Reading through Frye, I found it interesting to read his description of the difference between the myths of the "earth-mother" account of creation and the "sky-father" account. The former is often associated with a sexual creation story, while the latter, at least in the case of the Bible, focuses on a historical process - which Frye says goes against a sense of "all cyclical conceptions of reality."

Frye goes on to note, however, that in J's original account, there actually was a kind of a mother, which is seen through examining the figure of the garden of Eden. The sexual representation of "watering the garden" and the Hebrew word "adamah" - which means dust, though is also feminine - suggests to Frye that originally they was a Mrs. God, as Professor Sexton likes to put it. An interesting idea.