Three mythological women men fear

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Three mythological women men fear

 

 

What are men afraid of? Looking back into the mist of time and mythology reveals some striking and interesting answers.

Legends of mythological women who embody men's deep-rooted fear of female disobedience, as well as the striking myths of the immensity of female power, are more the norm than the exception. Ancient stories that reveal men's fear of women are present in almost every culture in the world.

In this story, I will introduce you to the first three women to shake the male world. Pandora, Lilith, and Eve - divine female creatures, each with a biography to be the First Woman in the Human World.

The mud woman and her distress box

Pandora, the first of the women's race, was created as a punishment. Before it was made, the earth was Paradise, inhabited by people who lived free and without difficulty, enjoying the company of the gods. But since Prometheus disobeyed Zeus and gave fire to humanity, the supreme god punishes him and his accomplices in an act of disobedience.

Pandora was a trap - magnificent on the outside and filled with insubordination on the inside. Her arrival in the world of the mortals marks the end of Paradise. Pandora could not resist her curiosity and opened the lid of her entrusted box, releasing all the sorrows, diseases and evils for humanity.

The intrigue entangled in this myth is the fact that she could not fly out of the box and only hope remained, as a consolation prize. Why did Zeus put in the box of misery and hope? Well, probably because there is no despair without hope.

The original myth of Pandora was the story of separation from innocence, the difficulties of mortal existence, and the fear of women. Myth was part of the oral tradition and was eventually recorded on a material carrier only in the 7th century BC. by poet Hesiod. Like many ancient Greek myths, this story is an integral part of faith, a sacred story based on divine power.

The woman of the rib and the apple of knowledge

In the Bible, Eve was the first woman. It was created by Adam's rib so that he would not be alone, make him company, take care of him, continue the human race and obey him.

This time there was no misery box in the Garden of Eden, but there was a fruit tree and a talking snake.

Like Pandora, Eve couldn't resist the temptation to disobey. Consequently, after eating the forbidden fruit, the end of life in Paradise comes. And Adam and Eve begin their difficult journey of being and fighting in an unprotected environment.

The "other" woman in Adam's life and the sexual revolution

Many, many years ago, when the world was young, God created Lilith, the first woman. It was created simultaneously with Adam and with the same material as him. Therefore, the two were equal in strength, intellect and origin.

Living in the Garden of Eden, Lilith also wished for sexual equality with Adam, boldly and insidiously refusing to obey him who had escaped him. Lilith was a terrifying first woman for her sexual rebellion.

By refusing to accept the missionary posture, she challenges male authority and, worse, her subsequent career as an agent of destruction.

According to legends, liberated from male power by Lilith, she becomes the embodiment of evil and masquerading as a snake seduces Eve with the apple of knowledge to prove that she is not perfect either.

In many peoples mythologies, Lilith is also portrayed as the first vampire - a beautiful woman with long reddish hair and a snake tail who feeds on the blood of her seductive men.

Although the mythological origin of Lilith is from Jewish folklore, this demonic woman also appears in the legends of the Babylonians, Greeks, Persians, Arabs, Germans and Indians.

Created during the patriarchate, the mythological accounts of these three first women express the man's fear of the independent woman.