Psychoanalytical notes on the origin of money
Psychoanalytical notes on the origin of money In the ancient world, many units of measurement were based, approximately, on some parts of the human body: arm, cubit, span, inch, foot; or on their…
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Psychoanalytical notes on the origin of money
In the ancient world, many units of measurement were based, approximately, on some parts of the human body: arm, cubit, span, inch, foot; or on their functions: pace, half hour, league.... And I identified, albeit with wide variations, these parts in the foreskin which Abraham/Hammurabi cuts off as a symbol of a new faith, reviving -I cannot say how consciously - an ancient, now forgotten tradition which stands at the base of that antique unit of measurement with an abstract value and the form of a Ring to be worn as a bracelet or anklet on or in one's own body (eg. I wondered if there might be some parts of the body, which weighed 4.25g: in other words, half a siqlum or half a giĝ.
These rings would therefore have had a weight and a composition of precious nose rings, called nezem in Hebrew, and still in use as ornaments in many populations, in India for example; and earrings).