viernes, 22 de mayo de 2015

Chauvinism in a dream time?

The Japanese myth of creation or (dream time) has a very sexist connotation, first three deities are born and the earth is separated from heaven, then a pair of gods appears periodically until Izanagi (The Male Who Invites) and Izanami (The Female Who Invites) are born.

They get married and after this they met behind a pillar and Izanami says to Izanagi "What a fine young man" and he replies "what a fine young woman" after this they procreate and gave birth to a floating island but they didn´t recognize it as they child so they ask the gods what was the problem, the answer was "The Woman Spoke First" this show us that the gods were chauvinist, after this they did the same process again but this time the man (Izanami) talked first. They mated and gave birth to the eight main islands of Japan and six minor islands. Then they gave birth to a variety of deities to inhabit those island.

Later on Izanami dies after giving birth to the god of fire, Izanagi cries and his tears gave birth to new gods, unfortunately hi feels anger and decides to kill the fire deity, after his son dies he goes to the underworld looking for Izanami, when he found her she attacked him but he escaped, later on he takes a bath and gave birth to more deities, the one who started having their own sons and finally a deity meets the Princess Brilliant Blossoms and decides to marry her, her father ask the man to marry both of her daughters but he refuses because the other princess was ugly, her father warns him that the sons of the princess brilliant blossoms will be mortal, he doesn't care.


That way we can see that the woman has the duty of have children and to be beautiful, a very chauvinist perception of the woman, a very similar perspective can be seen in the Maori culture. What do you think about this?

http://www.gly.uga.edu/railsback/CS/CSJapan.html

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