HUMANS OVERVIEW
Pelvic Architecture and the Mythos of Wisdom
In this cross-species anatomical comparison, garbotalk and reptiliandude discuss the biological origins of painful childbirth, debunking traditional religious interpretations in favor of evolutionary mechanics. Reptiliandude explains that human suffering during labor is a direct consequence of bipedalism; while his species also experiences painful births, their unique hip structure—optimized for “leaping, climbing, and running on all fours”—provides a slightly easier transition than the human pelvis. The conversation shifts to the “Tree of Knowledge” archetype found in the mythologies of both humans and the Naigaje, which reptiliandude interprets as a universal metaphor for the transition from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle to a sedentary, agricultural existence. He suggests that these shared stories are not mere coincidences but represent a fundamental shift in consciousness and societal structure across different sentient races.
HUMANS OVERVIEW
Pelvic Architecture and the Mythos of Wisdom
In this cross-species anatomical comparison, garbotalk and reptiliandude discuss the biological origins of painful childbirth, debunking traditional religious interpretations in favor of evolutionary mechanics. Reptiliandude explains that human suffering during labor is a direct consequence of bipedalism; while his species also experiences painful births, their unique hip structure—optimized for “leaping, climbing, and running on all fours”—provides a slightly easier transition than the human pelvis. The conversation shifts to the “Tree of Knowledge” archetype found in the mythologies of both humans and the Naigaje, which reptiliandude interprets as a universal metaphor for the transition from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle to a sedentary, agricultural existence. He suggests that these shared stories are not mere coincidences but represent a fundamental shift in consciousness and societal structure across different sentient races.
Image: Peter Paul Rubens – Adam and Eve, after Titian, between 1628 and 1629 (Photo by Peter Paul Rubens via Wikimedia Commons)
Source: RD (via GT), "Put your questions here so Reptiliandude can find them!" r/reptiliandude, Reddit, (28 June 2017) https://www.reddit.com/r/reptiliandude/comments/6jvn4t/put_your_questions_here_so_reptiliandude_can_find/
Garbotalk: Is the sabotage to our genome the reason labor and delivery is so painful for women? I imagine our heads are bigger than they would have been in comparison to our pelvises. I don’t believe apes suffer like human women do. Or is this suffering a fact of many advanced species?
Reptiliandude: Unfortunately, it’s a result of your species being able to walk upright.
The head plays its part in this, but it’s really more the hip structure makes the birth painful.
Garbotalk: So your species, others, all have difficulty like we do?
Reptiliandude: Well, our hips are a bit different.
Unlike your species, we often run on all fours for a bit to get up to a proper alignment for a high jump.
Our hands are a bit different than yours so we can really dig in for a leap and a climb.
We often scale the outside of your older buildings and leap across rather than to take the stairs.
Large trees are where we hang out when we are surveying areas and watching people.
As for childbirth…
It’s painful for our females to give birth but not as bad as yours.
Again, it’s the hips thing…
Garbotalk: Yeah, that whole Genesis blaming Eve for giving the apple to Adam as the reason for difficult childbirth for all women always seemed fishy to me!
Reptiliandude: Well, don’t throw the baby out with the bath water.
We have a similar mythos with a tree and whatnot.
Even C has such a mythos but the ‘man and woman’ gave the fruit to as many creatures as they could, while not eating it themselves till those who had become wise entreated the Lord to grant them the right to partake of wisdom as well.
These are metaphors for things and there is more than a coincidence that they have a common thread.
While not all creation stories align like these, many do and involve a tree of knowledge.
We think it means leaving a hunter gatherer stage and settling down to an agricultural and herdsman existence.
