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Re: "Juanita"
m_c_004b@frank.mtsu.edu ("m_c_004b@frank.mtsu.edu")
Mon, 27 May 1996 16:39:00 -0500
On Mon, 27 May 1996, John Pastore wrote:
> On 25 May 96 at 23:14, in regard to "Juanita":
> While bodies pulled from peat bogs in Denmark are, indeed, not of the
> Dead Sea variety, I still think that the curiosity value of "Juanita"
> is her being a probable 'virgin' that had been 'sacrificed' in a New
> World culture. Despite the apparently remarkable state of
> preservation which Clinton must have thought he was alluding to, why
> is the young girl being described as a victim of a 'sacrifice'?
Not disagreeing, but - I'm pretty sure there _is_ an almost exact
Old European correlation to this, and it was treated the same way (virgin
sacrifice) - the young girl's body, (she did not die a natural death but
was evidently sacrificed) that I believe was found a few years back in
Holland. They even had contests to find a living teeneage girl who'd be the
closest in appearance to her, and used the winner to model for artists'
recreations.
The main difference seems to be _whose_ sacrifice. Since the
Dutch girl's body was, like Juanita's, a pagan sacrifice, it was
considered fair game. A "virgin" Christian martyr like Joan of Arc prob.
would (as John says) be referred to a differently (as a heroine - and
mention of her sexual status would prob. be avoided).
Carolyn
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