So…can I prove that hamantaschen are contemporary sacred vulva cakes? No. But it certainly makes academic and gut sense to me: that parthenogenetic (self-fertilizing) hamantaschen—pubic triangles traditionally filled with black seeds—are pre-spring, full-moon fertility cookies, suggesting the potency of female generative power, and heralding women’s and the Earth’s seasonally awakening creativity.
Therefore . . . roll ’em, fill ’em, bake ’em, eat ’em, send ’em to friends, eat your friends’, let them eat yours, feed ’em to your husband. On the full moon of Adar, the hamantasch. God willing, should not be mistaken for a mere cookie or for Haman’s tricorn hat.
Susan Schnur, “From Prehistoric Cave Art to Your Cookie Pan: Tracing the Hamantasch Herstory”, Lilith (Spring 1998), 24.