The symbols for male or female organs and gametes where did the come from in ancient times?
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the male symbol is the ancient symbol for mars, and women are venus.\n"Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus."
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The reason is all embryos start out female until about six weeks when the male sex chromosome kicks in for a male embryo. The embryo then begins to develop all of its male characteristics. Men are left with nipples and also some breast tissue.
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God formed her after removing Adam's rib.  So there were other factors in creating woman that would keep her dna from being the same.
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try google images... some great pic and anatomical diagrams
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Besides the ovbious male-female definition, goddesses and gods are separated philosophically in the terms of patriarchal religions (such as the abrahamic jewdaism, christianism and islam, that are cousins) and matriarchal religions, such as the old european religions of druidry, asatru and traditional witchcraft (not wicca because it is modern).\n\nIn patriarcal religions, that started with the polytheistic olympics in ancient greeks, male figures rule the world... and if there are goddesses there they ahave a male like personality (like athenea).\n\nIn matriarchal religions the male-female polarities tend to be more balanced, attributing aspects of ruling to each gender. I.E. fertility and creativity to female, and strength and endurance to male.
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The heart simply pumps the blood to supply the brain with "power." The heart cannot live without the brain, and the brain cannot live without the heart. Along these lines of thinking, that the two work in perfect tandem, I believe that is why we say that some emotions come from the heart. \n\nUsually, we associate sentimental or sensual emotions with the heart and knowledge or intelligence/common sense with the brain, when really, they all originate in the brain. But I think it's a great metaphor to indicate emphasis on your feelings when you are trying to communicate how you feel. This heart vs. brain thing seems to be a phenonmenon across cultures and languages. \n\nJust a side note: the ancient egyptians thought that the heart was the main thinking and reasoning organ of the body so this was one of the only organs that they would leave IN the body during mummification. They would extract other organs that they felt weren't necessary for the afterlife (liver, kidneys....and the brain). They thought that the heart was the essential organ so that they could function in the afterlife.
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Female- Eggs\nMale- sperm\n\nEggs are made from their stem cells when the female is still in the womb, and then develop when the female goes through puberty.\n\nSperm are made when the male goes through puberty.\n\nThis is for humans, I am unsure of how other organisms do it.
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I was going to write this all out to explain it to you, but this website said exactly what I was going to say, but better and with more detail...\n\n"Base 60 (Sexagesimal) Numbering system\n\nThe Sumerian culture developed the Sexagesimal Numbering system some 4000 to 6000 years ago. This system was developed into a rigorous numbering system. The digits used were symbols which represented syllables instead of letters that were pressed into clay tablets. There were symbols representing ones and tens and were combined to represent the number of each place value.  See the following site for more information about the Sumerian numbering system. http://it.stlawu.edu/~dmelvill/mesomath/index.html\n\nEach place value to the left is equal to 60 times the place value to the right which implies that each place value to the right is equal to the place value to the left divided by 60. It was up to the context of the number to determine where the place values began. Also, the place values may be fractions of base 60 numbers, ie. 1/60, 1/3600, etc.\n\n3600, 60, 1, 1/60, 1/3600 \n\nThe use of 60 as a grouping number was used by many cultures throughout our earth's history. This may be because 60 has many factors, including 12 (which also has many factors) and was convenient to use for trading, counting, etc. because of its divisibility. Our notations of time into 60 seconds and 60 minutes uses a from of this numbering system, but is not as rigorous because of the 24 for hours and the subdivisions of seconds into milliseconds, etc."
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Woman concieved man. Man concieved god. God comes from woman- so she's a Goddess.
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No.  "Fetuses" by definition have already started to develop sexual organs.  However, embryos do not start out as females either.  They always have the genetic code of their sex from the time of fertilization.
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I researched this on the web for you, I hope it helps:\n\nThe Ankh was, for the ancient Egyptians, the symbol (the actual Hieroglyphic sign) of life but it is an enduring icon that remains with us even today as a Christian cross. It is one of the most potent symbols represented in Egyptian art, often forming a part of decorative motifs. \n\nThe ankh seems at least to be an evolved form of, or associated with the Egyptian glyph for magical protection, sa. However, what the sign itself represents is often disputed. For example, Sir Alan Gardiner thought that it showed a sandal strap with the loop at the top forming the strap, but if so, the symbolism is obscure and so his theory has found little real favor early on. However, this interpretation seems to have received some acceptance among modern writers. It would seem that the ancient Egyptians called that part of the sandal 'nkh (exact pronunciation unknown). Because this word was composed of the same consonants as the word "life", the sign to represent that particular part of the sandal, was also used to write the word "life".\n\nAnother theory holds that the ankh was symbolic of the sunrise, with the loop representing the Sun rising above the horizon, which is represented by the crossbar. The vertical section below the crossbar would then be the path of the sun \n\nWolfhart Westendorf felt it was associated with the tyet emblem, or the "knot of Isis". He thought both were ties for ceremonial girdles. Winfried Barta connected the ankh with the royal cartouche in which the king's name was written, while others have even identified it as a penis sheath. The presence of a design resembling a pubic triangle on one ankh of the New kingdom seems to allow for the idea that the sign may be a specifically sexual symbol. In fact, guides in Egypt today like to tell tourists that the circle at the top represents the female sexual organ, while the stump at the bottom the male organ and the crossed line, the children of the union. However, while this interpretation may have a long tradition, there is no scholarly research that would suggest such an exact meaning. \n\nThe ankh, on some temple walls in Upper Egypt, could also symbolize water in rituals of purification. Here, the king would stand between two gods, one of whom was usually Thoth, as they poured over him a stream of libations represented by ankhs. \n\nThe ancient gods of Egypt are often depicted as carrying ankh signs. We find Anqet, Ptah, Satet, Sobek, Tefnut, Osiris, Ra, Isis, Hathor, Anibus and many other gods often holding the ankh sign, along with a scepter, and in various tomb and temple reliefs, placing it in front of the king's face to symbolize the breath of eternal life. During the Amarna period, the ankh sign was depicted being offered to Akhenaten and Nefertiti by the hands at the end of the rays descending from the sun disk, Aten. Therefore, the ankh sign is not only a symbol of worldly life, but of life in the netherworld. Therefore, we also find the dead being referred to as ankhu, and a term for a sarcophagus was neb-ankh, meaning possessor of life.  \n\nIt is at least interesting that the ankh word was used for mirrors from at least the Middle Kingdom onward, and that indeed, many mirrors were shaped in the form of an ankh sign. Life and death mirror each other, and in any number of ancient religions, mirrors were used for purposes of divination.  \n\nIn fact, the ankh sign in ancient Egypt seems to have transcended illiteracy, being comprehensible to even those who could not read. Hence, we even find it as a craftsman's mark on pottery vessels.\n\nAs the Christian era eclipsed Egypt's pharaonic pagan religion, the sign was adapted by the Coptic church as their unique form of a cross, known as the crux ansata.
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The origin of the word menopause\nThe Greek translation is men = month and pausein = to stop. \n\nI'm sure that's more than you really wanted to know but I had fun looking it up.
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Andreas Vesalius, "De Humani Corporis Fabrica" [On the Structure of the Human Body] first published in 1543
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They are Pagan symbols of fertility originally used in the celebration of Eastre, the welcoming of spring on the vernal equinox.\n\nChristians later adopted Eastre traditions so as to blend in to the Pagan majority while attempting to recruit converts. They also adopted the name and the date as well, until the Constantine changed the name and declared the "Easter Rule" at the Council of Nicaea. The Council of Nicaea was also when the Christian Church adopted the Pagan idea of the trinity to apply to "the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit," and was also the meeting at which the cross was made the official symbol of Christianity.
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In a religious/philisophical context, flowers symbolize renewal.  Either renewal of the body or of the soul. Also, perennial plants (ones which flower yearly) are analogus to the religious doctrine of ressurection.    A lot has to do with the ancient's perception of illness and the role that plants/flowers played in that.  Medicinal plants/flowers restored ill people to health, so there is a subconscious need to maintain a "relationship" with flowers/plants.  I know that this is a little disjointed, but I'm just giving you the tip of the iceberg to work with.\n\nGood Luck
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in ancient Greece\nAlexander was gay\nalso in Sodom
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Being an immature stage of development the reproductive organs are likely to be undeveloped too, ie no point in wasting energy on something not being used!?\n In contrast adult male and female butterflies and moths have well developed genital organs.