Why does the White Witch think she can kill Aslan?
In the Christian Bible Pontius Pilate killed Jesus because he did not recognize Jesus' divinity. However, the White Witch saw Aslan create Narnia. She understood that Aslan is the Creator. So why does she think that he could die?
I think the answer has to do with the asymmetry between Creation and Destruction.
But let's think about it a bit more bbefore we go on...
Why, Daughter of Eve, that's what I brought you here for.
I'm to lead you where you shall meet him...
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
The creatures of Narnia look at their foreign visitors and ask what to the creatures is the most important of questions, "Are you a daughter of Eve?" It is the first question Tumnus asks Lucy, it is the musing of Trumpkin when presented with Eustace and Jill, it is moniker Mr. Beaver gives to Susan in the above quote. And perhaps what is most confusing, the children do not realize what it means.
Well, what does it mean?
On its surface the question of Tumnus is simply one of species identification. Are you really that species descended from Adam and Eve who I supposed to be looking out for. Perhaps instead you are a small giant or one of the jinn? Lucy, unsure why anyone would confuse a human for anything else, is understandably not able to process the question.
But, as we see with Tumnus, there is more to the question, though perhaps at this point himself does not realize. Are you a Daughter of Eve? A descendant of the woman who, on the one hand, brought sin to the world, but is yet, "Little less than divine. (Psalms 8:5)" Are you of the kind that tore creation asunder, but is still a creator yourself, "the mother of all life (Genesis 3:20)"? Do you understand that coming from the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve, "That is both honor enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth."
For only when you do, can you face the one God, the Divine Presence, the Creator of All.
Aslan brings the children to Narnia to get to know him, but to do that they first need to know themselves and where they come from.
