Also I keep seeing Gnostic ideas about how Eve is only Adam’s equal if god made her out of clay too, but then it seems contradictory to me that Christ should be his mother’s superior, because Eve is also in a symbolic child of the union of human and god, rather than a base creation of clay, she is a refinement of a refinement, and the daughter of a union between the mortal imperfect material and the true god (much like Christ), she would be less removed from the divine, not more.
God I love rambling about this.
Also if you think about the chicken and the egg question in this particular light, you realize that the rooster (an earthly animal, they almost never symbolize a divine anything) comes first, lays the cosmic symbolically rich egg (which are often symbols for the birth of the universe, fertility in general and basically are clearly divine) and the unnatural liminal state of the rooster being a mother allows for the supernatural and holy nature of the egg (like a virgin birth) which allows the egg to hatch the mystical and life giving universal and original hen, who in turn gives birth to all mundane chickens thereafter.
It’s late and I’m enjoying this too much, but I just love the perfect (and yet utterly unprovable and obviously loopy) internal consistency of the logic.
Thoughts From The Peacock Angel 