Le sang: mythes, tabous et religion.

Abstract

Man, “The only animal that knows it is going to die,” quickly perceived that an essential element for its survival was a strange red, warm and creamy fluid that flowed from the wounded body. Blood is indispensable to life. Such an observation, probably as old as humanity, is not enough on its own to explain the place that blood, a strange liquid tissue, has taken in the lives of men, invading language, thought, whether societal, philosophical or religious, the imagination, but also the everyday. These are the different themes, as varied as they are surprising, that will be addressed during this odyssey on the scarlet waves.