Circumcision: The Truth Behind It?
Circumcision Ritual
Asalam aleykum, my brothers and sisters.
It’s been awhile since I blogged. Truth is, I haven’t had much worth sharing, that would be mutually beneficial. So rather than turn my blog into my therapist, I decided to save y’all the drama.
Anyway, back to the issue at hand. Circumcision, what was its purpose?
We’ve been told that it was used to mark progression, for a boy, from childhood to manhood.
Well, till yesterday, that was my reality. Then it was brought to my attention, that the cutting of a boy/man’s foreskin, wasn’t actually to mark any progression, but as a hygienic measure, to control infections.
Shocking, huh? Yeah, I was also taken back by that comment.
Different African cultures have different methods of initiation. The cutting of the foreskin, is common amongst Bantus. Which apparently, is explained by their migratory patterns.
The Bantus migrated through some dry/semi-arid areas of Southern Africa. While on the other hand, the Nilotes, specifically the River-Lake Nilotes, migrated along rivers and lakes from Northern Africa.
At first, I was like, that’s a coincidence. Then I considered the Jews. They migrated through deserts in Arabia to Northern Africa. So to an extent, it does make sense. But I’ll do more research.
Militant out.
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