Culmination or Afterthought

I had a discussion with my college sweetheart (many years ago).

Quite smitten with her charms, I was waxing philosophic about how she had attained them. As a starting point, I posited their origins in the archetypes of the Creation narrative.

"Woman is the most perfect creation, " I began.

"Why's that?," she said.

"Because God thought about woman longer than any other creature He created. She's the culmination of creation. She perfects creation because, until she was in it, creation was incomplete."


Proving that women are not the "gushers" that men are, she 
answered: "You've got it wrong. Woman was an afterthought. She wasn't even going to happen until the man got lonely, and God had 
to come up with something quick to make him happy 
so he wouldn't stop naming all the stuff God had created up 'til 
then. Think about it, the woman was made with borrowed parts. Woman isn't what God thought about longest. But, I will grant 
she's what He decided to make last."

I liked my idea better, and still do. But she likely had a better understanding of the story, at least as she saw it shaping her reality.

I read somewhere (sorry I can't remember where or by whom) that Romanticism spawns tyranny (Napoleon by early Romantic thought; Hitler by later German Romanticism.) Maybe that's why liberated women aren't readily seduced by romantic notions.

And now (sometime after I posted my original musings) I want to share some of the musings of others (including John Milton: the great "witness of the Fall":

"O fairest of creation! last and best
Of all God's works! creature in whom excelled
Whatever can to sight or thought be formed,
Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet!
How art thou lost, how on a sudden lost,
Defaced, deflowered, and now to Death devote?"

And further considerations of the downfall that by God's mercy has become our salvation:
"Oh, when this world comes to an end/ We'll be the secret in His hand/ Nothing's lost in His creation/ Nothing's lost and nothing's won."  (Lyrics in a song played in the movie "An Eye for Beauty" - Canada- 2014)