why most of the gods are male in gender?

Answer 1

hmm!
http://www.godchecker.com/ does indeed currently list 1749 male gods but only 937 goddesses! more research is called for, clearly! since this leaves the gender of the remaining 194 listed deities undecided.

Answer 2

What particular culture are you drawing from here? There are gods and goddesses all over history, and I would not want to have to add them all up and declare which is more plentiful. For one thing, do you count Venus and Aphrodite as one goddess or two?

But even if you grant that there are more males, on the whole, than females, the reason is clear enough: males can be used to symbolize things that are true of both males and females, whereas it is seldom true that a female symbol will serve the same purpose, because men have a harder time identifying with female images than women do of male images.

A woman can say, as with a Tarot deck, "Well, it's called the Hanged Man, but I know it could apply to me." A man, on the other hand, looking at a card like the Star, invariably a female, often naked, has a great deal of trouble identifying with it.

In a way, it is the same reason that masculine is the default pronoun, rather than feminine.

Answer 3

YANG: The Male Principle of the Universe, and perfect opposite of YIN. Together they make the famous Yin-Yang symbol of DAOist thought.
So there is no GOD either as a male or female. Only GODLINESS IS. God is a NO-THING in it's real sense.

Answer 4

Gods are made in 'man's image.' Unless it's an emotional, changeable feature like the weather, love. Though Diana was the Goddess of the hunt. It's like now how men have most of the good, better paying, important jobs. You think things were any different back then?

Answer 5

The Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Norse, and Aztecs had female gods. There are female gods in Hinduism. In fact, when you consider the whole history of religion, exclusively male gods are the exception.

Answer 6

One of my professors told me that if you do not know if a "god" of a certain culture is referred to as male or female then it is culturally correct to refer to it as he/male. Referring to a God as "He" does not limit that God to a gender specific.

Answer 7

Hera, Aphrodites, Nike and Nemesis would disagree. They were female gods. And the greek capitol of Athens was named after Athena

Answer 8

Because women get pissed off if you tell stories about them. Men just shrugg it off as a joke, especially as the mature. How many smitings of blasphemers have you seen God doing lately. Now compare that to the acts of Hera or Athena.

Answer 9

The gender of god is in fact just the state of the way you where raised in your belief

Answer 10

1)males have ruled history--at least the recording and formal formation thereof (the "woman behind the man" notwhithstanding), due , for the most part, to the fact that they can physically overpower females. And when technological innovations are not in effect as equalizing factors (as they have not been throughout history) those with the greatest physical prowess dominate.
2)People tend to be self-centered,.Therefore, those who are "in charge" tend to envision ultimate power (i.e. God) as representations of themselves...therefore, men (dominant)
have (in many cases) been in charge of determining the nature of God, and due to the self-centeredness of mankind, have identified that position as one of masculinity, which they themselves have equated with the power they have classically possessed (with relation to the feminine power).
However, many cultures have, in fact, equated feminine power with the absolute for other reasons: the power to gidue , in large part, to the fact that they can physically overpower females, and when technological innovations are not in effect as equalizing factors (as they have not been, throughout history) male power predominates due to physical prowess.
However, many cultures have equated ultimate power (God) with feminine energy, due to the "life-giving" and nurturuing role associated with femininity: see "Gaia", etc. For example, much of Asian religion/adopts the form of Yin/Yang, which could be described in terms of continuous and equal interaction between universal dominant and submissive energies which, in turn, results in the manifestations of energies which form reality (matter/energy). A good book to read would be "Dance of the Wu Lee Maters", by Zukov.