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Lilith & Eve

Created alongside Adam, Lilith leaves him and Eden after she refuses to be subservient to him. For her desertion, angels murder her newborn children because a god tells them to. Lilith goes on to build herself a home free from kings, princes, and nobles, and instead surrounds herself with jackals, wildcats, and owls. She continues on to have a successful career in killing babies (sanctioned earlier by a god) and creating monsters. She also learns to fly.

Born from his rib, Eve finds Adam's lack of ambition to be dull. She seeks higher education via a Fruit and pushes Adam to seek it too. Banished by a god for wanting betterment, Eve and Adam leave Eden. Adam yells at her the entire time. They proceed to have some kids, one of whom murders the other. After 900-ish years, Adam lies on his deathbed. Eve seeks aid from the angels to help him. They refuse. Eve returns empty-handed and Adam yells at her again. He dies, miserable and hating his partner. She dies days later.

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A pithos is one of those old-fashioned Greek jars

According to Greek Myth and Hesiod's writings, Pandora was the first human woman. Hesiod describes her as a punishing gift from Zeus to the thriving human society of the time, a consequence of Prometheus having stolen fire for their sake.

The gods collaborated to create the punishment that was to be Pandora. With certainly nothing but great malice, Hephaestus molded her from earth and water and the Four Winds breathed life into her; Athena adorned her in fine clothing and a crown of silver before instructing her in needlework and weaving; Aphrodite shed grace and immensurable beauty upon her head; Hermes conjured within her a sharp, ambitious mind and witty, articulate speech.

With all of these clearly hateful gifts given to her by the Olympians themselves, Pandora went to humanity with a pithos containing one hundred plagues. Upon Zeus' order, she opened this pithos and all but one of the plagues were released - only hope remained, in the pithos carried by Pandora.

There is one major fact we can acertain from Hesiod's telling of Pandora: since she was the first woman created in an already flourishing society of men, a time described by Hesiod as "the Golden Age", the humans before her, and likely Hesiod himself, were