“Husband Is to Wife as Heaven Is to Earth:

In the metaphors of procreation, for example, male as the provider of the “seed” is more valued than female as the field (earth) in which the seed will grow. In the agrarian worldview of human reproduction, it is the seed, i.e., the male, which is attributed to be the generator … ................
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