Role Of The Feminine In Ancient Creation Myth
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...deities, and women in general, is to provide a sense of conflict, which serves to both heighten the drama of the story as well as provide a rationale that justifies the societal status quo of male domination. This pattern is evident in three ancient creation myths, “Enuma Elish” (ancient Babylonian epic), Hesiod’s “Theogony,” and Book of Genesis (ancient Hebrew).
In both “Enuma Elish” and Hesiod’s creation saga, the feminine principle emerges as one of the first and most primal deities and refers to the Earth itself as a primeval goddess. In the Babylonian epic, this is “Tiamat, who bore them all,” meaning the gods and all of nature (“Enuma Elish” 34). In introducing the Greek version of the origin of the gods and the Earth, Hesiod first calls upon the “daughters of Zeus” to give him inspiration, which is indicative of how the feminine is associated with creativity. He relates how “Ouranos and Gaia (Heaven and Earth) bore three sons,” which were...
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