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Enki and Ninhursag https://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcsl.cgi?text=t.1.1.1&charenc=j

Enki, Sumerian god of water and knowledge, goes around distributing his semen to various goddesses for generations, and attempts to get busy with one who happens to be his great granddaughter, Uttu, after posing as a gardener. Ninhursag, the mother goddess of mountains, says no and takes out the semen from wherever he splashed it, then plants it in the ground. Various fruits, trees, vegetable, grass, plants grow from the place she planted it, and Enki eats them - to know what they are and determine their destiny because that's what he does as the god of knowledge. No kinkshaming.

Shortly after, Enki feels pain all over his body. Ninhursag asks where it hurts, and it turns out the pain comes from the plants and basically the semen is spreading inside his body. The top of his head hurt, Ninhursag removes the source of the pain which gives birth to a god of vegetation; a lock of hair, his nose, his mouth, throat, arm... give birth to multiple goddesses like Ninkasi goddess of beer, Nanshe goddess of the sea.

And then his rib hurts, and Ninhursag gives birth to Ninti out of it. Ninti translates to lady of life / lady who gives life, but it's believed that this part is a play on words that would mean lady of the rib. The Eve of Hebrew myth is thought to have been inspired by Ninti.

I don't know about versions of biblical texts, but the tradition that Eve came from a rib may come from people who were aware that this story was derived from Enki and Ninhursag. This myth involves a garden and stuff associated with the land of Dilmun, which was at some point connected to Eden. Plus Adam as a gardener eating the fruit to gain knowledge. Adam eats the seed of the apple but more like his own seed.

ETA: oh yeah, apparently Ninti "lady of life" literally translates into chavah in Hebrew meaning "to live" or "to give life" which became Havah then Eve. so Eve's name also carries that play on word with lady rib, except it was lost in translation (I'll just assume Hebrew for rib is different).

But if Eve was really made from “half” of Adam, then that puts man and woman on equal footing

Does it though? It's literally saying that women exist because of men. Just another reason to make them subservient.

But Genesis 3:16 seemingly has God setting man above woman, so a Christian could just use that instead.

To the woman he said, “I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

I suppose you could argue it only applies to a husband and wife, or possibly even just Adam and Eve specifically, but that seems unlikely given the first part applies to women as a whole.

There's also Timothy 2:11-13, and Christians tend to hold the new testament in high regard.

11 A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. 12 I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet. 13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve.

(from the NIV for both)

So it seems like the Bible explicitly has God himself commanding sexism, rather than it needing to be inferred from symbolism.

I wonder how religious people reconcile their beliefs with things like this. Are the mistranslations interventions from God too?

So what you're saying is alien manipulation of the human genome staring with Adam and the mitochondrial Eve: confirmed?

And that they also left the chimp part of our brains that makes us xenophobic sexist assholes?

That and he was banging his mom

We're all McRibs on this glorious day

No, only i am mcribbed, as ordained by the std ministers and the holy Protestant church

Both are Irish. Ó means "of" or "from", and sometimes is interpreted as a looser association with a clann (family).

Scottish is Irish. Gaelic peoples settled Western Scotland from Ireland. Literally the word "Scot" used to mean "Irish".

https://www.houseofnames.com/blogs/mac-prefix At least according to this it's used by both cultures

Don't go questioning their fiction now. You could run the risk of being seen as a critical thinker with intelligence.