Picture shape guide to vagina shapes12/23/2023 ![]() ![]() Let’s rewind a bit, or rather, two centuries prior to the Poppy Pockets craze (yes, that is a Polly Pockets reference no, I am not sorry). Just a century later (time flies!) the triangular poppyseed-filled pastry became so popular on Purim that the rabbis just had to find any sort of rabbinical significance, so they absolutely just made shit up. I like to imagine the baked good resulted in the same chaotic energy that the cronut sparked, except that mahn taschen have actually survived the test of the time. Portrayed as an often pregnant voluptuous woman with cleavage up the wazoo, I argue that these Ishtar-shaped fertility cakes are what preceded mahn (poppy) taschen (pocket), later to be known as hamantaschen.Ī modernized version of Isthar’s fertility cakes arose in 18th century Europe when German bakers popularized their newest invention: the mahn taschen. Don’t believe me? As much as the ancient rabbis attempted to erase Ishtar from history, in Jeremiah 44:19, it’s written (I am channeling such Saturday morning rabbi sermon vibes right now) that after Jeremiah the Prophet confronted the nation about their worship to idols, the women retorted: Do you suppose that we were burning incense and pouring out liquid offering to the Queen of Heaven, and making cakes marked with her image, without our husbands knowing it and helping us? Of course not! To boot, ancient artifacts of the molds that baked said “cakes marked with her image” have been discovered in Mari, Syria. Though another rabbi, Rabbi Jehoshua, argued that Esther was her true name, and the name Hadassah/Myrtle came about “because of the greenish colour of her face.” Notably, green is a color associated with fertility, and thus, Ishtar.īefore the Israelites became a monotheistic nation, Jewish women actually worshipped Ishtar for protection, food, and healthy children, baking small cakes in her image and drinking wine to celebrate her deity. Yahuda writes that Rabbi Nehemia believed Esther’s true name to be Hadassah, but that non-Jews referred to her as Esther after the “star-Venus” (along with the lion, the star was one of Ishtar’s symbols because of her association with Venus, the Roman goddess of love and fertility). ![]() The link between the Purim story and Babylonian myth is contested, but intriguing: In “The Meaning of the Name Esther,” author A. Scholars have made the case that Queen Esther is the personification of Ishtar, and her uncle Mordecai is associated with Marduk, the god of war. ![]() So where does Esther come from? Oh, none other than Ishtar, the Babylonian goddess of sex, war, justice, and fertility. Nu? How in the heck did a symbol for, as Ilana Glazer describes it, a “delicious, juicy” vagina, get warped into one for Haman (boo!)? We’ve now reached the historical background section of this TED talk, hooray!Īfter finding this gem from a 1998 issue of Lilith about the “herstory” of hamantaschen, I went down my own little historical rabbit hole and here’s what I found. In Megillat Esther (the Book of Esther), the Jewish queen’s real Hebrew name is revealed to be Hadassah, which means myrtle in English. (Note: Vagina is used colloquially, “vulva” is the more anatomically correct terminology.) Rather, they were meant to be a symbol of what the cookies obviously looks like: a vagina. But the most messed up part about this offensive symbolic treat? Apparently, Hamantaschen were never supposed to represent Haman’s (boo!) ears or hat at all. ![]()
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