Gender Roles In Creation Stories

Creation stories express various debates, many that relate to the topic of gender roles. In the making of my story, I was heavily inspired by “Life from Moon and the Stars” and “Creation By and From the Self.” Both these stories express gender where there is no inequality. In my story “The Bond of the Twins,” God was the ultimate power who began the start of life. God granted a natural disaster which eventually led to a creation of twins, a man and woman. From God’s formation, the man named Him and the woman named Her, worked together to establish all other aspects of life. Creation stories ultimately revolve around the idea of happiness, happiness that is produced from the bonding of two unique yet equal individuals. In the story “Life from Moon and the Stars,” Moon was the first man on earth and Morningstar was the first woman. I was engaged by how Morningstar, gave birth to not only humans, but to all other forms of life. When “[Moon and Morningstar] first made

In the story, “he,” the first man to step foot on Earth, wanted to find a wife because he felt alone. Ambitious for a significant other, “He grew as large as two persons embracing, and he caused his self to split into two matching parts, like two halves of a split pea, and from them arose husband and wife” (“Creation By and From the Self”). I enjoyed the idea of how “he” split himself in half to create his wife. This signifies how there is no gender inequality because the husband and wife was essentially created from each other. My story relates as the first man and woman was also created from a single thing; a pile of rocks. When God granted a natural disaster, “rocks eroded down the outskirts of the earth and dry mountains and as they piled up, formed into human twins” (“The Bond of the Twins”). As they were both formed from the crumbling of rocks, there is no constraint that proves that they are