Among the Navajo Indians of the Southwest, it\’s customary to bury a child\’s placenta within the sacred Four Corners of the tribe\’s reservation as a binder to ancestral land and people. New Zealand\’s Maoris have the same tradition of burying the placenta within native soil. In their native language, the word for land and placenta are the same: whenua.
The indigenous Bolivian Aymara and Quecha people believe the placenta has its own spirit. It is to be washed and buried by the husband in a secret and shady place. If this ritual is not performed correctly, they believe, the mother or baby may become very sick or even die.
My sister was also asked if she wanted take a bite out of her son\’s placenta when she gave birth at a birthing center
Among the Navajo Indians of the Southwest, it\’s customary to bury a child\’s placenta within the sacred Four Corners of the tribe\’s reservation as a binder to ancestral land and people. New Zealand\’s Maoris have the same tradition of burying the placenta within native soil. In their native language, the word for land and placenta are the same: whenua.
The indigenous Bolivian Aymara and Quecha people believe the placenta has its own spirit. It is to be washed and buried by the husband in a secret and shady place. If this ritual is not performed correctly, they believe, the mother or baby may become very sick or even die.
My sister was also asked if she wanted take a bite out of her son\’s placenta when she gave birth at a birthing center