DID GOD KILL HIS WIFE?

Wherever you look in the ancient world, you find female deities, a holiness attributed to the mother God.

This makes evolutionary sense since even looking at lifespans of humans, women tend to live longer than men, even way past the reproductive outputs, since nature wants grandmothers, grandmothers are experienced and used to give life themselves, therefore could help the next generations in bringing up the offsprings, from birth to taking care of them.

The existence of menopause and the fact that women live longer than menopause itself, is quite amazing when you think about it in the context of evolution, since from a biological standpoint, an organism is there to maximize the potential of reproduction, so the fact that women do in fact live longer than menopause, proves that evolutionarily they have much more of an impact historically on human development, since even the non-reproductive ones contribute to the growth of humanity.

But why every religion today, seems to have a male deity as opposed to a female deity?

In the Old Testament, God creates a non-birth giving creature in Adam, then gives birth to the birth-giving creature, Eve, by taking out his ribs – This creates Eve in the framework of a man, as opposed to both YAHWH and Adam being created in the image of a woman that gave birth to them.

This idea is not limited to Christianity and Judaism, in Islam, Allah is a creature with no wives, no children, no parents, however Eve is not made from Adam, Eve herself is an equal partner to Adam since their creation originates from the same nature.

In Zoroastrian tradition, a being called Gayomart is created from the primordial Earth, Gayomart is sort of a mythical being which after his death, a couple is born, Mashya and Mashyana, neither one is created from the other, unlike the traditions in Abrahamic religions.

However, where does YAHWH or Allah come from?

Looking back at ancient Mesopotamian and Semitic religions, all hold a female deity named Asherah (El-lat) to a high regard, this is evidential from many sacrificial temples found in Jerusalem and Judea, where there is two altars, for sacrifices to two Gods, one YHWH and one Asherah, the female counterpart to YHWH.

Even inscriptions in Aramaic and Hebrew, talking about YHWH and “his” Asherah.

In Canaanite religions, the God El and Asherah are also a couple, one is the God of war and masculinity, and the other is the God of birth, fertility and life.

In pre-Islamic traditions of Arabia, El-Lat or Al-lat, is a female counterpart to earlier versions of Allah, specifically in the regions of modern-day Yemen and southern parts of the Persian Gulf, Al-lat was a female deity that follows similar mythology to all the other pan-semitic traditions.

El is the patriarch and Asherah is the divine mother.

Her motherhood is associated with divinity, she is the mother of the 70 sons, the Gods of pagan Arabia and Judea.

In the Canaanite pantheon of Baal cycle, Baal sets out to build his castle after defeating the sea God Yum, Baal goes to El for permission to build his castle, and he is met with refusal, then Baal goes to Asherah, with gifts of gold and silver, for her to grant permission, suggesting a dual theistic equality between El and Asherah, Asherah in this story is at first hesitant, since she believes Baal will slay her children (the Gods) however she grants it afterwards.

Female deities in Abrahamic traditions, just like other practices, are kingmakers, mothers of the divine, by giving birth to the divine, they are set higher as the other patriarchal figures such as Baal and El.

Most of the Abrahamic mythologies, where written in a future of those traditions, meaning that the oldest stories accounted for the Tanakh, come from a time that the Israelites where enslaved in Babylon far away from their home, and many of these traditions reflected a post-bronze age tradition of creating male deities as Patriarchy was on the rise.

For instance, the creation story in the bible, appears in several places, all coming from a Creatio ex Nihilo philosophy, where YHWH creates the world by giving birth to it out of nothing.

In many places such as Psalms and the book of Jobe, YHWH talks about his fight with a female sea serpent, Leviathan, where he defeats and tames her, this story is also found in Mesopotamian traditions where Marduk also defeats and tames a feminine sea creature.

In many of these older traditions, femininity is associated with wildness and needing to be tamed, where as masculinity is set to rule over it, which reflects an old trope in patriarchal societies where after the agricultural revolution and many aristocratic societies femininity was something to be owned and protected by the masculine.

However, why?This is because the nobles and the monarchs of ancient times, loved to fold tradition and religions into their own image, to give themselves a sort of holy blood and being descendants from the Gods.

This noble blood cannot be transferred to next generations, without a female counterpart, meaning that in the image of ancient monarchs and nobles, women were only subjects to transfer this holiness that came from a father-God to the next generation, boycotting and deleting any mythology involving femininity.

In these pre-Abrahamic traditions, tree, the fruit-bearer in nature, the symbol of wisdom and ancient life, is associated with the Goddess Asherah – Even in the bible, the mentions of objects called “Asherah” are used as being some sort of symbols of the female divine, and the verbs associated with Asherah, are also usually associated with trees.

Even in depictions of El and Baal, they carry trees, a possible reference to the mother Goddess.

As Patriarchal societies developed, femininity became something outcasted, something associated with unholiness, it is Eve who eats the forbidden fruit as opposed to being a servant to Adam.

Eve is not created as an equal, but as a companion to Adam, making her existence and women in general, a complimentary to the existence of Manhood as opposed to something independent.

Additionally in all Abrahamic traditions, a good woman, is a figure that is obedient to her male counterparts – Her education and autonomy is destructive, as world is set to be ruled by strong men.

This mythologization of Patriarchy, was then used throughout the world to encapsulate femininity as soon as possible, having child-marriage in many ancient traditions, and a very strong emphasis on female obedience toward the husband, a slave-master relationship that was created to make sure that women and men are separated from a class point of view as well as biological point of view.

However, this is far from how our ancestors lived, the trope of hunters and gatherers being solely men, while women stayed in the cave sometimes just doing gathering of fruits and seeds, is another myth that scientists found examples in contradiction to.

Women hunted alongside men, the same way men helped women with raising of children and protecting the household so both individuals could grow simultaneously.

To conclude, at some point the writers of the religions, mainly the patriarchal monarchs, wrote women out of history, giving birth to femininity from an entity that cannot give birth, making women a dependent individual to the man, being literally formed from his ribcage to control their power and control the literal humans who could give birth.

This could have been the earliest examples of Psyops being deployed among humans in history.