Henna, foreskins and dates?
Posted by Michelle on January 14, 2000 at 08:40:37:
I read this piece of info' in a book on Egypt;
Important ceremonies.
The life of the male child is marked by two important ceremonies,
his circumcision and his marriage. The circumcision is generally
done around the age of eight, the celebrant being the villiage
barber??
The child wears a cap with tassels and a cashmere shawl, and parades
through the village streets on a richly decorated horse, acompanied
by musicians.
The next day the barber takes the boy dressed in a long-sleeved white
robe, and cuts off his foreskin, which he rolls in one of his sleeves,
where it stays until the wound heals, washed every day with henna.
On the seventh day the skin is placed in a date, which is then baked
in a loaf of bread. The bread is then thrown into the Nile as an
offering....
- a very complex tradition! Catherine Cartwright Jones 14:21:31 1/14/00
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