Another taboo

I was travelling by local train a few days ago, and in the midst of all the contact numbers for pimps, there was this response to all the pimp numbers penned by someone which read "javani ke liya maa bhen aur lavda kaafi hai" (All you need in your youth is your mother or sister and a dick).

Going to the other end of the spectrum, here is a verse from the vedas quoted in the puranas.

Mathara Mupathya, susara Mupatithe, Puthrartheetha.
Sagamarthi, Napathra loka, nasthee thath.
Saravam paravo vindu ha, dasmath Puthrar tham.
Matharam suransathee Rehathee

Remember these verses and recite it to people heavily into hinduism to piss them off...

Basically means that any union is holy for the sake of the child. Yeah, the logic of the Vedics was that creatng a child is such a holy business that you are allowed to do it with your sister or mother... or anyone actually.

Now incest is bad because it increases the chances of genetic diseases, because it reduced the size of the gene pool of the inbreeding community. This is about the only reason that brother-sister marriages do not exist, except in pedigree families, or families that want to remain pure blood. The ancient egyptial pharoah families indulged in incest, and inbreeding, if not incest, which is only less dangerous but is a step in the same wrong direction, is pretty common amongst Parsis in Bombay.

In Hindu mythology, brother-sister marriages border on the infinite, and were about as common as normal marriages. Pushan and Agni are perhaps the two most famous examples, no point taking any more.

The crux of the matter is that the Vedas promoted incest and did not think of it as a bad thing. Wonder like hell why they were not clever enough to figure out that the chances of disease increased with incest. The vedics were clever enough to discover a lot of things... cannot believe that ALL religions, not only Hinduism, sanctioned Incest. This is slightly scary, as although this happened a long time ago, your attitude towards yourself changes once you consider the possiblity that somewhere down the line, your ancestors had indulged in incest.

Guess the conclusion should take us back to the train.
There was a comeback to the comeback, accompanied by a sketch of a nublie girlie, were the words 'Jhava pan pramane' (fuck, but normally).