Since ancient times blood has been seen as a substance of sacredness and horror. Especially the blood that flows from woman seeing that it was shed without violence, a concept completely foreign to ancient men. It was seen as supernatural, sacred, spiritual a deity of its own right. It was believed by the Maoris, the blood was the essence of the human soul which formed within the womb. The same was said by the ancient ancient Africans, Aristotle and Pliny. It was believed by the Hindus that as the great mother creates, her blood thickened as crust and thus flesh. This was how according to the Hindus she created the cosmos and how she and mortal women is connected to one another. The ancient natives of South America believed that all came from the "blood of the moon." The same was said by those in Mesopotamia where the great Goddess Ninhursag made mankind out of clay and infused it with the blood of life and had taught all womankind her secrets, forming clay dolls and smearing them with menstrual blood as a conception charm. Similar accounts can be found in both the Christian and Islamic creation myths where all of mankind was made out of clay from the earth and moon blood. In the per-Islamic story, Allah was the Goddess who made man out of flowing blood.
       
         Even the very lives of the gods were dependent on the supernatural power of menstrual blood. In Hellas it was known as the supernatural red wine given to the gods by Hera in her virgin form known as Hebe. This was the time where all the gods recognized the Great mother for her supremacy in creationism. It was said that during those days she invited them all to bathe in her blood and drink of it in order that they would live forever. This was the secret of the god's longevity, authority and creativity. Thor for example bathed in the river of menstrual blood flowing from the giantesses in the land of enlightenment and eternal life. From this he was able to carry out his duties as the god of the people. Even Odin, the father of the gods from Norse beliefs gained supremacy by stealing and drinking from the triple cauldron in the womb of mother earth. He was not the only one to steal the life blood, according to Indian belief one known as Indra stole the ambrosia of immortality in a similar fashion. It was called the sacred fluid soma "The soul of the world" which churned within the primal sea and was drunken by priests at sacrificial ceremonies and mixed with milk as a healing charm. Menstrual blood when ingested became man's wisdom, even to the point according to the Greeks where the wisdom of man was within his blood that came from his mother.