04-26-2021, 08:38 PM
(04-26-2021, 07:09 PM)Steppingfeet Wrote: So I understand you to mean "Creator," essentially, just with a feminine tilt. While "Creator" is gender-neutral, thanks to the West's Abrahamic past, it is likely seen with a male hue. (I don't know how much gender bias is projected onto ultimate reality in Eastern thought, or elsewhere.)
"Creatrix" is a colorful change, and I like how for me it evokes both the active Creative Principle and the receptive matrix or environment into which Its glory manifests.
If you think about it, new humans are created from woman, customarily with a small contribution from a man. Same goes for other critters. In the West, Nature is presented as a female, but in the best known Near Eastern scriptures, the god figure and Creator is a male deity.
In what we call Hinduism, there are layers of meaning. The Creator God is a male, Brahma. He gazes inwardly and finds in there Creation. When he opens his eyes, a universe appears and when he closes his eyes it dissolves....and when he opens them.....on and on.
But Creation herself is feminine, known to us Maya. This comes from the root maa, which means, "to measure" or, for our purposes, "that which can be measured." In other words, limited phenomenal stuff as compared to limitless light.
In addition, there is Brahman, neither male nor female, which is unmanifest: Maya at rest, if you will. So, Brahman/Maya are have the same conceptual relationship as Intelligent Infinity and Intelligent Energy. One is the infinite potential, the other is the ever unfolding creative manifestation. One is eternal, but totally boring, while the other "has a life," as we say these days.