Menarche

Menopause is the opposite of menarche.

The onset of menarche is influenced by many factors, including genetics and nutrition, and the age of menarche varies significantly across the world.

From a social perspective, menarche is typically considered the central event of female puberty - but menarche does not necessarily signal that ovulation has begun occurring.

How old is she? Nine? Ten? The menarche is not far off – a hint of a bosom, poor child.

The most potent and indeed dangerous of all menstrual blood was the menarche, the first day's flow of the first menstruation of a virgin girl.

Initiation is imagined, but the initiate is not the young girl in menarche, about to be wed to the moon, but a young man about to become a great hunter.