Those are your words.....Ancient cultures worshipped those cycles as cycles of fertility & life....only developing Christian culture formed it into something "disgusting" and thus the creation of the Red Tent.....
"To understand women's unique connection to the moon, we need to look back to ancient times and ancient ways. The moon has always been associated with the creation cycle in nature, its four phases (new, waxing, full, and waning) reflecting the cycles of life (birth, growth, maturity, and death) -- or, in agricultural terms, seeding, growth, harvest, winter rest. The moon's phases also reflect the creation cycle as it moves through a woman's body in the monthly readying, filling, and emptying of the uterus. A woman's menstrual cycle is often referred to as her moon cycle because most women tend to regulate to a monthly lunation cycle of twenty-eight to thirty days, with the days of ovulation and menstruation falling at about the full and new moons.
For many ancient civilizations, the moon symbolized the daughter of creation, daughter of the Mother Earth, or the Goddess of Creation herself. Many believed that the dead lived on the moon. The effects of the cycles of the moon on the body and on nature were recognized in the symbol of the Triple Goddess, the Goddess in Triad: Maiden, Matron, and Crone -- new moon, full moon, waning moon."
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The Hittites of Asia Minor in the 2nd millennium B.C.E. left evidence of women's connection to the moon.
Mythological texts as well as birth rituals count the months of a woman's pregnancy based on the appearances of the moon, with birthing expected in the tenth month from the last moon rising before the cessation of the menses. The derivation of "to be pregnant" and "month" from the Hittite root arma is identical in form to the name for the Anatolian Moon Goddess Armas.
The story of the Maenads gives us the clue that they were probably dancing outdoor full moon rituals, open-air exposure to the moon being the most efficient way to be in synchrony with the moon's phases. In Euripides' day and indeed down into the 2nd century C.E., ritual mountain dances performed at night by women could be seen in Delphi and elsewhere. The Roman writer Ovid spoke of the members of Cybele's chorus's "Bacchanal strains under the dark of the Moon."
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