From: HOLFELTZ@LSTC2VM.stortek.com
Subject: Re: The creation of Eve
Organization: StorageTek SW Engineering
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 20:11:21 GMT

In article <1992Aug12.114301.1@indyvax.iupui.edu>
tffreeba@indyvax.iupui.edu writes:
 
>
>I think we can look to the Great Mother/Earth Goddess for some of the
>answers to this question.
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>The Sumerians had Tiamat the dragon (a type of serpent,) the mother of
>Chaos, being defeated by the sky god and cut up into the Earth and sky.
 
This is merely describing planetoid orbits, near misses and finally
a collision of one of the moons of Marduk.  After being broken into
the asteriod belt and what is now the earth, Tiamat was no more.
 
>The Greeks had Gaia defeated in Her last attempt at primacy (the
>challenge of her son Typhoeus the dragon/serpent) by Zeus the sky god.
 
See above.  Female only because we all come from mothers, and the
natural assumption is MOTHER EARTH.
 
>There certainly are possible connections between these myths and the one
>of Adam and Eve and his primacy and her alliance with a serpent.
 
Examples?  Sources?  I must investigate before believing
 
>As to the idea of the rib being a phallic symbol:  this idea too may be
>reflected in the Greek mythos.  Some trace Aphrodite to a version of the
 
The Greek myths can be trace back to the Akkadian and earlier Sumerian
ones.  Therefore any phallic symbology is a "throw in" and can not
be given credence.
 
>Great Goddess in Asia Minor.  Her later birth myth, that has her being
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Inanna, Ishtar & a half-dozen other names for the same goddess, who rose
through the ranks by marriage, betrayal and assorted tactics.  She never
rose to more than the rank of 15, with four other females with higher
rank (25, 35, 45, 55) than she in the pantheon of Gods.  Given the Hindus
river, she wasn't satisified, but wanted the rank of the fifty-names.
 
>born from the severed genitals of Uranus, may be a wilder rendition than
>that which comes to us from the Hebrew tradition.
 
Ishtar isn't even involved during the creation of Adapa etc, and has
no relation to the A&E story.
 
>Just some thoughts.
>
>BTW there are many places on Earth with higher than background radiation
>that occur naturally and have jack to do with prehistoric nuclear conflict.
 
Undoubtly, but there are pictures of the Sinai area from 115 miles up, which
show a large burn circle.  There are descriptions of evil winds, which kill,
and match the description of radiation poisoning; there is even a recorded
sequence of what one would expect to see from a nuclear explosion--including
the palm-tree cloud, the wind, the light, shock wave.  Just how far away
is the mushroom shape and a palm-tree?  The pictures of NM in 1945, look
more like tree than a shroom!
 
Take it for what you will.
 
>Thomas Freebairn
 
PS: One thing I have noticed, is many people know lots of myth stories,
but do they know what they mean.
 
 
A poor Wayfaring Stranger [some say, a Strange One] in a strange land,
 
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