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Originally Posted by Neithan
I think that both the feminine and the masculine were just different parts of Eru's mind, which I think is part of what Ka was getting at.
Just a note on feminine roles in mythology, the very first primitive civilizations often worshiped women figures (often times a women leader of the tribe) for fertility. Women are the symbol of fertility so from this came the concept of "Mother Earth". In those times these mother figures were the most important in mythology because people needed crops to survive. Later mythology was largely taken over by men (in Greek mythology mother earth's husband and later her male children gain power over her, this was probably the Greek's way of shifting from the female dominated religion to a male dominated one). In most mythologies there was still a remnent of that "mother figure" representing fertility (Demeter). In Tolkiens mythology Yavanna seems to fill this role. Of course that is not the only role in mythology for women, but it is the one role that is almost always played by a women.
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BULLS EYE! Correct! That was what i was trying to explain... Unfortunately, my clock did not agree and said it was time to be out the door.
For everyone to have alittle more briefing about attibutes, the following list explains common and uncommonly aspects to either female or male...
Feminine
Left
Water, Earth
Chalice
Spring
Summer
Masculine
Right
Air, Fire
Sword
Fall
Winter
The reason why I left out the Sun and Moon is because, not all cultures can agree upon which one is a feminine repersentation or masculine. For example, the Ancient greek and Celtic cultures mostly saw the moon as feminine and the sun as masculine, while Finnish and Ancient Egypt (sometimes, depends on kingdom and current cult, ect.) saw the moon as masculine and sun visa versa. This is important to remember when you read about Middle Earth, how the sun is referred to as 'she', this is another observation of Tolkien's love for Finnish culture which he used greatly in modeling some of its attributes.
~Ka~