GASA02H3 Lecture Notes - Reed Boat, Dharma, Japanese Mythology
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Global asia studies lecture 2: cadbury commercial what were the south asian advertisement trying to portray, readings this week focus on how the embryo is created or rather formed. Argues that there are three forces within the body: wind, bile, and phlegm. Provide support for balance with each other, harming body when it is out of balance. These such harms that can bring in ayurveda are termed dosas or faults. Early indian embryology was quite aware that the fetus develops over time. There is this notion that when we are in the woman"s womb we a perfectly balanced, but as we are given birth to we become unbalanced individuals. It is quoted that the male child is to be prayed for this depicts a gender bias in preference of child birth or embryology. There is also the idea of ojos which is the notion that if the child is born at the wrong time it will end up dying.
