A major theme in the poetry and prose of his story is that the ancient fertility-culture had some ideals very different from the ones introduced by the religions of the Middle Ages. One common heathen tradition was that of drinking the "divine vine" or the "water of wisdom", which literally refers to the male sperm and the female sap (ejaculate). According to the saga the pagan traditions were based on a naturalistic philosophy, where it was regarded a virtue to "save and not spill ones semen or female ejaculate". This could be done by sharing the liquids in a "69" or by
practicing autofellatio - which the family-saga names sauna-solmu. The Finnish expression for this "sacred vines" would be Viisauden Vesi--the water of wisdom, which in other traditions are known under cryptic terms such as "The Water of Life", "The Seeds of Life", "The Nectar of The Gods" or "The Elixir of the Blessed".
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the men would learn how to "curl up" in a "sauna-knot" and drink directly from their "clubs", the women would normally ingest their mahla, female ejaculation, with a straw. According to the Bock Saga this used to be a collective tradition amongst men and women, where
"heart-friends" (of the same sex) would share each others liquids as a special favor and sacrament, to enhance their respective fertility and vitalize their neurologic energy. The saga claims that within the heathen cultures this recycling of sperm and sap was
obligatory at the age of 7, when it was combined with yoga exercises.
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