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Women in Mythology
Eve
God said to Adam …
Genesis 2:15 “Of every tree of the garden you are
free to eat; but as for the tree of knowledge of good and bad, you must not eat of it; for as soon as you eat of it, you shall die.”
Eden: Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel
Raphael: The Fall Adam & Eve
The Punishment
Genesis 3:16:“And to the woman [God] said, ‘I will
make most severe your pains in childbearing; in pain shall you bear children. Yet your urge shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.’ ”
Succubi
Succubi
Female demons who force men to have intercourse with them
Lilith
Lilith
First wife of Adam (Judaism)Refused to have sex in missionary
position; wanted equalityGoddess of the dark moonMother of succubiDemon of the night
Kidnaps/eats/kills babies; seduces (sleeping) men to propagate demon children
The Lilin
Demon children of Lilith and Samael
Lilith-John Collie
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Lady LilithDante Gabriel Rossetti
Lilith
Adopted by feminists and religious/spiritual groups as a symbol of female empowerment and equality
Pandora
Pandora
• The first woman• Created by the gods (Hephaestus in particular)
and bestowed with unique gifts from each (including curiosity)
• Given to Epimetheus as a wife• Opens the jar/box that contains all the evils of
the world (disease, death, sorrow)• When she slams to jar/box shut, hopelessness
remains trapped inside
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
John W. Waterhouse
John W. Waterhouse
This painting by Waterhouse isn’t actually a Pandora painting; it’s Psyche Opening the Golden Box; but it is so
beautiful
Unknown Artist
Unknown Artist(this is from a Russian postcard … I don't know
whether Maul is the artist or the postcard publisher)
Sculptures
Pandorasculpted by Chauncey Ives (1864)
Pandorasculpted by Chauncey Ives (1858)
Persephone
Goddess of Spring/Queen of the Underworld/
Wife of Hades
• Origin story to explain the seasons• Her mother, Demeter, is the goddess of the
harvest
• Persephone was abducted by Hades and eventually rescued by Hermes
• Because she consumed food (pomegranate seeds) in the Underworld, she was forced to return for several months each year (winter)
The Rape of Proserpina Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Persephone's Return, by Frederick Lord Leighton
Sirens
The Siren and the Fisherman, by Frederic Lord Leighton
The SirenJohn
William Waterhouse
Harpies
Harpies in the wood of the suicidesGustave Doré
Valkyries
Valkyries
• Norse mythology• Demigoddesses of death • Decide who will die in battle
The Ride of the ValkyriesWilliam T. Maud
The Fates
A Golden Thread by John Strudwick
Moirae (Greek mythology)
• Clotho: spun the thread of life
• Lachesis: measured the thread of life
• Atropos: cut the thread of life & chose the manner of a person's death
Parcae (Roman mythology)
• Nona: spun the thread of life
• Decima: measured the thread of life
• Morta: cut the thread of life & chose the manner of a person's death
Gorgons
• Stheno (Might) • Euryale (Wide Flowing Sea) • Medusa (Queen/Ruler)
Perseus slaying the Gorgon, Medusa by Cellini
Graeae
• personified the white foam of the sea• shared one eye, one ear and one
tooth • grey-haired from birth • guardians of the Gorgons
– Enyo (horror) – Deino (dread) – Pemphredo (alarm)
The Graeae by L.W. Messacar
The Furies
The Muses
Goddesses of Art & Science
Apollo and the Muses on Mount Helicon by Claude Lorrain
The Graces
The Three Graces by
Jean-Baptiste Regnault
Female Trinity/Triple Goddess