question about priestesses & blood sacrifice

[SunflowerP]

Found it: http://omaxi.tigblog.org/post/4362029

 
And (to provide this thread with further citation, since there hasn't been anything at all like a proper cite so far), it is by Alice C. Linsley, and can also be found as a post on her own blog, which appears to be its original publication - that is, it's a blog post, not a scholarly article.

Sunflower

[EclecticWheel]

Man, I wish I knew how to find some of Koi's lectures about portrayals of Jesus as having breasts, which was apparently the Done Thing in at least some portions of Christianity for a while because the Incarnation wasn't supposed to be about gender....

 
That's interesting.  I didn't know that, although I've noticed in stained glass windows in churches the image of Jesus as a mother pelican piercing her breast and feeding her children with her blood, and I've seen icons of the Virgin Mary (online) depicted as a priest, although the Catholic Church banned their use at some point.