Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoTIL the Aztecs regarded childbirth as a form of battle. Women who died during childbirth were thought to rise to one of the highest heavens - the same one as for male warriors who died in battle.www.mexicolore.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square42fedilinkarrow-up1616arrow-down111
arrow-up1605arrow-down1external-linkTIL the Aztecs regarded childbirth as a form of battle. Women who died during childbirth were thought to rise to one of the highest heavens - the same one as for male warriors who died in battle.www.mexicolore.co.ukDon_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square42fedilink
minus-squarePhlubbaDubbalinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoSimilar thing actually happened in early Islaam, except it was for deaths from epidemic instead of childbirth. That one being because a shitton of Mohammed’s original faithful had died of plague during the initial campaigns of the faith.
Similar thing actually happened in early Islaam, except it was for deaths from epidemic instead of childbirth. That one being because a shitton of Mohammed’s original faithful had died of plague during the initial campaigns of the faith.