I see some say he and some say she.
Are those choices made by personal beliefs or is it not only people can't agree on if a god exists, which god exists but also if the god is a he or she?
My belief is the Matriarchies appeared first, making the earliest gods, female; Mother Nature and Gaia. These were the gods of nature connected to the earth and natural instinct; paradise. The Matriarchies would diminish with the rise of civilization. The men developed a different type of creativity besides natural and biological children; brain children. These brain children; idea and objects, were manmade and artificial, compared to natural things of the female gods; birds and trees. The men had unique gods. Very few people, today want to live just naturally within nature; full time camping out. Most prefer the creature comforts of artificial things. This rise of creativity by the males, cause the Gods to become masculine.
From Greek Mythology;
Hesiod says the world began with the spontaneous generation of four beings: first arose
Chaos (Chasm); then came
Gaia (the Earth), "the ever-sure foundation of all"; "dim"
Tartarus (the Underworld), in the depths of the Earth; and
Eros (Love) "fairest among the deathless gods".
[2]
Chaos is connected to the initial formation of the human ego as a secondary center. Chaos was considered the chasm between the separation of heaven and earth. If I was to describe this state of consciousness, this was an ego placeholder process, that messes up the circuits of natural instinct. Since this is only foundational, it is not very functional, just yet. One is between two states; chaos. From this chaos, things begin to differentiate as Gaia, the foundation of the earth, Tartarus of the underworld, and Eros or timeless love and desire.
These three symbols are connected to the rise of the matriarchies. The females still had a good handle on natural instinct connected to maternal instincts. Gaia was the earth and the foundation of all natural creation. The women were the stabilizing factor by virtue of material instinct. Mother animals have strong survival instincts that go beyond herself and include others.
From chaos, the ego secondary; stabilizing in the males, is symbolized as Tartarus; from the depths of the earth or the underworld. This is also symbolized by Adam, formed from the dust of the earth; Tartarus; death and dust to dust ashes to ashes.
In
Greek mythology,
Tartarus (
/ˈtɑːrtərəs/;
Ancient Greek:
Τάρταρος,
romanized:
Tártaros)
[1] is the deep abyss that is used as a dungeon of torment and suffering for the wicked and as the prison for the
Titans. Tartarus is the place where, according to
Plato's
Gorgias (c. 400 BC),
souls are judged after death and where the wicked received divine punishment. Tartarus appears in
early Greek cosmology, such as in
Hesiod's
Theogony, where the personified Tartarus is described as one of the earliest beings to exist, alongside
Chaos and
Gaia (Earth).
This symbolism of Tartarus paint a grim picture of the early differentiation of the male ego; place of torment and the prison for the Titans. This suggests that it occurred deep inside the collective unconscious, close foundational archetypes; titan firmware. The ego was captive during the duplicate firmware copying process.
The third goddess was Eros or love and desire. She was connected to Gaia; earth and eternal female instinct. My vision of this evolutionary time, are the males were trapped in their minds in a scary imaginary place, between life, death, fear and torment. The females, via the matriarchies, were helping the men stay in touch with reality, through Eros; timeless love and passion. The formation of marriage may have occurred at this time to care for the fragile forming egos of the males; baby ego. Mothers still boost the ego of their boys.
When men and woman form intimate relationships, there is cross programing dynamics. This natural marriage strategy would have helped fill in the void in the male ego, while also triggering the ego to form within the females; reciprocity. In Genesis, Adam is lonely in the garden; tartarus, and is put to sleep; reboot the system. Eve forms from Adam ribs, with ribs protects the heart; Eros and love.
Eros also appears to show how the early male and female ego evolve; desire and love in paradise. Adam and Eve, have this positive and embracing approach to reality and life; will and choices. From these choices, the female side of the males, formed via Eros, would give birth to brain children, such as the invention of written language. This started the shift toward the Patriarchies.
