ROLE OF THE SACRAL IN CULTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS OF HUMANKIND REPRODUCTIVE FUNCTION
Journal Title: Δόξα / Докса. Збірник наукових праць з філософії та філології - Year 2018, Vol 1, Issue
Abstract
Since the human history had start, people began to taboo (prohibit incest), cultivate (sex for a pleasure only) and channelled (prostitution) their own reproductive function, which was inherited by them from the nature. Although all cultures forbade those sexual acts that did not contribute to the birth of children, sacralisation of such acts helped overcome any prohibitions. Ritual incest, coitus with animals, non-physiological sexual relations, temple prostitution were declared sacral. Through their ingenious sexual exercises, which were sanctioned by pagan gods, people left animals far behind. After such changes a sexual function in the society has lost animal naturalness and transformed into a specifically human phenomenon. Thus, at the first stage of sacralisation, the reproductive function ceased to be natural and became very human. At the second stage of sacralisation, this function became not only human but also humanity one. This process has evolved in two directions. Eastern Indian religious tradition, in one case, continued to use corporal images, but now pornographic bas-reliefs of some Indian temples were used by believers to make themselves sure that they do not get tempted by these images. In another case, some Indian religions considered bodily pleasures as a path to spiritual enlightenment. In this way, the physiologically accurate images of the orgy were negated for the sake of assertion of high spirituality. Western Christian tradition gradually eliminated any physiological corporeality and also subjected this body function to taboo. In this religion marriage, conception, birth, infancy and motherhood got sacred significance. The culmination point of the cultural transformation of the reproductive function was the Christian understanding of Love. The first stage sacralised the bodily-physiological aspect of reproduction of folks, but the second stage and gave to the human reproductive function a highly spiritual and sacred traits, when the birth of people for the Lord was considering as a charity.
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Oleksandr Kyrylyuk
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- DOI 10.18524/2410-2601.2018.1(29).146514
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