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Clivedurdle · 07-09-2013, 03:03 AM

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Because of this a man shall leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife

Both in Genesis and Gospels!

It is one of the ways to decide if an animal is clean to eat.

Homer thought it was very important

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Once the men had prayed and flung the barley first they lifted back the heads of the victims , slit their throats, skinned them and carved away the meat from the thigh bones and wrapped them in fat, a double fold sliced clean and topped with strips of flesh, and they burned these on a cleft stick, peeled and dry, spitted the vitals, held them over Hephaestus' flames and once they'd charred the thighs and tasted the organs they cut the rest into pieces, pierced them with spits, roasted them to a turn and pulled them off the fire . The work done, the feast laid out they ate well and no man's hunger lacked a share of the banquet. When they had put aside their desire for food and drink, Nestor the old horseman spoke out first....

A very interesting site notes it is used a huge amount in the Bible.

http://biblethesaurus.org/c/clefts.htm

I think we are looking at early science here - what happens when you divide and put together stuff. Yes things go badly wrong for example with the story about stripes and spots and sheep and goats, and fascinating magical rituals develop around these experiments.

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