Oct 10 2013 Fb status: Is the clitoris the source of the ankh?

OK, so I just have to get this off my chest. Go look at the clitoracy article again ... the (blue+)yellow medical illustrations ... the one on the left: now, as it turns out, what looks like a loop there is actually two lobes that wrap around ... but visually, it looks like a loop, right?

And therefore is that based-on-MRI-images form not ...

... THE ANKH?

!!!!!

Mysterious symbol of life and power, with no (previously 'discovered') clear physical inspiration, and which, transmuted from Egyptian symbology to Greek, became the symbol of Aphrodite, and then of the Roman Venus?

Feminista prose (unlike wikipedia) sometimes assigns the ankh as the uterus, with the fallopian tubes oddly in the wrong place. (This "ancients were savvy enough to notice the fallopian tubes but too dumb to draw them in the right place" assertion has always made me itch. Itch so much, that I've never looked into whether there was academic backing for the feminista adoption of the symbol, or whether we just made up the affiliation in 1972.)

WHAT A REVOLUTION, then, in modern feminista assertions/ancient power-perceptions, if the ankh is actually the clitoral organ and not the uterus!!

I am actually somewhat boggled by the potential psychological/social/spiritual/mystery-life/anthropological implications ... the two women I have verbally positted this theory to who were familiar with the modern feminist affiliation, also experienced the mind-blow this new assertion created for me .... This feels like the day I realized that most Greek/Roman mythology could be easily interpreted as fictional records of the violent disenfranchisement of women at the dawn of recorded history ... Clytaemenestra (most obviously) is ALL KINDS of un-monstrous if one considers that perhaps she was the rightful leader of her people and Agamemnon was a usurper-by-force (historically reasonable, darn those invading Hellenes).

If I happen to be right, I have to admit that I am ecstatic that the uterus would not then be held up as the center and source of a woman's power, which has always bothered me as being entirely the judgement of a physical worldview, and therefore misguided at best when applied to valuing a woman/valuing women in general ... the uterus is an outflow of what a woman is, not the initial defining force of her being, and to consider it her source of greatest magic is to misunderstand her, and to miss the point, entirely.

I am also excited to potentially have a FRIGGING REASONABLE explanation for this theoretically all-important ancient symbol. I was way more amenable to the ankh being a cross-section of a bull's vertebra (see wikipedia) than it being a carelessly-messed-up uterus drawing, but neither assertion really came with a tenable explication : P. Not that I'm an expert, but when a basic, important, and (at the time) COMMON cultural thing makes *that* little sense to an intelligent, well-learned reader ... well, then the academics have probably not yet found the right answer.

The ankh as a clitoris neatly (and powerfully) explains the feminine/sexual love association (removing the ridiculous assignment of the uterus to Venus/Aphrodite) and corresponds reasonably to the actual shape ... although I am terribly unfamiliar with Egyptian lore and these neat-and-tidy correlations might not reasonably reverse-engineer from Aphrodite to the Egyptian pantheon/mythology ...

Thoughts?