It is not that the sword-flourisher threatens himself only by calling forth another sword-flourisher to challenge him. That is only half the picture.

It is a crop, like a crop of corn, which differs from a natural field of grasses in the way that a crop of trees differs from a woods.

Most of these mothers also had dominating mothers and submissive fathers of their own, and their husbands had also been obedient sons of dominating mothers; in Freudian terms, the castrativeness all around was rather extreme.

Porcophobia and porcophilia — thus probably originate in a nighttime of human sacrifice and even cannibalism at which the “holy” texts often do more than hint.