Ancient Greek Religion has more wisdom regarding women than anything the bible offers. Christians talk about the Garden of Eden and Fruit as if it's profound but the Greeks had Pandora.
Prometheus has stolen the gift of fire, and has given it to the humans. Zeus is angry about this and decides to punish men, as a compensation for the gift. He commands Hephaestus to make the first woman from earth. This woman is described as a "beautiful evil" whose descendants would torment the race of men.
From her is the race of women and female kind:
of her is the deadly race and tribe of women who
live amongst mortal men to their great trouble,
no helpmates in hateful poverty, but only in wealth.
Finally, Hermes gives this woman a name: Pandora – "All-gifted" – "because all the Olympians gave her a gift" (81).[6] The story is written in such a way that Pandora's feminine and deceitful nature is a small problem for mankind, because she brings a pithos. This word is usually translated as jar, sometimes as a box.[7][8] The box contains "burdensome toil and sickness that brings death to men" (91–2), diseases (102) and "a myriad other pains" (100).
Prometheus had warned his brother Epimetheus not to accept any gifts from Zeus. But Epimetheus did not listen; he accepted Pandora, who promptly scattered the contents of her jar. As a result, Hesiod tells us, "the earth and sea are full of evils" (101). One item, however, did not escape the jar (96–9), hope:
Only Hope was left within her unbreakable house,
she remained under the lip of the jar, and did not
fly away. Before [she could], Pandora replaced the
lid of the jar. This was the will of aegis-bearing
Zeus the Cloudgatherer.
And people try to pretend the nature of women is pure and it's modern feminism that ruined women. Women are the same as they always have been, it's just in the past men used their superior strength to keep women inline and now the government throws you in prison if you try to do this.
Ancient Greek Religion has more wisdom regarding women than anything the bible offers. Christians talk about the Garden of Eden and Fruit as if it's profound but the Greeks had Pandora.
And people try to pretend the nature of women is pure and it's modern feminism that ruined women. Women are the same as they always have been, it's just in the past men used their superior strength to keep women inline and now the government throws you in prison if you try to do this.