Ancient

Women in Asia
 Babylonia

Tiamat - Mesopotamian mythology.

- a goddess believed to be the origin of all the goddess according to the Babylonians

Marduk – Killed Tiamat and his discarded remains were he is believed to

have become heaven.
- Believed to have originated from Tiamat.
 Mesopotamia

Nammu – The goddess of water. It became essential to the creation

of man because water became an important element in the formation
of clay in human creation.
Inanna – Goddess of love and war
- Has a kind and cruel nature
- He has taken many forms but the most important is the
goddess of the earth. As the goddess of the earth, from her came the
all. Among the Semitics, Inanna was nicknamed Ishtar
 Dravidian
The Dravidian group in South Asia believed in
goddesses and one of them is the goddess of the
Moon.

But when the Indo-Aryans came, they became men

God. Main deity is Indra, the God of time.
 Japan

Amaterasu O-mi-ka-mi
- Goddess of the sun of the Japanese
- The emperors of Japan are believed to have
descended from him.
- The Japanese value him. It can be seen on the flag of
Japan where the symbol of the sun is prominent.
 The Women According to the
Law of Hammurabi
• Women are considered tradable. So marriage can be considered a financial transaction.
• The woman reconciles with another man in exchange for money and
dote. Often in childhood the agreement to marry a woman and a man.
• A woman who is unfaithful to her husband will be punished by
death. At the time the woman who had betrayed her husband was caught,
they will both be thrown into the deep part of the river or sea.
• Men have absolute power in the home and he could sell his wife and children.
• Women's participation in trade is prohibited
 The Women According to the
Code of Manu
● All rituals that have no respect for women do not exist makes sense.
● The father does not want to marry the daughter who is already a
teenager commits a violation of the law as bad as abortion child. This is
because the child must be pregnant woman.
● The ideal age gap between couples is three times sign of man to
handsome wife.
● The father of a woman who received a dowry is comparable to a man
offering woman to man.
 The Woman in Asian
Religions and Philosophy
Buddhism
● Women were allowed to be nuns. But
religion denies the recognition that women
are equal to men so the monks are still
deep in the monks.
● Buddhism also denied the attainment
of nirvana to those woman. A
woman's only hope is that she will be
born as a man in the next life and hit
nirvana.
Confucianism
● Sons are valued more than daughters.
This is because women give the dowry.
Viewing the
women who reduce the family coffers while
men do
adds to it. Moreover, the sons were
considered to be the
will continue the family name.
● A woman's worth is based on her ability
have a child and if this does not happen, the
woman may divorced by his wife.
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