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When the lion has his historian, the hunter will no longer be the hero

JEZEBEL 

MEANING:noun: A shameless, wicked, or immoral woman.
ETYMOLOGY:After Jezebel, the wife of King Ahab in the Old Testament, who was defenestrated and killed for not worshiping the right god. Earliest documented use: 1558.


Just as an African proverb has it, "When the lion has his historian, the hunter will no longer be the hero", Jezebel's name too is tarnished because the account of her life and death was composed by male writers, whose patriarchal religion came to replace a matriarchal sensitivity in human thought.

 History belongs to the victors, and Judaism trumped the Phoenician god Baal. Jezebel, great-aunt of Queen Dido of Carthage, has been vilified because the Phoenicia-Israel alliance through her dynastic marriage to Ahab was hated, though it led to the land-locked Israel's reach for the Mediterranean coast. From Wikipedia: In feminist readings of the Bible and of later Jewish and Christian traditions, Jezebel is seen as a strong and assertive woman, who was attacked and finally murdered by the fanatic male representatives of a male-dominated religion. They interpret her memory as vilified for thousands of years for the same reason i.e. "because she was a strong and independent woman who did not let men dominate her, and who continued to defy the aggressive males to her last breath."

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