Wombling

Aith is also a Kiln, that very important cooking or preparing place, from which the figures of all the old clay-formed gods came, no less than womblings or children, inasmuch as this word springs from the Gothic "Kilthei, the womb,” […]

The inability to identify with the encompassing and potent womb of his mother leaves a male child traumatically isolated, helpless, not entirely born, or briefly born and then “killed” by envious males intent upon destroying “womblings.”