Thank you for your enjoyable articles.
Could it be that כתם in Akkadian... means to cover, to hide, to keep secret (Arabic), then at some stage, people were embarassed by the signs of niddah and referred to the color of the (menstruation) blood as that to be kept 'secret"?
Minor point - shouldn't that be 'k'tumim' rather than 'ketomim'? (similarly, adumim, yerukim, k'xulim, v'rudim, etc.) - simple plural of the pa'ol adjective, if I'm not mistaken.
Kevin - Interesting theory - make sense.
Nominally Challenged - Yeah, I think you're right. Google certainly has far more hits for ketumim than for ketomim.
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