ANOTHER GREEK WORD

I'm definitely starting to sound like the Dad in "MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING".
PARTHENOGENESIS-greek for virgin creation. Cool eh? Maybe that should be...oh never mind.

Anyway-it's the asexual reproduction without fertilization by a male. It happens in nature-dragons, parasitic wasps, scorpions, bees...some birds, sharks.

The ancient Egyptians wrote about this-
the female produces an egg that does not need to be fertilized...what if the female is born with this in her-the seed of the next coming-and not something that happens from outside-like from the wind, or the 'overshadowing' of anything. Whoa. That takes the role of these quite special vessels to another level doesn't it?

It is true, the children of virgin births are usually male. It could be because of a mostly patriarchial society by the time the stories were recorded.

What I find interesting is this, follow the mythology:

If Astarte was the predecessor of Ishtar, and there was temple of Ishtar at Magdala, and Mary Magdalene was purported to have been trained as the High Priestess in the Temple of Ishtar ...the Egyptian Isis traditions...and called the keeper of the doves... hmmmmm .... just curious is all ...

"...Long ago her name was ISIS, Queen of the benevolent springs, COME TO ME ALL YOU WHO LABOUR AND ARE HEAVY LADEN AND I WILL GIVE YOU REST. Others knew her as MAGDALENE with the celebrated vase full of healing balm. The initiated know her to be NOTRE DAME DES CROSS."
- Le Serpent Rouge

"...The [Gnostic] Gospel of Mary depicts Mary Magdalene (never recognized as an apostle by the orthodox) as the one favored with visions and insight that far surpass Peter's. The Dialogue of the Savior praises her not only as a visionary, but as the apostle who excels all the rest. She is the 'woman who knew the All'."
- Elaine Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels

To me, and this is just me, ruminating here, I would say that the 'myth' of a virgin birth is supposed to show the status of that particular 'male', right? That is to say, their unique and special singulation, and oh so much more special than mere women.