ABSTRACT
The myth of Pandora is a variant of well-known theme in myths of origins the world over. How and why woman came into the world accounts for the fact that there are not one, but two sexes. Logically, both male and female should come into existence at the same time as the human species is created. Each is the complement of the other, each indispensable to the other’s identity. As a pair, they attest to the universal fact of gender in nature and assure reproduction of one’s own kind.
