The original Greek says "from his side", those words imply she was next to him, with him.. not from a rib.
This rediculous mis-translation to "from his literal rib" has served to constrain Eve's (and women's) origin story into a minimized, subservient, patriarchal (male only) world view. The reality is much more interesting, she was a partner in battle, a trip sitter, a vital assistant in Adam's initiatory rite!
Women did not come from men! This is ridiculous and nonsensical. And would require some super natural intervention (and belief in a fairy tale) or advanced genetic engineering (not likely).
If anything, men come from women (not controversial, that's how nature works).
Of course, it was a massive mistranslation, as we will see below
Pleura (πλευρά), Side
2. pl., generally, side of a man or animal, “ἄλλοτ᾽ ἐπὶ πλευρὰς κατακείμενος, ἄλλοτε δ᾽ αὖτε ὕπτιος” Il.24.10; of both sides, “ἀνὰ πλευράς τε καὶ ὤμους” 23.716; “οὐρῇ δὲ πλευράς τε καὶ ἰσχία ἀμφοτέρωθεν μαστίεται” 20.170, cf. Hes.Sc.430, A.Pr.71, Eu.843 (lyr.): sg., also, of one side, S.OC1260, Aj.834, etc.; a side of beef, etc., PCair.Zen.381.5 (iii B.C., written πλερά): the pl. form is v.l. in E.Hec.826.II. side, of things and places, “νηὸς πλευραί” Thgn.513; “χωρίου” Pl.Sis.388e; [Πακτωλοῦ] D.P. 833; of an army, “αἱ π. τοῦ πλαισίου” X.An.3.4.22, cf. 28, Plu.Mar. 25, etc.; “παρὰ π. τινὶ εἶναι” Plb.5.26.6; παρὰ π., opp. κατὰ κεφαλήν, IG22.463.72
III. Math., side of a triangle or other figure, Antipho Soph.13, Pl.Ti.53d, 54c, etc.: esp.
b. side of a rectangle, ib.36c: hence, one factor of any product, Id.Tht.148a, Arist. Metaph.1051a26, Euc.7 Def.17, etc.
c. side of a square of cube, and root of a square of cubic number, Id.8.11, 12, Theol.Ar.11; κυβικὴ π. cube root, Ph.Bel.52.4.
d. generator of a cone or cylinder, Archim.Sph.Cyl.1.8, 12.
II. twice in Hom., in pl., side, “πλευρὰ . . οὔτησε ξυστῷ” Il. 4.468, cf. 11.437, Hdt.9.22,72, A.Fr.210, S.Tr.833(lyr.), E.Or.223, etc.; “π. δελφάκεια” Pherecr.108.16: also in sg., Diog.Apoll.6, Pherecr. 45.5, S.OC1112; “π. ὕειον” Hermipp.45; “καπριδίου” Ar.Fr.506.
III. of places, π. νεῶν side of the entrenchment where the ships lay, S.Aj. 874; τὸ δεξιὸν π. the right flank (of an army), X.Cyr.6.3.34, etc.
This ancient text shows the use of pleuras in a biblical context, by other contemporary writers ~300 years after time of the bible authors.
Epiphanius of Salamis wrote the Panarion (also known as Against Heresies) between 374 and 377 CE while serving as bishop of Salamis (on Cyprus).
8. And their books are many. For in some Questions of Mary certain things are set forth; others are attributed to the previously mentioned Ialdabaōth; and many books are also ascribed to the name of Sēth. They also speak of other Revelations of Adam, and they have dared to compose different gospels in the name of the disciples. And they are not ashamed to say that our lord of the realm Jesus Christ himself revealed this disgraceful act.
For in the so-called Great Questions of Mary (for they have also fabricated Lesser ones), they assert that he reveals it to her — having taken her up into the mountain, prayed, and brought a woman that was by his side, and began to have intercourse with her. And thus — supposedly — having shared his emission with her, he showed her and said: “This must be done so that we may live.”
Context is clear, she wasn't literally produced from a rib (that'd be rediculous), but, from the side of him, that location of the rib, to the side of him while standing there.
boethos (βοηθόος) - supporter in battle
II. aiding, helping, Pi.N.7.33, B.Fr.34:—Subst., helper, prob. Id.12.103, Theoc.22.23, Call.Del.27:—in Prose βοηθός , όν, assisting, auxiliary, “νῆες” Th.1.45: c. dat., “ὁ τοῖς νόμοις β.” Lys.Fr.53.1; freq. as Subst., assistant, Hdt.5.77, 6.100, Antipho 1.2, Pl.R.566b, al.; “τῆς ἐπιτροπῆς” BGU1047iii 11 (ii A. D.); “τοῦ στρατηγοῦ” POxy.1469.10 (iii A. D.), etc.
Hasting to the cry for help or the call to arms. We're talking about a medicine woman, a savior of life during a visionary rite.
military/supportive connotation of βοηθός (boēthos) is well-documented, especially in classical and Hellenistic Greek.
βοηθός, ὁ, ἡI. one who comes to aid, an assistant, helper,especially in warfare, a reinforcement— e.g.:
So:
A supporter in a mystery initiation of symbolic death, will help the initiate survive their initiatory "battle with death" by bringing the battle cry of Life! (Zoe (Ζωή)).
If initiation sends them to the Aionic realm, symbolically dead, a shout of Ζωή rouses them back to life.
Eve (Eua) is the initiatory death support (Boethos) to Adam, as his soul is educated by the Ophis (ὄφις, serpent, cult name for temple guardian, aka Drakon), in the initiatory death (not by actual death), she shouts the battle cry Life! (Zoe (Ζωή)) to bring him back.
This κύριος was finishing Adam by educating his soul. He pulled her from his side. Jesus does the same thing when he offers semen to Mary in the woods (pulls her from his side, in Epiphanius of Salamis, Panarion 26.8 above).
“And the divine (Θεός) lord of the realm (Κύριος) said: it is not good for the human (ἄνθρωπον) to be alone; to make him a boēthos (βοηθὸν - a peer in battle; support; someone who rides next to you in battle) corresponding to his likeness.”
κύριος produces a boethon/boethos (βοηθὸν/βοηθὸς - someone to ride next to you in battle). Where is he going to get one for Adam to take from his side? From the amazons, an Amazon woman.
There’s a sense that Adam is awaiting a peer or co-warrior,
the helper he needs is a peer, martially suitable (brings their own reliability to fight with you in battle), not just a subordinate.
“And Adam called the names of all the cattle and birds of the sky and all the animals of the field; but for Adam no boēthos was found like him.”
This Amazonian woman. The Eua. She’s going to show she is Amazonian. Her Scythian roots. Eve was Amazonian. Skutha (Σκύθης).
καὶ ἐπέβαλεν ὁ Θεὸς ἔκστασιν ἐπὶ τὸν Ἀδὰμ, καὶ ὕπνωσε· καὶ ἔλαβεν μίαν τῶν πλευρῶν αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἀνεπλήρωσεν σάρκα ἀντ’ αὐτῆς.
The concept of a βοηθός as a co-combatant could resonate with cultural ideas of Amazonian women, who were legendary for their prowess in war and riding beside men in battle
Here's another use of "side", means side not rib. Though the puncture is located on/near his rib, that word pleuran (πλευρὰν) means side.
Jesus being stabbed and water pouring from his side
Even if pleuran (πλευρὰν) meant rib, the context is clear, that we're not casting ribs into people using bippity boppity boo magic. Rather, we're presenting a friend or an assistant, who was standing next to us.
Understanding the Garden of Eden as a mystery rite, makes the context of Eve's role as battle-support boethos (βοηθὸς) clear. Adam (Adamas) is being initiated / educated, into death (without actual death) using the thanasemon, and needs Eve's (Eua's) assistance and battlecry of LIFE! (Zoe (Zwh)) to bring him out of the timeless realm of divine Aionic Life (Ἀϊονικὴ ζωή) induced by the (temple guardian) Serpent/Ophis's rite.