, 27, 221, 253, 260
• Metaform(s), 31, 62; compound, 63-66; cooking by combining, 120-122; cooking by gathering and growing, 107-111; cosmetic, 22-23, 68, 7273; defined, 20; material, 23, 225; as menstrual creation principle, 274; metaphor and, 18-23; mineral, 237-241; narrative, 23, 73, 150, 191, 224225, 247; serpent, 63 (see also Snake); war, 269-271; wilderness, 22, 34, 51-52, 68, 130, 181, 190, 213
• Metallurgy, 229, 240
• Metaphor, 9, 40; embodied, 19; and metaform, 18-23
• Midwife, 124
• Milky Way, 63, 65
• Mind and body, cooking by altering states of, 111-115
• Mineral metaforms, 237-241
• Miwok people, 47, 54, 55, 125
• Mokele, 26, 251
• Money, 235, 236, 237
• Moon: bread shaped like, 120-122; and development of agriculture, 108; goddesses as phases of, 187-190; menstruation of sun and, 194-197; relation of menstruation to, 4, 7, 13-14, 43; and separation of waters, 25-30; shapes of, 163-164; wild dogs and, 55
• Moon Hare of China, 114
• Mother Kali, 155
• Mrs. Grieves' Herbal, 118
• Murder, 128-129, 207, 214; collective, 126; sacrificial, 192, 207
• Murinaleta, 27-28, 143
• Murngin, 32
• Music, on New Year's, 203
• Muso Koroni, as menstrual leopard, 54; as millet goddess, 116
• Myths, 4-5, 10-11; earliest written, 211
• Nana, 213
• Nanna, 26
• Naotsete, 187
• Narrative metaform, 150, 247; as cause and effect, 200; causing menstrual flow, 209; as cosmography, 73; crossing gender, 224-225; defined, 23; and development of farming, 207; as menstrual logic, 200-201; as path of menstruant, 179; using number as story, 155. See also Flood, myths; Descent myths
• Native Americans, 36, 40, 92, 168, 270; death rites of, 126-127; and four earthly directions, 218; medicine of, 130; mythology of, 34, 141; tobacco used by, 112
• Navajos, 34, 54, 56, 129; Kinaaldá of,  48, 122, 129, 161
• Neanderthals, 131, 231
• Necroforms, 266, 276
• Nepthys, 170, 187
• New Guinea, 35, 91, 93, 99, 173
• New Ireland, 35, 89
• New Moon celebrations, 201, 202, 203
• New South Wales, 45
• Newton, Sir Isaac, 267
• New Year's celebrations, 201-203, 207 208, 210, 220, 270
• Nias, island of, 39
• Ningal, 26, 186, 271
• Ninkasi, 114, 242
• Ninshubur, 212, 216-218
• Noah, 221; ark of, 183, 223
• Noisemaking, on New Year's, 203
• Number(s), 153-154, 164-166; enacted and embodied, sacred, 157-158; and menstruant calendar, 155-157; as ornament, 158-160; sacred, and sacred shape (pi), combinations of, 168-171
• Nummo, 94
• Nursing, 77, 124, 136
• Offield, Mamie, 105
• Ogotemmeli, 55-56, 57, 94, 209, 234, 235, 251-252
• Olympic games, origin of, 194
• "One Who Looked into the Abyss, The," 218, 253
• Onions, 108
• Opossum, 67, 199-200
• Orientation, basis for, 160-161
• Origin stories. See Creation, stories
• Ornament, number as, 158-160
• Orpheus, 213
• Osiris, 55, 213
• Oya, 148, 163
• Paint, blood signals and, 75-78
• Pandora's box, 85
• "Paps of Ann," 179
• Parallel menstrual rites, 44, 46, 49, 65, 123
• Parallel menstrual taboos, 47-48
• Paraphernalia, 99-100; brought to marriage, 142-143; cosmetikos and woman's, 86--87; elements of engineering and design in, 240-241
• Parivarams, 17
• Parthenogenesis, 107-108
• Parvati, 189, 205
• Patagonians, 54
• Payment, idea of, 234-237
• Pele, 187
• Penis, 48; guns and, 270; ritual cutting of, 65; snake and, 58, 61; splitting, 45-46
• Perception, beginning of human, 11-12
• Persephone, 186, 213-214
• Phallus, symbol of, 262
• Philippines, 104, 119, 158
• Pi, 169
• Pies, 106, 121, 164
• Plagues, 221, 260, 261
• Plains Indians, 163
• Plants: to induce altered states of mind, 112; to regulate menstruation, 111-112; as vulva, 231
• Plato, Timaeus, 245
• Platonists, 170
• Pleiades, 198-199, 200, 202
• Pluto, 213
• Poisons, 128, 130
• Pomegranates, 105, 110, 214
• Popol Vuh, 195, 196, 213
• Porcupine, 67
• Pork sausage, making of, 119
• Portugal, 29, 119
• Potatoes, as dyes, 108-109
• Potions and powders, medicinal, 130, 131
• Pottery, 229, 240; craft of, 238-239
• Pregnancy, red paint and, 77
• Pretty Shield, 125
• Prometheus, 251
• Pronoia, 232
• Prostitution, as ritual, 139-140
• Psyche, 232, 237
• Puberty, 44, 45, 47-48, 56
• Pueblo peoples, 163, 187
• Purifying meats, cooking by, 118-120
• Pythagoras, 170, 245
• Pythia, 113
• Q'or, 206
• Quarters, lunar, 163-164
• Queen Charlotte Islands, 91
• Queen of Heaven and Earth. See Inanna
• Quiche Maya, 195
• Rainbow, 221
• Rainbow Snake, 33-34, 59, 61, 186, 224; metaform of, 62; myth of Wawilak Sisters and, 12-13, 24, 25, 32, 57,  60, 123. See also Snake
• Raja Samkranti, 204-205
• Red ant mound, 186, 234; jackal and,  55-57, 117, 142, 180
• "Red clay man," 106
• "Red Clay People," 78
• Reddish foods, 109-110, 115
• Red Eel Woman, 59-60, 186. See also Haumea
• Red Island, 53
• Red substances, 76, 78
• Reed, Evelyn, 107
• Remedies, ancient health, 130
• Rhodes, island of, 66
• "Rim of Fire," 37
• Rites, menstrual, 3, 4, 5-6, 20. See also  Seclusion rites
• River Styx, 213
• Romi Kumu, as sky goddess, 199-200
• Romulus and Remus, 139
• Ronga people, 62-63
• Rose, 230-234, 237, 272
• Royalty, 172-179. See also Goddess(es)
• R'tu, defined, 5-6
• Rubber, 195-196
• Rugs, 99
• Sabbats (or Sabbaths), 15-16
• Sacrifice, 192-193; blood, 199, 207, 237, 245, 257-258; and compassion, 193-194, 197-198; crisis of, 214; of dogs, 127; herding and blood, 135-137
• Salmon, as taboo, 104-105, 274
• Salt, as purifying agent, 119-120
• Sappho, 233
• Sara, 223
• Sara Kali, 155
• Sarasvati, 188, 189, 205, 206
• Satan, 256, 261, 262, 265; as metaform, 266-267
• Sauer, Carl, 136
• Scandinavia, 66, 168
• Scarification, 48, 80
• Scarring societies, 48
• Science, male seclusion and male, 266-269
• Scottish Highlands, 31, 110-111
• Scratching stick, 38, 86, 134, 145, 156, 240-241
• "Sea Mist," 187
• Seclusion rites, menstrual, 3-4, 20, 25, 51, 52-53; and body language, 7275; and body of menstruant, 37-38; emergence from, 16-17; and sacred numbers enacted and embodied, 157; and separation of waters, 28-29, 30; and shamanism, 33; taboos included in, 11, 14-15, 16, 17-18, 24, 35; and trees, 67
• Semen, 96, 236, 277
• Separation, 20; creation through, 15-16, 73-74; of dark from light, 11-18; male, from Queen of Heaven and Earth, 252--257; and menstrual creation principle, 274; process of, 10-11
• Serpent, 82; metaform, 63; as symbol for doctoring, 127. See also Snake
• Seven Sisters, 198-199
• Sex: exchange of meat for, 132
• Sexual intercourse, 139, 143, 148, 201202, 207, 209
• Sexuality, control of, by male-centered laws, 257
• Shamanism, shamans, 33, 127, 128, 129, 249-250
• Shame, 93, 106, 233; about diseases, 268; ceremony, 279-281; menstrual, 257, 258-259, 261-262
• Sharanahua women, 209
• Shekinah, 262
• Shiva, 188, 189
• Shoes, origins of, 89-91
• Shuswap Indians, 87
• Silver, 238
• Skirt, creation of fiber, 93-96, 148
• Sky, menstruation of, 198-200
• Sky Woman, 183
• Slashing, 75, 125, 127-128
• Slinger, Penny, Sexual Secrets (with N. Douglas), 188
• Smallpox, 259, 260-261, 268
• Smithing, 229, 237, 240, 251-252
• Snake, 93-94, 111, 113, 158, 181; as Female Instructing Principle, 63; as god/goddess, 180; as oldest deity, 6163; shedding by, 58-59; as synchronous menstruation, 57-61. See also Dragons and dragonfire; Rainbow Snake
• Snake societies, 61
• "Snow White," 90
• Spices, 109
• Story, 209-210; sacred (hieros logos), 191, 210-211, 274
• Straws, 97, 166, 242
• Subcision, 45-46
• Substitution, as menstrual creation principle, 274-275
• Sumerian texts, 106, 113-114, 121, 125
• Sun: distinguishing between moon and, 26; menstruation of moon and, 194197; theft of, 251
• Swazi people, 63
• Swimming, menstruation and, 29
• Synchroneity, 13, 21, 66, 167, 181
• Taberna, tabernacle, 241-243
• Tablets, 210, 247; clay, 225, 252
• Taboo(s), 4, 30, 78; about cooking and menstruation, 102-107, 119, 120, 129; defined, 5; hunting and, 131-135; illness and breaking of, 129, 131; incest, 148; in menstrual seclusion rites, 11, 14-15, 16, 17-18, 24, 35, 91; parallel menstrual, of boys and men, 47-48; against scratching, 39; about touching, 37-38; world creation, and land, 34-37
• Taiowa the Creator, 7
• Tammuz, 213
• Tantrism, 88, 149, 188, 257
• Tapua (taboo), 5. See also Taboo(s)
• Tapuga tribes, 77
• Tattoos, 76, 78, 80-81; chin, 76, 158159, 160; raised, 80
• Tavern, sacred, 241-243
• Temples, 243-247; ancient Greek, 244, 245
• Thesmophoria, 111, 204
• Thievery, male ritual tradition of, 249-252
• Thompson Indians, 134, 148
• Three, sacred number, 158, 159, 164, 168-169, 170
• Tiamat, 8-9, 16, 168, 179, 182, 252; creation story of, 65, 211; great walls of water of, 219, 269
• Tinamou Chief, 199
• Tinneh tribe, 91-92, 93
• Tiwi people, 27-28, 30, 48, 135, 270; hunting dogs of, 54; red yams and, 110; wedding of, 126, 143-145
• Tlingit Indians, 78
• Tobacco, 112
• Tokpela, 7
• Tompkins, Peter, 246
• Trade, 234-237
• Tree(s): courtship and, 138--139; menstrual world, 66-68; menstruants dressed as, 180; oak, 141
• Triangle, 161, 162, 166-168, 170
• Tsetsaut tribe, 93
• Tseuheur, 130
• Tsimshian Indians, 7
• Tucuna people, 48-49, 66
• Tuwale, 32
• Twinness, and trade, 234
• Uiyumkwi tribe, 53
• Umash, 27
• Umbilical cord, 60, 67-68, 90, 240
• Underworld, 66, 182, 215; and "The Descent of Inanna to the Underworld," 187, 211-213, 214
• Uretsete, 187
• Utensils, kitchen, 96-98, 100, 115
• Utnapishtim, 219, 220, 221, 222
• Utu, 215, 253-254
• Vagina, 60; snake and, 58, 61; traveling, 59
• Veil, wedding, 145, 147-148; as cloth, 92
• Venus (goddess), 184-185, 201, 217
• Venus (planet), 196, 201, 202, 215, 217, 254
• "Venus de Milo," 185
• "Venus of Willendorf, The," 185
• Volcanoes, 37
• Vulva, 59, 61,75; and blood signals, 75; and red ant mound, 55-56; scars representing, 80; V's or chevrons on figures as, 160; words meaning, 85, 87
• Walker, Barbara, 232
• Wandjinda, 59
• Wanyamwesi, 61
• War metaforms, 269-271
• Water(s): differentiation of different kinds of, 27; menstrual blood and, 24, 25; proto- or all-moon and separation of, 25-30
• Wawilak Sisters, 46, 105, 124, 167, 212; myth of, 12-13, 32, 57, 60, 123
• "Way, the," and "the way back," 276-279
• Weapon, derivation of word, 50
• Wedding: cakes, 122, 146; modern, 145-147; Tiwi, 126, 143-145; veil, 145,147-148
• Weitchpec Susie, 236
• Wife, derivation of word, 50
• Wild dogs, 132, 135-136; women's blood and, 52-55
• Wilderness metaform: birds as, 181-184; Dumuzi in form of, 213; and flood myths, 34; as medicines, 130; red ants as, 55-57; snakes as, 55-73; types of, 51-52; wild dogs as, 52-55; Zeus in form of, 190
• Wine, 113, 114-115
• Witches, 54, 112, 130, 131, 169, 261, 264
• Wolf, 52, 55, 72, 135, 139; and "Little Red Cap," 140-142
• Woman, derivation of word, 50
• Woodpecker scalps, 236
• World: creation taboos and lands, 34-37; formation story, 30-34 World War 11, 108
• Writing, beginning of, 210-211, 225, 247
• Xibalba, 196
• Xquic, 195
• Yabim tribe, 89-90, 99
• Yahweh, 255-256, 260; ark and covenant of, 221-225
• Yams, 108, 109, 111
• Yaracares, 17
• Yawira, 199
• Year, menstruation of, 200-203
• Yggdrasil, 66, 180
• Yirrkalla people, 167
• Yoni, 58, 59
• Yurlunggur, 32
• Yurok, 232, 236
• Zeus, 190, 191
• Zigzag, 210
• Zulus, 36
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