Eve cults?

Question

Does anyone know if any groups exist that worship and/or revere Eve?

Please note that I am not asking for your opinion on such a thing, or your opinion of me for asking. Just want to know if anyone knows if there are any. Thanks.

Answer 1

Yes, there were gnostic groups that revered Eve as a revealer of knowledge to Adam, they possessed a 'Gospel of Eve'

It begins...
I stood upon a high mountain and saw a tall man, and another of short stature, and heard something like the sound of thunder and went nearer in order to hear. Then he spoke to me and said: I am thou and thou art I, and wherever thou art, there am I, and I am sown in all things; and whence thou wilt, thou gatherest me, but when thou gatherest me, then gatherest thou thyself

In another gnostic work it says of Eve
After the day of rest, Sophia sent her daughter Zoe, being called Eve, as an instructor, in order that she might make Adam, who had no soul, arise, so that those whom he should engender might become containers of light. When Eve saw her male counterpart prostrate, she had pity upon him, and she said, "Adam! Become alive! Arise upon the earth!" Immediately her word became accomplished fact. For Adam, having arisen, suddenly opened his eyes. When he saw her, he said, "You shall be called 'Mother of the Living'. For it is you who have given me life."

Hope you like these quotes, the gnostic writings are full of stuff about Eve that make me wonder which cult I'd have joined if I lived back then, I would have been tempted ;)

Answer 2

I do not know of any. But I am Catholic and the way in which we honor Mary is something that i think does honor Eve also because Mary is the Mother of Christ and therefore also the Mother of the Church and the Mother of Salvation while Eve is obviously the Mother of humanity. I have never even heard of the worship of Eve but there is a lot I do not know.

Answer 3

No, not really, just some pseuds ....

1. The Cult of the New Eve (CoNE)
A faux cult that relates to the Human Genome Project, which is based on the DNA of a single woman - the new Eve.
http://www.critical-art.net/biotech/cone/coneWeb/welcome/bg1.html
http://world-information.org/wio/program/objects/993058052/993058101

2. Individual reverence
Read Jessica Wilkinson's webpage about Eve.
http://www.hostville.com/jessica/eve.htm

3. The Mormons have a different view of her.
"THE CHURCH of JESUS CHRIST of Latter-day Saints strongly affirms that in partaking of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, Eve along with Adam acted in a manner pleasing to God and in accord with his ordained plan"
http://www.lightplanet.com/mormons/basic/bible/eve.html

4. A feminist inspiration
The leading radical feminist magazine that developed out of the women's liberation movement in the UK was called Spare Rib.
http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/F/flourbombs/essay.html

5. Cult prints
Eve just wanted to know ....
http://www.cafepress.com/cultprints/1531939

6. Christian Identity - an anti-Eve cult
"A small, racist, radical group within Christianity which has adopted a belief similar to that of British Israelism. They teach that the ten lost tribes of Israel became the Anglo-Saxon race. Many Identity groups teach that Eve engaged in sexual relations with the serpent in the Garden of Eden, and that the Jews were the product of that union."
http://www.religioustolerance.org/gl_c.htm

Answer 4

I have never heard of an Eve cult and a Google search came up with nothing.

Answer 5

Not that I've ever heard of. I have heard tell of a cult that reveres Lilith, though.

)O(

Answer 6

oddly, i have found a few that use her as a diety figure.

the trifecta is Eve - the pure virgin , mary - the matron - and lilith the old crone.

Answer 7

no.