Today I Learned @lemmy.world Don_Dickle @lemmy.world 3 mo. ago

TIL 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.uk /aztecs/aztec-life/giving-birth-was-fighting-a-battle

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- I, on the other hand
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  You have some sort of dark mode/reader on which is making the text white.
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Righteous
Well, child mortality rate was really high before modern medicine. No wonder many cultures exalt the process of birth.
- Maternal mortality wasn't quite a Holocaust until they started having women give birth in hospitals without germ theory so nobody was washing their fucking hands and the doctors were reaching up there to check on the placenta and killing loads of women with puerperal sepsis. 18 percent maternal mortality rate at the time, when 300 years in the past (based on church records of births and deaths) it was closer to 3 percent.
  
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis
  
  Still true that birth is more dangerous in humans.
Well it is a battle because our stupid ass species evolved huge ass heads without changing the size of the birth canal...
- Footage of the event:
  
  What is this?
  
  Whoa what a throwback
- Well, or because we became bipods and made the birth canal smaller
Based Aztecs
- Ok I keep seeing that used everywhere what does based mean?
  
  It means that have opinions or ideals that are just that good and worth looking up to.
  
  So basically what "Woke" used to mean before it became a Right Wing buzzword
  
  Originally, 'based' was just a shortened form of 'based in facts and reality', but as it became prolific, the phrase's origin got forgotten, so now it's come full circle where people jokingly ask, "based? Based on what?" Completely ignorant of the original meaning.
Conversely, Mussolini reportedly said that war is to men what childbirth is to women
Sounds very Klingon.
Spartans were very similar.
Didn't Sparta have a similar belief as far as honoring women who died in childbirth equally to men who died in battle?
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.
TIL Trump has no Aztec heritage.
Jesus, they needed soap.
I guess this community is a one-person show now. Bye.
- Well was told by admins and the side bar to make a community active you need to post. Also I am very much a wikihead
  
  Thank you for doing so! I've been reading about Mesoamerican history lately and love additional facts.
  
  It's amazing how cultures separated by 10,000+ years can be so incredibly similar in general, yet distinct in the fine details!
- You can make it your show
- I am not a bot or spamming . Why don't you like what I post?
  
  Keep up the good work op. We just need more people posting too. You can't control that.
  
  I can only suggest actually looking at the titles you post, then, since most of them get cropped off due to character limit. Seems a bit automated given how frequently I've seen it happen to your posts in particular.
  
  Ok, so I learnt something and checks calendar, yeap, it's definitely Today! Seems like everything is to code around here. Keep up the good work!!
- So post something, slick

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