Ill not try and make this too long. Lets start with the Greek mythology. Its a lot different from the bible. Myth is created by primitive thinkers. Primitive thinkers do not see the world in the way we do. they have no science and they take everything they see at face value. For example, when a primitive thinker looks at the ocean, hears and sees the waves crashing against the shore he doesn’t see water like we do. He sees something that is alive. To him the sea, because it moves, is alive. Thats the best example of how they take things at face value. None of the myth is imagined; it is simply the interpretation of the myth maker. When it rains, a primitive thinker would come to the conclusion that it is because Zeus is physically dumping buckets of water on the earth. So if you look at the myth sounding Pandora and realize that too the primitive thinker, woman was evil and sent as a punishment and that they are only good to take care of you when your old, it shows you exactly how he saw women. Misogynistic ? yes very, but its still the way that these people viewed women.
As for the bible, i dont know as much on the subject. I just know the story its self, but i think that is like the myth in that when you read it you arnt supposed to look for the symbolic qualities. The bible is big enough that it doesn’t need to use symbolism to get its message across. If it was a short story, movie or play, then yes, you would look at it symbolically. So when i see that it was Eve who tempted Adam into eating the apple, thats what happened. The first woman convinced the first man to eat the apple, thus banishing him from the garden of Eden.
-Thom Savery
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