Woman said: Behold, I kill not any lamb, nor bird, nor fish.
And with the setting of the sun on that day, you should be purged of all animosity and claims against every man, woman and child, in all the world.
Neither should you try to exalt His name by adding thereunto any name in the shape and figure of man, nor by any one of woman born.
The Creator hath given you hands to work with; come you****, be men and women.
Remember, all men and women are your*** brothers and sisters, and you should labor to make them make themselves a glory unto the Creator.
Nevertheless, the kingdom of peace and righteousness should not cover the earth over until this is understood by all men and women.
In this day, no mark of circumcision is required; but men and women should converse on the ways of the Creator understandingly.
If an exalted man marry a woman beneath him, he can lift her up.
But if an exalted woman marry a man beneath her, he will pull her down.
You* go not to the drunkard's den, nor to the unfortunate woman; these you* take not in your arms, saying: My brother, my sister, come with me, I will show you the kingdom of God!
Neither should you judge thyself by any God, or Lord, or Savior, or by any idol, or by any man or woman; for you standest thyself second to Jehovih in your* attributes.
But, when his children attain to be men and women, man no longer hold a law over them, for they become his equals, as brothers and sisters.
Yet, because there are bad men and bad women who do marry, it hath been found necessary to have a law between man and wife, as regard their duties.
Thy God never commanded man to eat flesh and blood, nor pretended that bread and wine were flesh and blood, nor commanded them to be eaten in remembrance of the flesh and blood of any man born of woman.
I hide not the work of my hand and of my angels in a corner; I extend them abroad over the earth; I manifest in the cities and country places; I prove unto all peoples, that common men and women can do the miracles for which Gods and Saviors have been worshipped.
Yea, I give these powers unto good and bad men, and unto good and bad women.
And they held conferences, and were divided, man against man, and woman against woman; full of boasting and short-sighted wisdom, seeking the applause of the multitude.
I have chosen me my women, who also comprehend, and, behold, our offspring will be very Gods!
And these infants should be fed and clothed and raised up, not after any man's whim or conceit, but according to the accumulated wisdom collected from all the different nations and peoples in all the world, as to how to make the best corporeal and spiritual men and women.
These are things for you* to learn, O man, going at the subject systematically, to find the best way to make the best man and woman out of the infants entrusted to you*.
But it should be a law that no man nor woman should marry more than one time.
And it came to pass, that they fell into the hands of such men and women as had been previously prepared by God to receive them.
And it should come to pass, when you* are once within, you* should fall upon them, and destroy them by the million, men, women and children.
Now, all these came to pass; the idolaters of Looeamong did fall upon the Budhists' earthly possessions, and did possess the land of Vind'yu, and, in the name of Kriste and the Holy Ghost, did kill seven million men, women and children.
And this also came to pass, the idolaters of Looeamong did fall upon the Algonquins, and caused three millions of them to be put to death, men, women and children.4
And on the day mentioned, the angels spake through her, saying: Go and fetch the president into the presence of this woman.
As for the Oralites, so called, because their doctrines and teachings were secret and only spoken, being taught , man to man and woman to woman, orally; they were non-resistants, and they owned nothing, giving all things to the rab'bah for the public good.
I will send millions of warring angels down to Xerxes, the Parsi'e'an king, and to his kingdom, and they should obsess every man, woman and child to desperate madness against the Argos'yans [Greeks] and the middle and west nations.
Accordingly, Ashtaroth commanded her marshals to summon two thousand million angel warriors, men and women, for the work in hand.
Hear you, then, the commandment of your God, Baal, ruler of heaven and earth: You should go down to the earth, to the Argos'yans, and obsess them, man, woman and child, and inspire them to terrible deeds of blood and havoc and death against the Parsi'e'ans who are coming against them.
So far Kabalactes had destroyed nine million men, women and children in the wars.
And the poor women had infants in their arms.
In the meantime, the loo'is of the hosts of Etchessa inspired their mortal wards, men and women, who had been born into the world to become disciples and followers of Sakaya, to come before him.
And it came to pass, that presently, there assembled in Sakaya's native city, to hear him preach, men and women from remote distances.
The fourth law is: To love all men, women and children, as brothers and sisters.
Take no man nor woman into the family till first pledged to serve the All Person, Jehovih (Ormazd), with a full and willing heart.
Nor should a rab'bah have any privileges or emoluments, over and above any member of the community; nor one man above another; nor one woman above another; for there should be no partiality, even in favor of the learned and good, over and above the ignorant and the less good.
When Ka'yu was ready for the work of God, there came to him from the twelve provinces of Chine'ya seventy-two men and women of great learning, having heard of Ka'yu's wisdom.
I am sent into the world to make men of men, and women of women.
To say no ill of any man nor woman nor child.
No man should be bound to a woman whose desires lay in the corporeal self.
And women should have the same privilege.
To find all the beauties in a man or woman, or in their behavior: this is God-like.
LOVE; to love the Great Spirit; to love the parents; to love discipline and industry; marriage; marriage for earthly sake being wicked; marriage for spiritual redemption of the world by generations of holier men and women.
And in both, Chine'ya and Vind'yu, were there slain in war, in order to establish the names of these Gods amongst mortals, more than one hundred and forty millions of people, men, women and children.
The man should have but one wife, and the woman but one husband.
I go to set man at variance against his brother and father, and woman against her sister and mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
I teach both angels and mortals, they should not worship any one born of woman.
And your accusation against them was: They worship not Gods born of woman.
His love know all men and women alike.
A sheep with a woman's face; symbol of love.
A sign, a face within a circle; also, written and painted, a woman with a child.
Also a woman preacher.
Portrait, man only, and not woman.
M'gan (Panic), a woman; i.e., less than man, or little man.
Many of their women had familiar spirits, and they prostituted themselves in counseling with the multitude on earthly things (Moses), and they thus invited into Egypt spirits of the lower heavens who would not raise up from the earth; and when young babes were born they were obsessed, and these evil spirits in justification of their sins, taught re-incarnation.
But the perversion of this truth is in attributing to some mortal woman the maternity of some mortal man.
Amongst the Israelites it was common for pretenders and magicians to claim a woman by the name of Mi for Mother, which, in mockery, the word Mi became Marah, signifying bitter.
The worshiper of a God born of a woman is Sih (Vede).
(Panic.) Jehovih said: Infants had gone to heaven before the earth was, and had grown to be wise men and women, but they had not tasted of the fruit of the Tree of Life; and when the earth was ripe unto giving mortal birth to man these angels alighted on the earth.
Yea, they made small images of Nu, and their women and children went into the market-places selling them.
Du'gan, woman.
M'wi, a tattling woman.
M'wa'shu, woman, high priest.
To do good unto others; to harm no man, woman, nor child, and to pray only to the Great Eolin; to heal the sick by sacred words, and by motions of the hand.
M.: What are the working tools of man born of woman?
That I will not from this time forth utter one slanderous word against these my brethren, nor against any man nor woman nor child belonging to them or that is dependent on them.
(With his sword he knocks off the head-covering.) Be as beasts no more, but men and women.
(The M'ghan, the women, now come forward, having cloth about the loins, and they bring the dead men and place their bodies on the altar of sacrifice, which hath been previously heaped up with dry wood, and when the fire is lighted the M'gau march around the altar of fire, singing and clapping hands.
Bow down your heads, M'ghan'a (the women), and invoke His mighty power!
When a man is attuned to Him, and a woman attuned to Him, they will themselves be as one.
and I.: This, then, be my covenant: I will serve You, O Jehovih, and no other God, nor Lord, nor any other person born of woman, who profess''' to save the souls of men; nor will I pray to them or adore them; for by their names have the nations of the earth been accursed with war and destruction.
Wa-wa-tu-sa'a (women), five in number, bring water in basins and set them down by the feet of the Emeth'a.
H.: A greater light I now give unto you, in the name of Jehovih, which is: THAT YE SHOULD DO GOOD UNTO OTHERS WITH ALL YOUR WISDOM AND STRENGTH, ALL THE DAYS OF YOUR LIVES; AND THAT YOU**** SHOULD PERCEIVE NO EVIL IN ANY MAN, NOR WOMAN, NOR CHILD, BUT IN THEIR BIRTH AND SURROUNDINGS.
Inasmuch as His Ever Presence quickened into life all that live, so is His Ever Presence with the living, seeing, hearing and feeling every word and act of all men, women and children on earth and in heaven.
Then God descended to the earth, incarnated himself in a woman, and was born of a virgin, becoming Christ, the Savior of the world!
Go, then, procure wine and women, and feast thyself while you mayst.
In those days it so happened that one Koetha, an Egyptian woman, a su'is, went into the lodge at noon, no person being within the lodge save herself.
But the woman, knowing it was a spirit, said: If I tell what I have heard, I will be accursed; for was it not the multitude of seeresses that brought the plagues on Egypt?
The woman, Koetha, did as commanded, and Moses commanded workmen to make a tabernacle (a model or image of a place of worship, a portable temple), and the sacred implements were kept within said tabernacle, and this was the corporeal base of the ark of Bon, a locality in the etherean heaven, by which the light of the sacred heaven reached the earth to Moses and his people, in a pillar of cloud by day and of light by night.
So they broke their fasts by hundreds and by thousands; and there came by their camps numberless birds, and they caught and killed and ate them freely; but, being unaccustomed to such diet, they were taken with fever and died, upward of sixty thousand of them, men, women and children, and the place was called Kibrath-Hattaavah, the place of lusters.
Ashtaroth, whose dominions extended jointly with Baal over Western and Southern Arabin'ya, sent spirit emissaries to the handsomest of the women of Canaan, and by impression led them into the camps of the Israelites, to tempt the young men, for by these means did the heathen Gods determine to destroy the worshipers of the GREAT UNSEEN.
And many of the Israelitish young men were tempted by the beauty of the heathen women and thus took them for wives; and said wives brought with them their own familiar spirits, who were slaves to Baal and Ashtaroth.
For three hundred and ninety-seven years after going out of Egypt, the Israelites lived without a corporeal king, or other government, save the community of fathers; and they attained to the number of six millions of souls, men, women and children.
The duties of her inspiration to mortal women were to clothe themselves and to decorate themselves with gold and silver ornaments.
Prior to this period Iranian women seldom wore clothes.
These are My kingdoms, prepared for the spirits of man and women and children, whom I bring forth into life on corpor.
The false Te-in, mocking, said: And you wilt bury it in the depths of hell, you, of woman born.
To the angels God said: By inspiration and otherwise, lead ye man and woman together as husband and wife, to the profit of the voice of God.
For by inspiration will I lead the king of kings to marry with a barren woman; and because he should have no heirs, he should become a tool in my hands for the deliverance of the Faithists, who are persecuted and outlawed.
The king told the queen, who was near the time of limit for women, and she would not believe.
The angel said: Do you as the king hath said, and the angels will bring a male child unto you* in your* dark chamber; and your* maids and your* servants should see to it that no other woman enter''' into your* place; and they will testify that the child is your** own.
The king said: There are but three pleasures in all the world: eating and drinking is one; sleeping is another; the presence of women is the third.
During the day, many more came; so by night there were one hundred, men, women and children, and the prince commanded them to sit about the altar of Jehovih.
Therefore, let men and women be discreet of their persons; but make the altars of sacrifice numerous.
One community (family) of a score of men and women, that dwell together in peace and love, doing good toward one another, is the manifestation of more wisdom than all the books in the world.
My Father in heaven, is your*** Father also; all men and women are my brothers and sisters.
Him inspire you**** to an I'hin woman for my voice.
The loo'is perceived what manner of man he was, and they led him to take an I'hin woman to wife, and she bore him a son, Hasumat.
Him they also inspired to take an I'hin woman to wife, and she bore a son, Saichabal, who was guarded in the same way.
So that no man, nor woman, nor child, could come into the palace or palace grounds without permission.
And straightway I sent my maids and procured an Israelitish woman as nurse for the child.
And Leotonas, seeing it was a Hebrew child, commanded one of her maids to go and bring an Israelitish woman to nurse it.
Then spake the king, saying: My son, with all your*** wisdom, can you understand a woman?
What is uppermost in a woman's heart, that speak she first; but as to man, he speak first that which lie at the bottom of his heart.
And Moses appointed the month Abib and the tenth day thereof, when all the people should start; and moreover, he said unto the Heads: You**** should see to it that the night before they start, even at the hour of sunset, and the moment thereof, every family should offer a lamb in sacrifice, and every man, and every woman, and every child that can speak, should covenant unto Jehovih in the blood of the lamb.
And if such people start forth, to quit my service, to go out of my holy land, then should my loyal slaves fall upon them and slay them, right and left, sparing neither man, woman nor child.
nor have I courage to face a man or woman.
And in that night the first-born of every woman, and the first-born of every beast in the fields, should die for all the Eguptians; and in that same night not one of the Israelites should go down in death.
Pharaoh was now stricken, but not unto repentance, for evil was in his heart, and he cursed Moses and the Israelites, and swore an oath to destroy Israel, man, woman and child, so that never more should there be one on the earth.
But things had changed wonderfully as to the Eguptians, for when they beheld the Israelites were indeed going, and knew the miracles that had taken place, they relented, and brought them gifts of gold and silver; and also asses and camels for the Hebrew women and children to ride upon; and gave them food to eat.
But the Israelitish women said: Nay, and we take these things we will be under obligations to the Eguptians.
So the Faithist women accepted the presents of asses and camels, and of other things besides; and they mounted the asses and camels, and rode them.
And the number of Israelites that thus went forth out of Egupt was three million seven hundred and fifty-thousand men, women and children.
And Moses made a song unto Jehovih, and Miriam, his sister sang it and played on the timbrel, and the women of Israel danced before Jehovih.
Who led forth My millions; and delivered them out of a great power without loss of a man, woman or child?
And though they impress me and torture me, or slay me outright, they should not force me; I will not draw one drop of blood in any man or woman or child whom You hast created alive on the earth.
Men and women alike served the same conditions.
Our kingdoms are like old women, resigned to routine, living, but dead.
Thus, did Anuhasaj put Gods and Goddesses under obligations to himself, and they acquiesced in his proceedings, saying: Nay, we will not only contribute man and women for this purpose, but we will labor with our own hands for the space of twenty days, helping to build the capital city, and to open roads, in all directions.
To do which ye should use the oracles, or prophets and seers, or magicians, or inspiration; and you**** should set the kings and queens of the earth to war upon them, and spare them not, man, woman or child.
For in kosmon, mortals should know that even as the earth hath been a place of foolish sacrifice to persons born of woman, so were My heavens debauched in that day by similar oppression and cruelty.
Neither should any man do evil for evil's sake; nor by violence oppress any man, woman or child.
From the time of the beginning of the revolt until it was completed as a confederacy was sixty and four days, and the number of inhabitants in these heavens at that time was eight thousand millions, men, women and children.
And if a man or a woman preach in my heavens, and say: Behold, there is a higher heaven, that person should be cast into hell, as my son judge.
And no man-angel, nor woman-angel should pass outward beyond my roadway forever.
And there were thus thrown out of employment seven hundred millions, men and women!
Whoever worship the Great Spirit under the name Jehovih, or Ormazd, should be put to death, both men and women.
Sudga, the false, said: By all my parts, to shape the arms and legs of the unborn in comeliness, should my legions drum into the ears of enceinte women a thousand years, swearing them to your*** name, O De'yus; or, if refusing, to curse with crookedness all their progeny.
Beside Baal, on the downward course to the earth, but a little behind him, woman-like, was Ashtaroth, with her thousand attendants, all accoutered to show their high esteem for their warring Goddess.
To the east and west, and north and south, Baal and Ashtaroth spread out their armies, wide as the three great lands they had sworn to subdue unto the Lord God, who, of woman born, was the most presuming son the earth had yet brought forth.
Wherefore, then, come you**** in arrogance, demanding our wards to service of your God, born of woman?
When night is on and mortals sleep, my hosts should fall upon the ashars, the guardian angels, and drive them hence, obsessing every man, and woman and child, in these great divisions of the earth.
Thus laid the three great countries, Arabin'ya, Parsi'e and Heleste, of which Parsi'e was mightiest, peopled with very giants; lofty-bearing men and women, of red, copper colored; and with an abundance of long black hair; high in the nose and cheek bones; with determined jaws, and eyes to charm and command; mostly full-blooded I'huans, half-breeds between the I'huans and the burrowers in the ground, the brown people, dull and stupid.
And men and angels should see and understand that man of himself never invent''' a God in figure of a man born of woman.
In Parsi'e there fell this night twelve hundred thousand men, women and children into the clutches of the hosts of De'yus, the Lord God, the false.
And to the sleeping mortals, men, women and children, hied them with oaths and loud boastings, threatening Jehovih's angels with the tortures of hell if they did not instantly resign all unto Ho-Joss, the all highest ruler, dweller in Hored.9
Sudga opened the door at night for his hosts to fall on the weakest of mortals, as to faith in Ormazd, Who had become as a stale story to hundreds of thousands of men and women.
In Vind'yu had woman risen in knowledge, higher than the highest of women in other parts of the world.
In the HOUSES OF PHILOSOPHY and HOUSES OF SCIENCE women were foremost, as to men, and skeptical as to the Ormazdian power.
And the Lord God drew from the flesh, and from the bones, and from the blood of A'su, and thus made woman, and brought her unto A'su.
And the Lord God repeated his commandment unto woman, saying: You should sojourn for a season on the earth, and cleave unto A'su, for he is your*** husband, and you are his wife; and you should partake of all things on the face of the earth, save of the tree of life, which is of both good and evil, for in the day you eatest thereof you should surely die.
But because of the serpent (the earth) of the woman, she hearkened unto him, and he said unto the woman: I say unto you, in the day you eatest thereof you should have your* eyes opened, and should become as a Goddess, creating offspring.
And the woman was more easily persuaded than man, for she had confidence in the serpent; and they partook of the fruit thereof; and, of a truth, their eyes were opened, and they beheld their nakedness.
A'su said: The woman you gavest me to be with me, led me, saying: Behold, it is good fruit; and we ate thereof.
The Lord God said: Woman, what hast you done?
And the woman answered, saying: The serpent beguiled me.
Unto the woman the Lord God said: Because you hast conceived, you should have great sorrow; in sorrow bring forth children; your* desire should be to your* husband, and he should rule over you.
But woman hearkened not to my counsel, but to the serpent, and sin came into the world.
Therefore should woman bring forth in pain all the generations of the earth.
So Kwan started with an army of four thousand soldiers, men and women, with spears, axes, scythes, swords and slings, and bows and arrows; and he marched against Tzeyot, a city of a hundred thousand people; and here ruled king Cha Ung Chin, with twenty thousand soldiers.
He said to his captain: Send you a thousand women soldiers and kill Kwan and his army; they are mad, they know not what war is.
The captain went forth to battle, but he took beside the thousand women soldiers a thousand men soldiers.
But lo and behold, Kwan and his soldiers knew no drill, but they ran forward so strangely that their enemies knew not how to fight them, and they fled in fear, save the captain and a hundred women, who were instantly put to death.
Cha Ung Chin was angry, and he sent ten thousand soldiers against Kwan's ragged army; and when the battle was begun, the angels cast clouds before the hosts of Cha Ung Chin, and they thought they beheld hundreds of thousands of soldiers coming upon them, and they turned and fled also, save five hundred, who were captured and instantly slain, men and women.
On the morrow I will lead thirty thousand pressed men and women, and make it a day of sport to slaughter Kwan's army.
Besides this, Kwan put another ten thousand men and women to clearing houses and walls away, and making new streets in many ways; so that at the time of the first sacrifice the city of Tzeyot looked not like itself; and Kwan gave it a new name, Lu An, and commanded all people to call it by that name, or suffer death.
And there came a woman of Che Song, named Ha-se, an I'hin, through whom the Voice was regained.
Neither should any man nor woman have favor in the courts, who hold sacred the life of a cow, or a horse, or a dog, or any other animal on the face of the earth, or in the waters, or in the air above the earth.
In those days many of the Zarathustrians were celibates; and the king saw his people being reduced by war, and he made a law against celibacy, commanding all men to marry, and all women to bring forth children, or be put to death.
And it came to pass that a woman of Hong Ge, with three adopted children, escaped from the tyranny of Dhi'wan, fleeing for the southern tribes of HiSeeGua and Yo, and Gwan Goon; and with her, Po wed, and he named his wife Ah T'dowh Jee.
The man or woman that is weak, or deformed, or blind, or deaf, or with running sores, or with hidden sickness, should not marry, nor bring forth heirs.
Behold, I have given many gifts unto my people: the woman to give suck; the very strong man to carry burdens; the wise man to oversee the city; the learned man to explain the ancients; the prophet to hear my voice; the magician to hear the voice of angels; the physician to heal the sick; every several one gave I good gifts.
And Han himself perished by the blow of a barbarian woman.
Abram was of pure blood, an I'huan; and the light of su-is had been with his forefathers and foremothers since the flood, and he was large and red, like new copper, and had black hair and long beard, fierce to look upon; but his soul was gentle as a woman's.
And Abram knew these things, for he had been a servant in a king's family where learned men and women congregated.
And the Lord spake to Abraham, saying: Because of the hatred between your*** women, Hagar's son will be as a wild man; his hand should be against every man, and every man should be against him.
Go, therefore, my son, and reconcile your*** women.
I am an Egyptian woman, and I left my people for you.
In the Sun Kingdom dwelt men and women of learning, and they had tablets and books and maps relating to heaven and earth, which books, maps, and tablets were kept in a library, the summit of which building was used as an oracle for consulting with the spirits, called Lords of heaven.
For which purpose, a man or woman, whose head had been flattened in infancy, sat by a table covered with sand, whereon the spirits wrote with the finger.
And God said: Whoever I lead to you* should be your; you should henceforth be father to all men and women and children that are your.
I cannot be put off with money and with gifts, like a peevish child or a wanton woman.
Ben-haoma numbered the Faithists of his day, and there were of them four thousand, men, women and children, and all other nations and tribes in Vind'yu were idolaters.
Brahma said: Woe is me, if my soul turn''' toward woman!
Brahma said: If I love a woman, O Ormazd, may I not lose my love for You?
In answer to his summons, there came to the gate, the damsel Yu-tiv, fairest of women, draped, also, to go before the priest for confession.
But, alas, evil overtook me; my soul desired a woman.
One so holy should never with woman wed.
To win such a man's love, the best of women would forget her God!
To bear you one child, instead of seven, a woman would cleave the earth in twain.
Brahma said: Who are you, O woman?
And the rudeness of men; the light-heartedness of women!
But because You hast raised up here so fair a woman, and withal so wise, give me leave that I may dwell near at hand!
Hold up your* hand, O woman!
Never woman on the whole earth brought forth so rich a harvest; but yet my soul is tortured to the very center!
O the delight to be with these Gods, and with Yu-tiv, Goddess of women!
O mother, how nearly a righteous woman dwell''' with the Creator!
And as to those figures that talked, and had the semblance of men and women, even to their garments, I say unto you all, they emanate from the same source, even from our father, even Brahma.
Arise, O you, and be a woman!
And his sons also preached and explained; and Yu-tiv explained to all women how it was with her when pregnant with her sons.
And not a few of them were men and women of wealth, and they cast their treasures at Brahma's feet, saying: Take you this trash, and give me of everlasting life instead.
So Brahma did as commanded, and he established the mountains of Roam, and the valleys in the mountains of Roam, and his people dwelt there, in all six thousand eight hundred and twenty, men, women and children.
Where in all the world is such a woman?
To all my other sons I have told my love, but to thee my soul so overflowe, I am as a dumb woman.
And lo and behold, there arose every man, woman and child, more than ten thousand.
And there came with Ara into Owg one thousand men, women and children; and they built a city and called it Eftspan, signifying place of beauty.
Chiawassaibakanalszhoo was the son of TenehamgameralhuchsukzhaistoMaipowwassaa, who was son of Thusaiganganenosatamakka, who built the great east canal, the Oseowagallaxacola, in the rich valley of Tiedaswonoghassie, and through the land of Seganeogalgalyaluciahomaahomhom, where dwelt the large men and women, the Ongewahapackaka-ganganecolabazkoaxax.
Taught man to till the soil and grow wheat and corn; taught the women how to grind it and make bread.
Neither grew there any grain; the grinding mills of the women were silent, like the dead stretched over all the fields!
Into the forest, afar off, fled the women with the children, hungry, weeping, starving.
And the Great Spirit cried out with a loud voice, so that the earth and heaven shook with the power of His voice; sifted all things, as a woman sift''' meal.
And you should deal unto all men, and women and children, as justly and as kindly as to thine own mother, out of whose breast you wert fed when you wert helpless and of no strength.
And you should not tell lies; nor speak falsely against any man, nor woman, nor child; nor break your* word of promise, even though death come upon thee to induce you* otherwise.
And you should respect the times of woman; and when she is bearing unto you, thou should not lie with her; nor give her heavy labor, nor angry words, nor fret her; but be obedient to her, doing whatsoever she ask''' you to do, for it is her time, and she is thy queen.
Teaching this to your* young men and to your* young women, and to theirs that come after them, forever; for their young are begotten of Me, and I will have them shapely, and strong, and brave!
You should labor six days, but on the seventh day it is the moon's day, and you should not labor, nor hunt, nor fish, but go to the altar of your*** Creator and dance and sing before Me; and sit in silence to hear My words, which I speak into the souls of men, and of women and children.
And the women heard!
From far over the water will I bring their kindred (Jews), who worship none born of woman; a wise speaking people.
I will chase away all Gods and Saviors born of woman.
Who can shake their faith, or feed them with thy story of a Savior born of woman?
Cpenta-armij, being under the Voice of Jehovih said: For joy created I man and woman; for seasons of labor and seasons of recreation.
To Uropa, because she was first founded by a woman, I establish a heavenly kingdom, and it should be called HIMMEL.
And My Lords should so appoint My ashars that each and every ashar should have a hundred changes of labor with a hundred different mortals, in order to learn all the varieties of men and women I have created.
God said: And the same law should apply in the case of a Zarathustrian woman as with a man.
But in no case should a Zarathustrian spirit child be left to fetal with a contentious mortal woman, nor with a drunken mortal man.
Then God decreed the eighth Divan law, which was: The spirit of such a woman should not be suffered to go to the place of her husband.
The ninth Divan law was the same, wherein a Zarathustrian woman whose husband was not a Zarathustrian; for he was bound by the same law, and thus kept separate in heaven until he accepted the Ormazdian law.
And they should teach him the restoration of spirits in chaos, and crazy spirits, and deformed spirits, and of sick spirits, and of spirits afflicted with foul smells, that cannot clean themselves, especially of the spirits of women who produced abortion on themselves, or suffered it to be done unto them, and of monomaniacs, and all manner of diseased spirits.
But it came to pass in course of time the evil voice (satan) encompassed the earth about with serpents that spake like men and angels, and the serpents made friends with All Evil, Father of Anra'mainyus; and the women of the tribes of A'su went and tempted the first men, the I'hins, whereby there was born into the world evil offspring.
For that reason the Lord singled out the purest and most virtuous of women; the wisest, strongest and most faithful, best of men, and married them, giving two women to one man, according to law.
And the heirs of the wisest and most virtuous of men and women were wiser than their parents.
But Anra'mainyus, evil creator of evil, went to the druk women; speaking to them in a dark corner, he said: You* have of the root of Babao to make delirious; fetch it to the white people that came with doves' wings; fetch, and they will eat and get drunk.
The Lord said: Having designed Ham for teaching the barbarian world of me and my dominion, I also prepared them that, through their seed, men and women should have hair neither straight nor short, but long and curled, and red, and white, and brown, whereby might be traced in after ages the genealogy of nations.6
And they retained their name, Shem, to the last; but the I'huans called them Sri-vede-iyi, signifying, people of the true light, woman-like.
For hundreds of years you hast had the service of these hapless creatures; so should you now serve them by making them intelligent men and women.
But as long as he find a man, or woman, or child, who lack''' in anything, he should feel to say: Alas, what I have done is as nothing in the resurrection of my fellows.
The Voice ceased, and Osire said: If a man wed a woman with an evil temper, his glory lie not in going away from her, but in teaching her to overcome her temper; or, if her husband be evil, her glory lie not in going away from him, but in reforming him.
So, it came to pass, that the I'huan women boasted of their conquests, bringing forth heirs of more shapeliness.
Now, in course of time, these heirs grew to be men and women; and, behold, they had the gift of prophecy, and of seeing visions and of hearing the voice of the angels of heaven.
And woman even care less than man.
Nevertheless, a time come upon the world, in a later age, when man and woman both consider these things, and somewhat govern themselves accordingly.
I was as a shapely stone in Jehovih's edifice, and by hard toil a fashioner of the flesh mold of man and woman.
You drivest me back to the time Thy angels came and stood man upright, saying: Be you a man; and be you a woman!
Men and women with long hair hanging down; and hands with claw nails, fierce and war-like.
And you should build a new kingdom in heaven, and call it Gau,1 and it should be thy judgment seat, with a Council of one hundred thousand men and women.
And your*** Lords should find the loo'is who have been preparing these matters by birth; and the loo'is should lead the angels around about amongst mortals, finding the most comely-formed men and women and young children.
And the women look on, receiving the spirit of the matter in their souls, the which entail''' on their offspring that which is desired by the Gods.
I will tell you* a great secret: These are the words of your Creator: Man and woman are pro-creators!
Take heed of your*** offspring, O woman!
According to the perfection of the images, so were they reckoned favored by Jehovih; and the sign of Jehovih's approval was manifested in the time of the sacred dance given by the su'is selected; which was, if the whirling dance caused many women to fall down by enchantment, then was Jehovih pleased.
The enchantment of the women was what the Lords desired, for the impression of the soul of woman shape the unborn child.
The unseen angels lead man and woman together, and say: Marry!
Whoso kill''' a man, or woman, or child, should be put to death.
He that respect''' not the time of woman should be put to death.
Hear me, O men and women!
So, because of the exhibition of great power and wisdom, the third day had changed the fortunes and aspirations of every man and woman in the lower heaven.
Now have you* cast aside your crowns and high estate, praying to become workers amongst the host of men and women!
Peace and patience be unto all men, that you**** may comprehend my words, and bear witness that heaven and earth in every part is Jehovih's, and that all men and women are His sons and daughters, worlds without end.
And whether the Captain (Lord) or his private (angel) carry the light to the prophet, what matter''' it to the man or woman who seek''' to serve Jehovih by doing good works?
Behold, I am not for one man only, nor for one woman, nor for one book; but wherever the light of wisdom and the desire for virtue and holy deeds shine, there will my speech manifest.
And no man should take the second till he hath learned all the words of the first; nor should he take the third till he hath learned all the words of the second; and so on, should man learn all my sacred words; from mouth to ear should they be learned by every man and every woman of my people, saith the Lord.
And, if a woman, she should become fruitful and have great rejoicing.
I will have but one wife, I will not go after other women whilst she live.
I will suffer no man nor woman of poison (leprosy) to come near the oe'ugah (camp).
I will curse no man, nor woman, nor child, for it is the Lord's commandment.
If a woman entice me, I will go secrete myself and repeat the sacred words.
I will respect the times of woman, for she is the gift of the Lord to be man's helpmate.
For the sick I will provide, and for the woman with a newborn child.
And if a man be sick of poison, or a woman sick of poison, I will go to the same.
And the Lord made an image to stand at the extreme of the altar, whither only holy men and women might pass, and the Lord called the emblem Fete,3 signifying, BEYOND ME THERE IS NO APPEAL.
They visit their evils upon mortals; the young child cannot escape them, nor the middle-aged, nor the old man nor old woman.
And when you hast spread the net, you should send to the large kingdoms in hada, and to the false kingdoms, a sufficient number of ethereans of great power; and you should send down to the earth, to Wagga, a sufficient number of ethereans, that every mortal man and mortal woman, and every mortal child, should have five to attend.
And man and woman were at maturity at seven years old; and not many lived above thirty years; but they were prolific; many of the mothers bringing forth two score sons and daughters, and from two to four at a birth.
But the brown people burnt with desires, and they laid hold of the I'hin women when they went into the fields, and forced them, and thus brought forth again the I'huan race, the copper colored, strong and bright and quick.
Yea, on all the divisions of the earth have there been great cities and nations, and men and women of great learning.
And the rich valleys of Mai, with her thousand cities, should be rent with the madness of men and women fleeing before the waters of the ocean.
And women and children should fall by the way and be drowned; and men should go down in the water and rise not.
Man inquired of the Lord: You has shown the males and females of all the living the times and periods to come together; but man and woman hast you not shown?
You should also respect the times of woman.
And man distinguished not his sister or mother; and woman distinguished not her brother or father.
Choose now your* council, My Son, and also your* sub-officers, and when you hast completed the list, leave in Yeshuah the sub-officers and proceed you, and your* council of one million men and women with you, down to the earth and heaven thereof, and cast thine eyes upon the inhabitants, for they are in distress.
They perceived, and, after due salutations, were provided with an escort of five hundred thousand men and women; and they departed on their way to Yeshuah.
God's etherean hosts became as a training school to raise up a God and Lords and marshals and es'enaurs, and all other officers, and men and women, for a lower heaven.
For what more is there in any man or woman than to learn to put forth?
And what more pitiful thing is there in heaven than a man or woman who hath but dragged along?
God said: What man or what woman have you* found who saith: Come you* angels of Jehovih, tell me wherein I can do more good works, for I thirst, and am hungry to serve Jehovih with all my wisdom and strength in doing good to my fellows?
And My ethereans established loo'is on the lands of the earth; and they commanded the loo'is, saying to them: Your office is to lead mortals by inspiration to dwell together, man and woman, as husband and wife; and in such adaptation that their offspring should rise higher in wisdom, love and power, than the father and mother.
Jehovih said: I will confound the wise man in the latter days; for he should not discover why man and woman lived not indiscriminately, as the beasts.
By My loo'is was man and woman inspired to raise up such sons and daughters as would glorify Me and My works; by My loo'is have I maintained My foothold amongst mortals.
And woman, being more helpless than man, cried out with fear, saying: O Lord, how should I bring forth unto you*, and not unto the sons of death?
And the Lord commanded the male I'hins, old and young, to be circumcised, that woman might not be deceived by the druks.
And the I'hins circumcised one another, old and young; for it was the testimony of the Lord unto woman that seed of their seed was born to everlasting life.
And the I'hins, men and women, with their servants, built images of stone and clay and wood unto the Lord, and stood them by the altars of sacrifice.
As long as man and woman should bring forth heirs unto You, this kingdom should not cease to glorify You.
The marshals then arranged the angels and they passed in front of the throne, and so great was God's wisdom that, in looking on the angels as they passed, he perceived the rates of every man and woman.
In the first year of Hored there were received into God's kingdom in heaven, one and a half million es'yans, men, women and children, born of the earth.
And God appointed fifty governors for the fifty places required, and he gave each of them five thousand men and women to accompany them.
So God departed out of Hored and embarked on a ship, taking with him seven thousand men and women for his escort, beside a thousand es'enaurs and the crew of three thousand to work the ship.
And each and every man-child and woman-child born into life will I quicken with a new spirit, which should proceed out of Me at the time of conception.
She was typically chosen from the local area and had to meet several requirements, including being a mature woman of reputable character and often a virgin in the early centuries.
Initially, the Pythia was a young virgin, but following the abduction of a Pythia by Echecrates of Thessaly in the 3rd century BCE, only women over fifty were appointed, dressed to resemble young maidens.
The Pythia was chosen from among the local women of Delphi, who were required to lead sober lives.
Up to three women served as Pythia during its peak, with two alternating and one as a reserve.
The Finn women had children.
The dynamic here—elites chasing foreign women, their own daughters rebelling with foreign men—hints at tensions over identity, power, or alliances, possibly exaggerated for dramatic effect.
Egyptian Mythology: Hathor, the goddess of the sky, women, and fertility, was often depicted as a cow bearing the sun disk between her horns, symbolizing her role in the daily rebirth of the sun.
When they were well established, their merchants exchanged their beautiful copper weapons and all sorts of jewels for our iron weapons and hides of wild beasts, which were abundant in our southern countries; but the Golen celebrated all sorts of vile and monstrous festivals, which the inhabitants of the coast promoted with their wanton women and sweet poisonous wine.
In Britain there were plenty of men, but few women.
His fighting men and many of our people took women and children on board, and when Jon saw that he and his people would be punished for their misdeeds, he secretly took his departure.
Soon after they had left the harbour they fell in with at least thirty ships coming from Tyre with women and children.
For this purpose he had brought great treasures with him, above all, jewels for women more beautiful than had ever been seen before.
At first the men of Athens only married women of our own race, but the young men as they grew up with the girls of the country took them to wife.
The women applied to their husbands, the husbands appealed to the counts; the counts had nothing to give, or if they had, they hid it away.
Then he said to his executioners, Throw this woman overboard.
Driven by a desire to stay with his children, Gary’s search led him to a serendipitous encounter with a woman in a jazz bar who introduced him to the healing practices of Aboriginal tribes in Australia.
At the bidding of Zeus, he threw stones over his head; they became men, and the stones which Pyrrha threw became women.
The wife thought the fish must be exceptionally good to eat, but the husband said he had promised the old man to keep it and made the woman swear not to eat it.
Atrahasis made an offering to them, at which the gods gathered like flies, and Enki established barren women and stillbirth to avoid the problem in the future.
A woman "clothed with the sun" gave birth to a man child who was taken up by God.
The woman then lived in the wilderness, where the Devil-dragon, cast down to earth, persecuted her.
At one time he cast a flood of water from his mouth trying to wash her away, but the earth helped the woman and swallowed the flood.
Ababua (northern Congo):An old woman hoarded water and killed men who sought it.
The hero Mba succeeded in killing the woman.
Kikuyu (Kenya):A beautiful but mysterious woman agreed to marry a man on the condition that he never ask about her family.
Bena-Lulua (Congo River, southeast Zaire):The old water woman only gave water to him who sucks her sores.
AsiaVogul:After seven years of drought, the Great Woman said to the Great Man that rains had come elsewhere; how should they save themselves.
However, all but one young man and woman died of hunger.
He further told her to refuse to board and, when her husband strikes her in anger, to say, "Why do you strike me, Shitkur?" Because the woman followed this advise, the devil was able to accompany her when she boarded the boat.
From these, a woman arose, calling herself Manu's daughter.
Facing north, east, and west, the man swore that the woman was his sister; facing south, the man said she was his wife.
Kamar (Raipur District, Central India):A boy and girl were born to the first man and woman.
The man and woman heard it coming, so they shut their children in a hollow piece of wood with provisions to last until the flood subsides.
Seeing the sad state of the world, Pathian, the creator, sent a man and a woman from a cave on the hill.
Lushai (Assam):The king of the water demons fell in love with the woman Ngai-ti (Loved One).
Soon the sister gave birth, and the old elfin woman minded the baby while its parents were away at work.
The old woman, who was a witch, disliked the infant's squalling, and one day took it to a place where nine roads met, cut it to pieces, and scattered its blood and body about.
The chief, chagrined at being defeated by a woman, beat his head against the Heavenly Bamboo with the aim of wreaking vengeance on his enemies and killing himself.
The two boys, being very hungry, went and found a house where an old woman lived with her own daughter and a foster-daughter.
As everyone else in the world had perished and the subsiding waters allowed farming again, the woman decided to marry her daughters to the boys, her own going to the cleverer boy.
The second boy maliciously told the woman that the other boy could quickly gather millet grains scattered on sand.
The woman tested this claim, and the first boy despaired of ever succeeding, when the ants came to his aid, filling the grain bag in a few minutes.
The other boy had watched, and he told the woman that the task hadn't been done by the first boy himself, so the woman still couldn't decide which daughter to marry to which boy.
A mosquito came and told the Son of the Tree which room the old woman's daughter was in, so those two were married, and the second boy married the foster-daughter.
Gim was rescued and hidden by an old woman; he was on the island of the robbers but was helpless from his injuries.
They went to an old woman's home and were invited to spend the night, but the woman locked them in, and the men realized that she and her four sons were tigers in disguise.
The next day, the woman challenged them to a contest of gathering pine trees while her sons stacked them.
When it became clear that the four brothers ripped up the trees faster than the tigers could stack them, the woman set fire to the logs.
Santal (Bengal):When Pilchu Haram and Pilchu Budhi, the first man and woman, reached adolescence, fire-rain fell for seven days.
Seven years, seven months, and seven days after the woman became pregnant, she gave birth to a gourd.
The husband wanted to smash it, but the woman stopped him and placed it in the smoking-rack above the cooking fire.
Only one woman, Xnghi, and a dog escaped on the highest peak of Ngoc Linh Mountain.
One day the dog urinated on a spot where the woman had urinated earlier.
Of all creatures, the only survivors were two men and two women who had the fortune to be in a canoe when the flood came.
Not knowing what to do with it, they minced it up and scattered the pieces, and the pieces became men and women.
In another version of this legend, the survivors were the most righteous seven men and seven women, who crawled into the dry shell of a giant gourd and survived the flood floating in it.
Pitying the woman's loneliness, the moon told her that she would soon have companions.
However, Pirman had created a man and woman and placed them in a completely closed ship of pulai wood.
The couple bemoaned their lack of children, but in time the woman conceived in the calves of her legs, a male child coming from the right calf and a female from the left.
Atá (Philippines):Water covered the whole earth, and all the Atás drowned except two men and a woman who were carried far to sea.
Mandaya (Philippines):A great flood once drowned all the world's inhabitants except one pregnant woman.
All drowned except one woman, who survived through the fortunate chance that her hair got caught in a thorny tree as she drifted along on the tide.
The woman told him her story, and they returned to the beach and restored the population by knocking on the drowned people.
Dyak (Borneo):Some women gathered bamboo shoots, sat on a log, and began paring them.
Only a woman, dog, rat, and a few small creature survived.
The woman noticed that the dog had found shelter from the rain under a creeper warmed by the rubbing between the creeper and a tree in the wind.
The woman took the fire-drill for her mate and gave birth to a son called Simpang-impang.
Only a pregnant woman and a pregnant mouse escaped in a pig's trough, paddling with a pot-ladle.
After the waters had descended, the woman saw a sheaf of rice hanging from an uprooted tree which drifted ashore where she was standing.
The woman gave birth to a son, took him for her husband, and by him had a son and daughter who became mankind's ancestors.
The women hurriedly built a house and went inside, but Yurlunggur caused them to sleep.
Gunwinggu (northern Arnhem Land):The woman Gulbin traveled from the south, looking for a place to put herself as djang.
That snake made water rise, threatening to drown the woman, and at last the Snake came up and ate her.
The Fly and Sandfly women cried for their sister and beat her husband, driving him away.
When the women cried, rain fell heavily and continued falling for several weeks.
Women lost their grinding stones from their vagina when the flood washed them out to sea.
It was spreading inland, too, but Bird Women came from the east and restrained the waters with a barrier of roots of the ngalda kurrajong tree.
Later, he gave her to a woman to carry so he could search for his boomerang, and eventually he found it.
A terrible flood washed over the hills and killed the two women.
All people were destroyed except those whom Bunjil loved and fixed as stars in the sky, and a man and a woman who climbed a tall tree on a mountain, and from whom the present human race is descended.
All drowned except a man and two or three women who took refuge on a mud island near Port Albert.
He fell in love with one of the women.
Afraid of being alone with him, the woman dressed a log in her opossum rug so it looked like her, left it by the fire, and swam to the mainland.
The pelican returned and flew into a passion when the log dressed as a woman wouldn't answer him.
He began to paint himself white so that he might fight the woman's husband.
Two men named Tiu and Reti, a woman named Wai-puna-hau, and other women also boarded the raft.
Only one old woman received them kindly.
The woman, fast asleep, drifted until her hair caught on a tree on the top of Mount Armlimui.
So one of the women-folk from heaven entered the body and restored it to life.
The gods begat five children by the old woman and then returned to heaven, as did the goddess who restored her to life.
Seven friendly gods, who went searching for him, were met with unkindness except from the woman Milathk, who told them of the death.
Two tribes were destroyed completely--one consisting entirely of women and the other with tails like dogs.
Nanumanga (Tuvalu, South Pacific):A deluge was dispelled by a sea serpent who, as a woman, married the earth as a man.
The woman brought forth two children, a son and a daughter, but grieved about the lack of food.
Hawaii:Lalohona, a woman from the depths of the sea, was enticed ashore by Konikonia with a series of images.
They copulated, and their offspring included the world's first women.
Afterwards, the survivor smote the ground with his stick, a woman sprung out, and the two of them repopulated the world.
Raven had put a woman under the world to govern the tides.
Once he wished to see the undersea world, and he caused the woman to raise the waters so that he might do so while remaining dry.
One woman with an infant in her arms said, "If they want a little girl, why not take this one of mine?" The rich young man heard her, extended his paddle and told her to put the infant on it, and placed the infant next to him in the canoe.
Turning to the infant, he found that she had become a radiant woman.
A crowd of men emerged from the hole in the pike, and women came out of the loach.
Sarcee (Alberta):The world was flooded, and one man and one woman survived on a raft on which they collected all kinds of animals and birds.
Haida (Queen Charlotte Is., British Columbia):A strange woman wearing an unusual fur cape came to a village.
The parents told the children not to laugh, and the woman sat by the water's edge at low tide.
The tide kept rising, following the woman.
This raven, Ne-kil-stlas, was a person who could don and doff his feathers at will; he had been born of a woman who had had no husband.
Of the Hailtzuk only two men, a woman, and a dog survived.
One of the men landed at Ka-pa, one at another village site, and the woman and dog at Bella-Bella.
The Bella-Bella Indians descended from the marriage of the woman and dog.
The woman pulled out the arrow, and the water rushed forth in a torrent.
(In variant versions, the woman was seized by a giant fish or water animal.
The men worked day and night to make this canoe, the biggest ever, and the women made a long rope of oiled cedar fibers with which they tied the canoe to a giant rock.
All living things were destroyed except one woman and one dog, which survived atop Tacobud (Mt.
When they saw a third flood coming, they put the bravest young men and fairest young women in the canoe, with plenty of food.
Soon after, his companion smoked for three days and created a house from which a woman emerged.
The next morning, each pair of feathers had turned into a man and a woman.
They split one of his legs to make a woman.
The women fixing the food complained, and Tiuna said he didn't like Igupa Topa either.
Next morning, he brought the women and children to life with his rose-twig and took them to Damhauja's home.
Salinan (California):The old woman of the sea, jealous of Eagle's power, came with her basket in which she carried the sea.
The sea stopped rising, and the old woman died.
Eagle shaped the first people, a woman and two men, from elder-wood.
Havasupai women are called "Daughters of the Water".
The feathers sprouted and flourished, turning into men and women.
Two women and two men jumped into a boat when they saw the water coming, and they were the only people saved.
Later, they created an old man, a dog, a man, and a woman.
Timagami Ojibway (Canada):Nenebuc, son of the Sun and a mortal woman, saw some lions in a great lake.
(The cave may still be seen in a bluff west of Smoothwater Lake.) Nenebuc donned the skin of a toad, disguised himself as a medicine-woman, and was admitted to the lioness.
It was an Indian woman.
The Great Spirit put the last rib from the woman into a clay figure and likewise created a man.
Wenebojo prepared two arrows by rubbing them on the lips of women having their first menses.
Later, Wenebojo encountered an old woman carrying basswood bark.
The underground people took their chiefs to a wigwam and sent for an old woman to heal them.
Manabush followed, took the old woman's skin and disguised himself in it.
Caddo (Oklahoma, Arkansas):A woman gave birth to four monsters.
Ti-ra-wa then created a man and woman, like people of today, and gave them corn.
In time, the men and women argued and decided to live apart.
But both groups engaged in unnatural sex acts, and eventually the women were starving, so they got back together.
Dios told an old man and old woman that it would rain forty days and nights.
When people still lived in the underworld, the chief, after an argument with his mother-in-law, decided that men and women should live apart for awhile, so the men all moved to the other side of a river, and the chief prayed to Kogulhtsude (a water spirit) to widen the river.
The women's farms became less and less productive, and they began to go hungry.
Some people were drowned and turned into frogs and fish; the other men and women escaped together to a tall mountain.
He drew a cross and placed magic parcels at the east and west points, and his song brought forth from them two women, Utset, the mother of all Indians, and Nowutset, the mother of all other races.
Spider also created rain, thunder, lightning, and rainbow, and the women made the sun, moon, and stars.
Nowutset was the stronger but duller of the two women, and she lost a contest of rules.
He also rescued a pregnant woman and her child.
He created a handsome youth to go among the Pimas, wed their women, and beget children, staying with each wife only until his first child was born.
When people became corrupt and warlike a third time, Sotuknang guided the ones who had retained their wisdom to Spider Woman, who cut down giant reeds and sheltered the people in the hollow stems with a little water and food.
Finally, they came to rest on a small piece of land, and Spider Woman unsealed their reeds and pulled them out by the tops of their heads.
The last of these was large and fruitful, and people wanted to stay there, but Spider Woman urged them on.
Spider Woman and the Spider Clan, however, urged them to go on, and all the clans used their powers to try to melt and bread down the mountain.
Sotuknang told Spider Woman that if they had succeeded, the melted snow and ice would have flooded the world.
Yaitowi, a just and perfect man who walked with Dios, was saved, along with thirteen others and eleven women, on the hill of Parbus (today called Maatale).
After the flood, God sent three men and three women to repopulate the earth.
The old woman, who had sat upon the box with a macaw during the flood, turned to wind and disappeared.
He spied one day and found that the bitch took off her skin and became a woman to do the work.
She whined like a dog, but he bathed her in nixtamal water, and she remained a woman.
Cora (east of the Huichols):As in the Huichol myth, a woodman was warned of a coming flood by a woman.
Only a man named Coxcox (some call him Teocipactli) and a woman named Xochiquetzal survived in a small bark.
She complained, but she remained a woman, and the two of them repopulated the world.
Makiritare (Venezuela):The Star people listened to Jaguar and killed and ate a woman.
Next, Makunaima created man, and after the man had fallen asleep, he awoke to find a woman beside him.
One man and one woman were saved on the high mountain called Tamanacu, on the banks of the Asiveru.
People sprung from the kernels of these fruits, men from those thrown by the man, and women from those thrown by the woman.
According to some Jivaro, the flood was survived by a man and woman, who took refuge in a cave on a high mountain along with samples of all the various animal species.
To find its source, one of the brothers hid himself and saw two parrots with the faces of women enter their hut and prepare the food.
He did so, met the woman, and followed her underwater to her father's house.
The woman's mother gave him an aphrodisiac, and he became her husband.
Being alone, he cut off a piece of his flesh and planted it; from this grew a woman, whom he married.
The man saw that they were beautiful and had faces of women, and he came out of hiding.
No one offered him a drink while he sat there, until at the end of the day a woman finally did so.
Paria Caca told the woman that these people had made him mad, told her that in five days something terrible would happen to the village, and warned her to take her family away and not to tell anyone else, or he might kill her, too.
Five days later, the woman and her family left.
All created things perished, except for a man and woman who floated in a box.
Toba (Northern Argentina):Rainbow does not like menstruating women to enter the water, or even to drink from it.
One day a young woman broke this taboo because her mother and sisters didn't leave her any drinking water when they left for the day.
This happened at the time of Yáiaasága, when men seized power from the women.
Men have ruled women since then.
The moon-woman Hánuxa caused the flood because she was full of hatred against the people, especially the men, who had taken over the women's secret kina ceremony and made it their own.
When a person states their clan lineage, they confirm their identity as a man or woman within the Navajo tradition.