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Date: 2010-03-09 02:14 am (UTC)As for symbolism, one possibility is that the physical break from the foreskin is a sort of foreshadowing of the crucifixion and the break between body and spirit, or something to that effect. (I'm drinking wine right now.) There's also a lot of art from the time period with focus on the baby Jesus's penis; this is at least in part because it symbolizes the human part of Christ, and the combination of the human and the divine in Jesus Christ was debated constantly in the medieval era. It was a huge, huge deal, at least among theologians, and it contributed to the Apocryphal Gospels, some stories in which deal with the natural consequences of a young child who is all-powerful (ie, lots of stories of child Jesus curse-killing kids who pissed him off).
It's down to male-dominated society's obsession with the penis, and combine that with a religion in which a major figure would have been circumcised, and you get all kinds of crazy shit.