Due to its importance to life, blood is associated with a large number of beliefs. One of the most basic is the use of blood as a symbol for family relationship ; to be"related by blood" is to be related by ancestry or descendance, rather than marriage. This bears closely to bloodlines, and saying such as "blood is thicker than water" and "bad blood", as well as "Blood brother". Blood is given particular emphasis in the Jewish and Christian religions because Leviticus 17:11 says " the life of a creature is in the blood". The phrase is part of the Levitical law forbidding the drinking of blood, due to its practice in idol worship by surrounding societies. Mythic references to blood can sometimes be connected to the living-giving nature of blood, seen in such events as childbirth, as contrasted with the blood of injury or death.
By Dr Abdul Nassr Kaadan dan Dr. Mahmud Angrini
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