birth, and therefore the opportunity to
continue their physical development outside
the womb. The human species has taken full
advantage of this opportunity: we are
completely helpless for months after birth,
while our brains finish growing to a size that
would be difficult to accommodate in the
womb and birth canal. In this sense, milk
helped make possible the evolution of our
large brain, and so helped make us the unusual
animals we are.
Milk and Butter: Primal Fluids
When the gods performed the sacrifice,
with the first Man as the offering, spring
was the melted butter, summer the fuel,
autumn the offering. They anointed that
Man, born at the beginning, as a sacrifice
on the straw.... From that full sacrifice
they gathered the grains of butter, and
made it into the creatures of the air, the
forest, and the village...cattle were born