[lit-ideas] Adam's Lack of Umbilical Cord -- and Eve's for that matter
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 01:24:18 EDT
Geary:
"In the beginning was the Word", which suggests to me that God is female."
Well, yes; that's another problem of the Judaeo-Christian tradition that is
absent in the Loeb.
Cfr.
"Man shall leave his father and his mother" (Gen. 1, 2, 24).
This, in the context where no MOTHER was not even slightly mentioned.
So we have TWO Gaps here. One, as Geary suggests, is to ascribe FEMININE
gender (or sex) to God.
Another, which I subscribe, is to interpret the dogma alla Grecca:
In Greek Religion, God (Zeus) _was_ married (to "Hera").
So
"In the Beginning was the God"
suggests to Geary, "that God is female."
In a Greek context, this is not necessarily so, for God (Zeus) could be
referring to the Word of Hera, his wife.
For the Greeks, however, it's all slimy and dirty when it comes to the
creation of Man and Woman -- and they are not in a better position to deal
with
this matter than the Greeks. It was Prometheus, etc. There are nice pictorial
representations, and I, unlike Geary, I'm very representationalist, and
believe in a MINOTAUR if I see a precise representation of it, as J. G.
Watt's, at
the Tate.
Cheers,
JL
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