Havva’nin Öyküsü: Kozmolojik Ve Antropogonik Mitlerden Kadin Yaratimina Senkretik Bir Yaklaşim
Eve’s Story: A Syncretic Approach to The Creation of Woman in Cosmological and Anthropogonic Myths

Summary/Abstract: In most narrations that belong to mythological era, the traces of anthropogonic myhts explaining human creation are traced. Besides, it is seen that the first man appears parrallel to anthropogonic gods in some cosmological myths. Fertility function that is attributed to woman identity in the origin of the World and human beings, leads the creation of woman because of the fact that the main character, Adam needs a companion character. The woman which had been a sacred character in matriarchal era, was depicted as the one who broke the god’s rules therefore caused the caos and lost its priority in the communities that developed with ownership. This caused new ideological arguments that legalize slavery in denominational context. It is seen that the raw material of creation consist of soil, loam or clay in the myths of Asia Minor societies such as Egypt, Babylon, Sumerian which have turned into agricultural societies earlier than other societies. On the other hand, in the myths of other nations which was less effected by the conditions seen in agricutural societies, there is nearly no inequality between men and women and no gender discrimination is observed. Moreover there is “animal-ancestor”,”light from the sky”, “cosmic tree” in the origin of the creation in these societies. In this study, the first woman, symbolized as Eve examined comparing the myths of several cultures, in order to support the attempts of placing her in mythological knowledge.

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