Second, to try to contain the imperialistic nature of spiritual and erotic energy, they placed around desire a lot of taboos, prohibitions, and strict laws. At its most basic level, long before any taboos and prohibitions were ever named and codified, the idea here was simply that, as a human being, you were meant to genuflect before a God, that is, to bow beneath and put your will beneath the holiness and will of God.
