Pandoras Box

This is the classic story of curiosity killing the cat. A man and his wife are entrusted with the keeping of this magical box by the gods, but they are also instructed never to open it to look inside. This sound familiar? Well the parallels between this and Eden don’t stop there. Pandora, the man’s wife, just can’t take the suspense anymore and one day when she is alone at home she opens the box. Unbeknownst to the poor girl, the flimsy latch on the face of the box was the only thing keeping all the evils of the world in check, and her insubordination has let them all out. Her and her husband suffer terribly, much as Adam and Eve do following their expulsion from paradise, until there is some resolution which I can’t recall. 

                Many early civilizations share similar stories especially concerning events core to human existence like creation, destruction, or morality. Both of these stories deal with the presence of evil and how it is the fault of man, women moreso, that it is so.  It would be very interesting to examine a similar story from an eastern perspective, to gain some insight as to whether the woman-hating is uniquely western in the early days of man.