He is the reason that creation
is.
He is the life form through which
the creator god expresses
His dominion.
In sum, all life forms
are part
of the Lone Male human web of existence.
Lone Male human life is not part of nature
or a natural web, rather, anything considered “natural” is
but a subordinated part of a super-natural web which is, so
it is revealed, an expression of Lone Male spiritual intimacy.
In
this light, it is
significant that the female is the last to
be created. She is an intimate after-thought. An, "Oops!
How are we to make babies? Hmmm."
In contrast, in other creation stories,
if it is the Great Spider who creates, then your body
is part of the fuller body of all life around you.
Humanity is part of a complex and diverse web of living things. If
the creator is a Mother and Father God—even if one or both is
rendered in animal form—then you are part of a clan or tribe,
one which has clear and definite connections to the animal world. Through
these creation stories males and females are given an interior
identity, and the scope of their intimate heartfelt actions
corresponds to those found within a relationship from
which the tribe, clan, nation, etc., can grow, that is, form family/kin
relationships. You are related to the world and to the whole of creation
because you are part of—even though not exactly identical with—all
other creatures. In one sense, what is common to all animals and humans
is that all have skin. Skin is evidence that
each one was born.
With Genesis, a divine creator conjures
the created “out of nothing,” out of the
void. It is all “Let there be …”
This is not a birthing story. Immediately,
you know that this creator exists outside of and before the creation.
The creating act then has no analogies or
metaphorical links to the created’s world. Whoever this creator
is, “it” is not linked to the
created world by any necessity or “natural” bond. It is
not family. It is not
a divine body. It is not-skin.
Continue—Skin
