Guilty without guilty

     2,500 years ago, the Etruscans developed measures to combat infertility. They developed and codified these measures in the form of a text on two gold plates (the "Tablets of Pyrgi"). It explained simply, clearly, and intelligibly what a man and woman should do to conceive a child.

     To achieve success, a specific, most favorable day of the year for conception was determined and designated. On this day, an Etruscan woman received the right to "have a man." 
 More than two dozen small rooms were prepared in a special temple for couples to meet. It was located in the port city of Pyrgi. The port provided a large number of sailors, strong and healthy men.
The text listed medicinal herbs useful for such occasions, for both men and women. It described an effective massage and spiritually stimulating paraphernalia.

     No sex. The purpose of sex is pleasure, the attainment of carnal pleasure. And the golden plates of the text teach how to prepare and preserve precious male semen for conception. How to avoid premature ejaculation. How to stimulate the female body to accept this semen. Not to avoid pregnancy, but, on the contrary, to achieve it at all costs. No "sacred prostitution." Everything is extremely decent and chaste. Everything is to help a woman who desires to become a mother. And it is not her fault if her husband is infertile. And it is not her fault if wars have killed many men and she remains unmarried. And it is not her fault if she is born ugly and plain. The natural instinct of a healthy body imperatively commands any girl to become a woman and a mother. And the text on the gold names the goddesses who will help her through difficult labor and raise a child.
This text is not simply important. It is of paramount importance for any normal society. Only one circumstance hinders its popularization. It's not that Etruscan methods of combating infertility have become obsolete over thousands of years. If they have become obsolete, then only partially. The ancient method of producing children with the help of a man and a woman has not yet been abandoned. Nature itself has designated the best day of the year for conception. And it has remained the same. This Etruscan text's only "offense" is that it was written in a language understandable to a Slav without translation. And this in no way fits into the theory of the superiority of everything ancient Egyptian, Greek, or Latin over Slavic.

     A science that claims "Etruscan is illegible" is not science, but obscurantism. A science that claims Etruscan can be read in any language but Slavic is pseudoscience.
It is this brazen and cruel lie about the ancestors of the Slavs and prevents us from taking advantage of the positive insights from the rich Slavic experience.