Notes on Monkey Bread

I have started the serious work on my latest book, Monkey Bread. This one is a continuation of the simian mythology of Sako Ma: A Look at the Sacred Monkey Totem. I came across so much mythology especially around food. I wondered how much of this angle on simian totemic legends contains enough for another book. I did some more research and found some incredible things. I wanted to make this book a cookbook, a mythological cookbook. I think it goes well with the theme on food and consumption. Totemism among animist (native belief systems) is actually a regulation of human consumption via customs and rituals. This includes all desires for food, flesh, and sex. Totemism protects the blood-line and puts a freeze literarily on human emotions like jealousy, greed and lust, especially within the group. This book's focus is primarily food, eating food and cooking food. This book is really fun because I will have to devise recipes. I may try to put in some art and or digital images of food, but I haven't got to that part yet. Images of cooked dishes sales books really well. The subject matter, however is so rich and unique it may do well without it. Some people wonder why I am covering this subject. Most books on animal totemism or animal magic don't really do the animals justice in covering them. I learned this after covering this subject which could fill a book of 400 pages with details, layouts and more. There is no book on the market that covers one animal in the depth that these two books have. I also discovered it to be an old archetype still strong today. Animal types are archetypes, maybe smaller ones but important ones. Its like the system of the chakras. Most people know there are seven major chakras but no one knows there are many smaller ones that extend from that central system. The book on simian mythology is similar in that its one aspect of a more complex system. This subject is also very important aspect of dark Mother mythology and culture too.