 Eve and the Other Western religion also influenced the negative perception of

first woman, and its many mythic variations.

 In the basic story, women as evidenced in the Judeo-Christian story of Eve being
the Yahweh was compelled to create the first human being, a male.
 Eve had caused the downfall of humanity because she had listened to the snake.
 The same story template is presented in the story of Pandora.
 In the Greek myth, Pandora was the first woman created by Zeus as a form of
petty revenge on mankind because they had received the gift of fire from
Prometheus.
 In both stories, women were perceived as the cause of the downfall of mankind
because of their weakness.
 Miles links the fall of the goddess cult to the rise in discriminatory treatment
against women; the progression from diminished status.
 The fall of the mother goddess, the rise of goddess worship to phallus worship
may be connected to their phallocentric worship, and the negative implications of
a woman's role in the Christian Bible story fuel the negative perception of
women.
 Women were viewed of lesser value than men, or were deemed the root of all
sufferings.
 In the most extreme sense, women had the potential to cause the downfall of
great men.
 Women were the catalyst for men to lose their reason and responsibility.
 Most cultures have paranoia against women since the emergence of
phallocentric societies.
 The misogynistic treatment of women by Christianity, for instance, is puzzling.
 Despite the founder's respect for women, the subsequent leaders of these
religions seemed to have the need to denigrate women and assert their
feebleness and inadequacy.
 A recognized great thinker like St. Thomas shared this notion about women: "It
was necessary for woman to be made, as the Scripture says, as a "helper" to
man; not, indeed, as a Mother works, as some say, since man can helpmate in
be more efficiently helped by another man in other works: but as a helper in the
work of generation.. Among perfect animals, the active power of generation
belongs to the male sex, and the passive power to the female.
 And as among animals, there is a vital operation nobler than generation, to which
their life is principally directed; therefore, the male sex is not found in continual
union with the female in perfect animals, but only at the time of coition; so that we
may consider that by this means the male and female are one, as in plants they
 are always united; although in some cases one of them preponderates, and in
some the other.
 Therefore, there was greater reason for the distinction of these two forces in
man; so that the female should be produced separately from the male; although
they are camally united for generation.
 Therefore, directly after the formation of woman, it was said: 'And they shall be
two in one flesh' (Gn.2:24).
 The passage is an expression of the low perception of the men of the Church on
women.
 Others see women as the consorts of the devil, the beguiler of men, and the
potential cause of every human misery by offending the holy with their impurities.
 In these stories, there appears to be a pervasive belief about women rooted
in the foundational civilizations.
 People are inclined to believe that women are dangerous and must be
controlled if not suppressed.
 In numerous and significant instances, women have been referred to as the
sex that seduces man and makes him lose his orientation toward the true
good-which is the eternal life beyond the flesh.
 Although it is puzzling why some of the world's religions are so biased against
women, the fear theory offers some explanation for it.
 Thus, the vicious suppression of women in many of the world's cultures can
be explained.
 Religion is one major aspect that contributed to this suppression as evident in
the negative traits attributed to women in many religious texts.