blog schedule.
blogs marked * are required research for seminars
blog 34 |
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blog subject:Outline the beliefs and practices surrounding birth. |
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resource questions for blog research:birth |
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| Who may be present at the delivery? | |
| Why are some children born dead? | |
| How does one get twins? Are both permitted to live? | |
| Why is delivery occasionally so difficult? | |
| Why are some children born in different positions? What do each of these mean? | |
| Why are some children born prematurely? | |
| Why is the top of the child’s head soft at birth? | |
| How must the navel be cared for? | |
| With what does one cut the umbilical cord? | |
| What is done with the afterbirth? | |
| May evil spirits find entrance into the newly born body? How? How is this prevented? When is the danger of evil spirits greatest for the child? | |
| If children are killed at birth, who does the killing? Is this considered good? Is it punished? Who does the punishing? How? Does the relevant deity care? Is he/she involved in the punishing? | |
| What is done with the premarital child? The extra-marital child? | |
| How do people come into existence? What were they before they were born? | |