From: tffreeba@indyvax.iupui.edu
Subject: Re: The creation of Eve
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 03:58:22 GMT

In article <16841C78E.HOLFELTZ@LSTC2VM.stortek.com>, HOLFELTZ@LSTC2VM.stortek.com writes:

>>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.

(Sigh... I have to ask.)  What's a Marduk?  And how does this "discribe"
planetoid orbits?
  
>>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.>

I see above and I see this.  What does it have to do with the sentence in
question?
  
>>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

No examples except the ones given.  No sources except my mind.  As stated
just some thoughts.
  
>>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.

Give definition of "throw in" and explain why credence can not be given.
  
>>Great Goddess in Asia Minor.  Her later birth myth, that has her being
>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 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.

Sources?  

>>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.

Huh?  

>>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. 

Where can these pictures be found and who says it is a _burn_ feature. 
Define burn feature and how it manifests itself in a photo from 115 mi. up.
  
  
> PS: One thing I have noticed, is many people know lots of myth stories,
> but do they know what they mean.

Again, give us the sources of your knowlege.  

>  
> A poor Wayfaring Stranger [some say, a Strange One] in a strange land,
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