When God was a Woman

Merlin Stone sheds light on the mysterious creation account of Genesis. Lights are going on all over the place.

The OT is obsessed with the Children of Israel and their continual going back to idols. Especially the Ashtoreth.
Who was the Ashtoreth? The Goddess.


7 Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
Man is created first. The Goddess myths had man and woman created at the same time.

8 Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed.
There was a paradise.

16 And the Lord God commanded the man, "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die."
The tree is there against God's wishes. It is pre-existant. The tree is referring to something they knew. The tree IS the Ashtoreh. The Goddess symbol and rite. The story is a warning against the Ashtorah something evil, which YHWH just created?

18 The Lord God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him."
Woman's natural role is to help/serve man.

22 Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
Woman is made from an insignificant part of man.

25 The man and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.
The first mention of their bodies is associated with shamefulness.

The myth of Adam and Eve, in which male domination was explained and justified, informed women and men alike that male ownership and control of submissively obedient women was to be regarded as the divine and natural state of the human species.

But in order to achieve their position, the priests of the male deity had been forced to convince themselves and to try to convince their congregations that sex, the very means of procreating new life, was immoral, the "original sin." Thus, in the attempt to institute a male kinship system, Judaism, and following it Christianity, developed as religions that regarded the process of conception as somewhat shameful or sinful.

The picture takes form before us, each tiny piece falling into place. Without virginity for the unmarried female and strict sexual restraints unmarried women, male ownership of name and property and male control of the divine right to the throne could not exist.

According to the Bible story, the forbidden fruit caused the couple's conscious comprehension of sexuality. Upon eating the fruit, Adam and Eve became aware of the sexual nature of their own bodies, "And they knew that they were naked." So it was that when the male deity found them, they had modestly covered their genitals with aprons of fig leaves.

by eating the fruit first, woman possessed sexual consciousness before man and in turn tempted man to partake of the forbidden fruit, that is, to join her sinfully in sexual pleasures.

The Hebrew creation myth, which blamed the female of the species for initial sexual consciousness in order to suppress the worship of the Queen of Heaven, her sacred women and matrilineal customs, from that time on assigned to women the role of sexual temptress. It cast her as the cunning and contriving arouser of the physical desires of men, she who offers the appealing but dangerous fruit. In the male religions, sexual drive was not to be regarded as the natural biological desires of women and men that encouraged the species to reproduce itself but was to be viewed as woman's fault.

Not only was the blame for having eaten the fruit of sexuality, and for tempting Adam to do the same, laid heavily upon women, but the proof or admission of her guilt was supposedly made evident in the pain of childbirth, which women were assured was their eternal chastisement for teaching men such bad habits. Eve was to be severely punished as the male deity decreed: "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children, yet your desire shall be for your husband and he shall rule over you."