Religious restrictions on the consumption of pork
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Religious restrictions on the consumption of pork
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Pork is a food taboo among Jews, Muslims, and some Christian denominations. Swine were prohibited in ancient Syria and Phoenicia, and the pig and its flesh represented a taboo observed, Strabo noted, at Comana in Pontus. A lost poem of Hermesianax, reported centuries later by the traveller Pausanias, reported an etiological myth of Attis destroyed by a supernatural boar to account for the fact that "in consequence of these events the Galatians who inhabit Pessinous do not touch pork". In Abraham
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Restrictions on the consumption of pork for religious reasons
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_restrictions_on_the_consumption_of_pork
date created:
2005-11-24T02:41:04Z
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2024-09-06T13:51:10Z
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