How’s “vesica”? As in vesica piscis but without the weirdness of fish. Plus it has the lovely vvvvvvvvvv-ness at the front.
Yes, yes, there is “mandorla” but we use “aureola” for other girl-parts. IMO it’s the same thing. Almonds. Good for eye shapes and on top of yogurt. But unless there is a Yoni Puja going on . . . (*nods to Lady I.*)
And since you now know how my brain works (i.e. “cold” = winter-snowpants-eiderdown =”duck”), you know that I go from “aureola” straight on to “beer.” (Via “Corona,” I’m sure. – – – Which then takes me to “Father Brenner” via “nimbus.” And I need to stop thinking now.)
And, soooo? So what, it translates as bladder? No worse than sheath, right? After three live births, I can live with that.
Bladder. Yup. Ask the trampoline. (Ooh, TMI?)
Think about it. It’s definitely Western. It speaks to that sense of multiplicity and complexity that I was looking for. It has all of the concepts of divinity that The Bad Witch needs with just a hint of the mathematics that gets The Bad Witch off.
(OK, so a slathering of math. TBW is a whore for math. Especially really effing complex and/or theoretical math. And $35 Zinfandel, apparently.)
I love to play the flower-of-life shaped game (DaVinci’s Challenge) with my son – –
and now that I think about it, I will stop.
I still think the universe is shaped like Villarceau circles, or a kinda-lika-soccer-ball married to a Möbius strip.
And who doesn’t love doughnuts??
And we still use a set of Reuleaux polygons to make a triquetra. Right?
(Ferreal, right? That’s not rhetorical. I failed Algebra and had to go to summer school with Julie Corvette who wanted to beat me up after school every day for some reason. Ergo – – – Geometry? Aside from having a serious crush on Mr. ButIwonttellyouhisname? I was both hot for teacher and hot for geometry. There was a math I could cuddle up to. However, I only remember terms, not always their application. All else I learn from topdocumentaryfilms.com.)
Look! No footnotes! Just drunken paragraphs!
You guys have been great sports. Thanks!
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I like vesica for the same reasons you do. I missed how we rejected vulva, though. It’s accurate, and it’s like the Scandanavian word for witch!
Volva, vulva. Yes. While we take it from the Latin homophone (the literal definition of volva in Latin is “wrapper”), it is neat that völva – while pronounced ever slightly differently – is near enough. For me, the coolest part is that the literal definition is related to wands – in Western traditions this has become oh, so phallic. But, using my Teutonic tradition, I aim to reclaim. You are beating me to the punchline of my current article.
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