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Article #112: Family, Incest, and Law

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Family Values in Ancient Times: war once it was approved. These women
Many people of the present make some very owned the assets or leaseholds. No one
grave and disturbing assumptions about owned land just as was true in the land
prior unethical behaviour by humans. My use laws of the Kelts which the English
theories may be biased and overly had to expunge along with all other just
appreciative of a time before Empire and and fair culture when they finally forced
there is less data due to the destructive Ireland under their rule. The Indians
power of Empire and the hegemony to go still practice Potlatch or the giving of
on. However, that data is more pure and respect and assets despite the 1920s law
less likely to have been promoted or against it in Canada. We can all imagine
propagandized for the interests of the Tax collectors don't like this kind
power-mongers. Top scholars and those who of custom. It was much more than mere
are regarded as great academics still taxes the government sought and the
debate whether women ever had equal Supreme Court has ruled the government
rights and some state there never were and Catholic Church were intent on the
matriarchal societies of great note. It total destruction of Indian beliefs, in
would be a surprise for me if there were recent rulings.
not many different approaches used in "In any event, the incest tabus
various cultures and millennia before the recognized in any given hunting society
Ice Age we just experienced and bear some relationship to his choice (or
thereafter, leading up to what we call to his and/or her parents' choice) of a
history. Much of history today has all marital partner. Of these prohibitions
the markings of hegemony akin to the there are three basic and quite different
Middle Ages according to John Ralston incest tabus, prohibiting intercourse
Saul who says it "has come to resemble between father and daughter, mother and
the obscure and controlling scholasticism son, and brother and sister. These
of the Middle Ages." (1) prohibitions are not based on instinct or
Could it be that ethics and moral the inductive experience of the genetic
behaviour had higher importance in the consequences that sometimes result {Like
communal houses of the Kelts and North the idiots and haemophiliacs or sexual
American Indians, as well as other deviates who lead us as a result of
societies throughout this awesome world? 'noble' heritage - to war and other great
We now know it has been traversed by heroic endeavours.}. Some individuals
ancient humans who loved and played all violate them, but if so the violations do
over the place for a far longer period not result in marriage.
than we have been lead to believe even To a considerable extent these primary
though many may not be aware of these incest tabus are based on two kinds of
facts. Is it possible that basic antisocial results. Parent-child
principles were easily communicated and intercourse would disrupt the lines of
respect was the goal of people long ago? authority between generations, lines that
Why even debate the point about power and hold the family together. Brother-sister
money - they had little need of it. intercourse during adolescence would
Western society still has much of the inhibit intermarriage between families,
ingrained misogyny of millennia of macho reducing their interdependence. Were a
Mediterranean mores and the rest of the married woman to have intercourse with
world is far worse. What greater issue is her brother, it would create a state of
there than incest and family violence? It serious conflict between her husband and
rots the fabric of families and society his brother-in-law, two kinsmen by
as a whole. This quote from respected marriage who, in certain cultures, might
anthropologist Carlton Coon about the need each other's confidence and help."
'hunting societies' of prehistory sets a (3)
stage we need to appreciate and evaluate. The 'controlling scholasticism of the
"While under certain circumstances, in Middle Ages' referred to by Ralston Saul
some societies, a young man may marry a was part of the continuing effort to
woman past menopause, he may manage to destroy these real family values. The
have sexual relations with other women, marriage laws of the Kelts had to be
and may eventually get a nubile second eliminated because these laws were
wife." (2) equitable and fair to women and children.
This seems a workable arrangement that Bastards were not ever possible in Keltic
includes education and the planning of society and the idea of a single mother
families to avoid unnecessary abortion or was totally different than it is today.
mouths who aren't truly cared for, Of course, the payment of mercenaries
doesn't it? The older woman presumably including the rape and pillage which
would be able to satisfy the early sexual enabled men to gradually lose all decent
energy of the young man, without leading tabus or constructs based on the ancient
their social or tribal culture into all means of care for each other that were
the problems associated with children part of all the systems Brotherhood
having children such as often happens developed, through common sense. The
today. The young man might even develop elevation of Gods from the state of hero
some sexual techniques and understand his (mere human) to Divine Rights and
urges better than pure lustful separate from Nature, is at the root of a
infatuation or the need to run off to lot of it. Heyerdahl thinks Odin was a
fight in order to get rape and pillage Keltic king in southern Russia around the
payment for some Lord or Caesar. Then time of Christ and I find that entirely
when financially and emotionally prepared likely. When man began to say other men
for parenting he might actually do a were unable to comprehend nature and
decent job. Coon was able to observe this needed an interpreter for the collective
still exists in some Neolithic societies soul of humanity and all life, things
of the present day. When the second wife began the downward drift to the hegemony
arrived it might present some problems that often even denies man has a soul.
but in most cases the first wife would The extent of character assassination by
probably enjoy helping the new wife to academics that do not delve into the
understand her opportunities better. Yes, reasons for Caesar's propaganda or quote
I do overstate the case, I suppose, but others who did not employ due diligence
in the Keltic clandoms it was even better is as evident today as it ever was. The
than I am suggesting. people who focus on Keltic sacrifices and
Kids were a resource and source of pride trophy head customs are telling a fact
for the whole clan. In the dynamic of but not the whole truth. What is abortion
raising a child this allowed for many and capital punishment if not sacrificing
things to occur in a more mature the life of people, perhaps for a common
environment with less emotional good? Victorian prudishness developed the
blackmail. That does not lessen the 'sins and demons' fear-mongering of
aspirations parents have for their Jehovian greed even further. In fact the
children but it makes for a lot less Western Tradition has succeeded in the
vicarious pressure, as parents have to destruction of all Ancient Knowledge if
spend all their waking hours attending to you were to believe what is allowed to be
the needs of kids; who see a way to get disseminated through 'official' or
what they want by playing to the educational channels. The Temples of
unrealistic parents who have yet to learn Saphos and Mesopotamia joined all
what they need to know. There are aspects Mediterranean cultures in some form of
of North American Indians tribes that forced prostitution for women, while the
show a similar approach to child-raising. Biblical 'Devoted Ones' were sacrificed
The Stadacona Indians sent some of their when the priest or his cronies were
children with Cartier, much as the Kelts through with other obvious and disgusting
shared educational opportunities with uses of them. Often the orphans and waifs
trading partners. Aunts and uncles do the caused by the changing laws and racial
disciplining of children among the Cree. unrest and prejudice fomented in these
The extended family and communal living times, led souls to a place worse than
is very clannish and even Gibbon noted the Hell ruled by the Catholic created
there were heraldic Indian regalia that Satan. The excellent book called The
mirrored those of British heraldry. Golden Bough by Sir James Frazer gives
The Hurons and Iroquois are most like the ample evidence from credible sources
Irish or Norse Kelts in their social about burning Red Heads and women of all
structure. Crimes committed by a member classes being forced to sell their bodies
of a family or clan (tribe) are paid for and give the money to the Temple. It may
by the whole family. With this kind of have started with Abraham (and other
policing or morals bureaucracy would Ur-Story proponents with their harems)
starve for want of something to do. The and his baby-factories but it was
compassion and behaviour modification of certainly not the way of ancient Kelts
a family is better than that of the even after his time. The Indians of North
police or prisons, I think. The women of America and the natives of Hawaii are
the Iroquois were the decision makers in ample testimony of the diversity of
most cases except the daily running of a Keltic egalitarian approaches.






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