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Adam and Eve
Adam and Eve
The ancestors of mankind - man and woman - were created "in the image and likeness of God" at the end of the sixth day of creation, and were given dominion over all the earth and living things.
Man was created in the image of God both in appearance and in character. God fashioned man from the “dust of the ground,” breathed life into his nostrils, and placed him in the Garden of Eden. Later, God put Adam to sleep, took one of his ribs and created from him the first woman - Eve, who became the wife of the first man. The fact that Eve was created from a rib taken from Adam meant that she would neither dominate him nor be humbled by him, but would be his equal, loved and protected by him. Part of himself, bone of his bones and flesh of his flesh, she was his second self. This spoke of how close and tender the connection between them should be.
Man created by God had majestic stature and impeccable proportions. His face, marked with a healthy blush, expressed contentment and joy. Adam was much taller than the modern inhabitants of the earth. Eve is slightly lower than Adam, noble and beautiful. The sinless couple did not wear any artificial clothing; like the angels, they were clothed in a blaze of light and glory. Now the process of creating the earth was completed.
Among the Garden of Eden were two special trees: the Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
The Tree of Life is a special tree planted by God in the middle of the Garden of Eden. It bears fruit 12 times a year, which gives eternal life, and has leaves for healing the nations. The fruits of the Tree of Life were not prohibited for man to eat in the Garden of Eden.
The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil was also planted by God in the middle of the Garden of Eden. It symbolizes knowledge, first of all, of ethical categories, the ability to consciously choose between Good and Evil.
The Lord allowed Adam to eat “from every tree in the garden” and only forbade him to eat the fruits of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, warning him that the consequence of disobedience would be death. God threatens Adam with death for disobedience.
The serpent, who “was more cunning than all the beasts of the field that the Lord God had created,” used tricks and cunning to convince Eve to try the fruit of the forbidden Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. The woman hesitated at first, but curiosity and desires to be like God took over and she succumbed to the serpent’s persuasion, violating the will of the Lord: “And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes and desirable because it gave knowledge.” . When she tasted the fruits, it seemed to her as if some life-giving force was pouring into her and leading her into the higher spheres of existence. Without fear, Eve picked and ate the fruit. Experiencing some strange, unnatural excitement, Eve picked fruit from the forbidden tree and went to look for her husband in the garden. She told him about her feelings, assuring him that she had not experienced any manifestations of God's displeasure, but, on the contrary, felt an extremely pleasant cheerfulness that had taken over her entire being. A terrible struggle was taking place in his soul. Adam decided to share her fate with Eve: if she had to die, they would die together. Eve standing before him was beautiful and as innocent in appearance as she had been before her disobedience. Her love for Adam became even more intense. He took the fruit and quickly ate it.
The offense was followed by punishment: the Serpent was cursed, deprived of arms and legs, and also doomed to crawl on his stomach and eat dust; a woman was determined to “bear children in illness” and be subordinate to her husband; the man was assigned to work with sorrow and by the sweat of his brow all the days of his life on the earth, which was “cursed for his sake.” People have ceased to be immortal and after death must return to the earth in the form of dust, from which Adam was created.
After this, God made clothes for people and sent man out of the Garden of Eden “to till the ground from which he was taken.” To prevent people from tasting the fruits of the Tree of Life, a cherub and a “flaming sword that turned around” were placed at the entrance.
Eve conceived and gave birth to Cain. Then Eve conceived again and gave birth to a second son, Abel. Then she gave birth to her daughter Avan.
Abel was a cattle breeder, and his brother Cain was a farmer. The conflict began with a sacrifice to God made by both brothers. Abel sacrificed the firstborn heads of his flock, and Cain sacrificed the fruits of the ground. God graciously accepted only Abel’s sacrifice, but did not despise Cain and his gift. Cain's sacrifice to the Lord was not made out of love, but out of negligence and was therefore rejected. There was no love in the soul of the sacrificer for the One who accepted the offering. Cain became very upset and his face fell. After this, Cain killed Abel.
After committing a crime, Cain is subjected to God's curse and expelled. At the same time, a ban was imposed on revenge on Cain himself. Cain took his sister Avan as his wife. The descendants of Abel and Cain died during the Flood.
At the age of 130, Adam and Eve had a third son, Seth. Eve gave birth to her third son, Seth, after Cain killed Abel and after God cursed Cain and his offspring. Seth lived 912 years and gave birth to a son, Enos. Various legends attribute the invention of writing to Seth, or to his children the invention of astronomy and other sciences. At the end of his life, Adam conveyed the secret teaching to Seth. Seth was the ancestor of Noah and thereby became one of the ancestors of all humanity. Seth is mentioned in the genealogy of Jesus Christ.
An asteroid discovered in 1876 is named after Eve.
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The first representatives of human civilization were about four meters tall.
Only two names have survived to this day, which is why the history of the creation of man raised so many questions.
When reading the Bible, one absurdity immediately catches your eye - in the book of Genesis it is written: “God created Adam and Eve... Eve gave birth to Adam two sons - Cain and Abel... Cain killed Abel and was expelled by God... Cain knew his wife, and she gave birth his son Enoch..."
Question: Where did Cain's wife come from?
Who gave birth to all these sons, where did all these women come from?
As the Guardian Angels explain, the story of the creation of man, set out in the Bible, has survived to this day in a greatly altered form. That's why all these inconsistencies arose. The real history of mankind is as follows.
Modern humans appeared on Earth 27,000 BC in Mesopotamia - the area between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in modern Iraq. (Now these places are semi-desert, but in those days it was the most beautiful and fertile place on Earth. It was called Eden, the Garden of Eden.)
The first modern people were short (up to 4 meters) Atlanteans who moved here from Atlantis. This group of people was united by the desire to create another civilization in a new paradise, more humane and more spiritually developed than the existing ones.
In particular, these people had a complete ban on killing and violence towards each other. Eden was considered a paradise not only because of its climate and nature. Human relations between the people living there were simply ideal, the very atmosphere in this region was imbued with kindness, love and benevolence.
The first sin on Earth is murder
Adam and Eve were not the first people on Earth. They appeared only 13,000 BC. The most ordinary people, who do not stand out among thousands of others.
Their names have been preserved in history for only one reason - they were responsible for the destruction of Eden. It was because of them that Heavenly punishment fell on the heads of people.
According to the Bible, the events happened as follows: Adam and Eve committed their first sin - they ate an apple from the forbidden tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil, God became angry and kicked them both out of Paradise.
In fact, the first human sin was not eating an apple at all, but murder. The son of Adam and Eve - Cain - killed his brother Abel.
People lived in heavenly conditions, did not need anything, and yet brother killed brother.
God became angry and destroyed Paradise. There was unbearable heat for forty days, all the plants in Eden burned, and the once flourishing region turned into a lifeless desert. God wanted to show people that no crime goes unpunished.
People were forced to leave the Mesopotamia region and go in search of new places.
Where did the legend of the apple come from?
The fact is that the original, the original Bible, has not survived to this day. More precisely, it exists, but is not yet available to people. The real Bible will be found in a few years.
The Bible that we use today was repeatedly rewritten and corrected to please the ruling kings and sovereigns.
We Russians understand how this is done. We have already encountered this in our own history. If necessary, historians can easily repaint white into black, and vice versa.
The Bible was edited very skillfully, with masterly touches. For example, the very first and main sin on Earth - murder - was replaced by eating an apple from the tree of Knowledge. It turned out that knowledge is a more serious crime than murder!
After this replacement, it became possible to commit murders with a Bible in hand. Remember history - numerous bloody wars in the name of God, the Inquisition, executions with the blessing of the Church...
Nobody, naturally, remembered that God punished all of humanity for one single death, depriving them of Paradise on Earth.
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Life expectancy on Earth at that time was about 900 years. Eve died at the age of 847 years, Adam lived 952 years (according to the Bible - 930 years).
The murder of Abel and the destruction of Eden occurred 12,000 BC. Adam and Eve were no longer alive by that time.
Adam and Eve- the first people created by God on earth.
The name Adam means man, son of the Earth. The name Adam is often identified with the word man. The expression “sons of Adam” means “sons of men.” The name Eve is the giver of life. Adam and Eve are the progenitors of the human race.
A description of the life of Adam and Eve can be read in the first book of the Bible - in chapters 2 - 4 (audio recordings are also available on the pages).
Creation of Adam and Eve.
Alexander Sulimov. Adam and EveAdam and Eve were created by God in His likeness on the sixth day of creation. Adam was created "from the dust of the ground." God gave him a soul. According to the Jewish calendar, Adam was created in 3760 BC. e.
God settled Adam in the Garden of Eden and allowed him to eat fruit from any tree except the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Adam had to cultivate and maintain the Garden of Eden, and also give names to all the animals and birds created by God. Eve was created as Adam's helper.
The creation of Eve from Adam's rib emphasizes the idea of the duality of man. The text of Genesis emphasizes that “it is not good for man to be alone.” The creation of a wife is one of God’s main plans - to ensure a person’s life in love, for “God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.”
The first man is the crown of the world created by God. He has royal dignity and is the ruler of the newly created world.
Where was the Garden of Eden?
We are already accustomed to the appearance of sensational reports that the place where the Garden of Eden was located has been found. Of course, the location of each “discovery” is different from the previous one. The Bible describes the area around the garden, and even uses recognizable place names, such as Ethiopia, and the names of four rivers, including the Tigris and Euphrates. This led many, including Bible scholars, to conclude that the Garden of Eden was located somewhere in the Middle East region known today as the Tigris-Euphrates River Valley.
Today, there are several versions of the location of the Garden of Eden, none of which has solid evidence.
Temptation.
It is unknown how long Adam and Eve lived in the Garden of Eden (according to the Book of Jubilees, Adam and Eve lived in the Garden of Eden for 7 years) and were in a state of purity and innocence.
The serpent, who “was more cunning than all the beasts of the field that the Lord God had created,” used tricks and cunning to convince Eve to try the fruit of the forbidden Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Eve refuses, citing God, who forbade them to eat from this tree and promised death to anyone who tasted this fruit. The serpent tempts Eve, promising that, having tasted the fruit, people will not die, but will become Gods who know Good and Evil. It is known that Eve could not stand the temptation and committed the first sin.
Why does the snake act as a symbol of evil?
The serpent is an important image in ancient pagan religions. Because snakes shed their skin, they were often symbolized with rebirth, including nature's cycles of life and death. Therefore, the image of a snake was used in fertility rituals, especially those associated with seasonal cycles.
For the Jewish people, the snake was a symbol of polytheism and paganism, the natural enemy of Yahweh and monotheism.
Why did Sinless Eve allow herself to be deceived by the serpent?
Comparison, albeit indirect, between man and God led to the emergence of anti-God sentiments and curiosity in the soul of Eve. It is precisely these sentiments that push Eve to deliberately violate God’s commandment.
The co-cause of the Fall of Adam and Eve was their free will. Violation of God's commandment was only suggested to Adam and Eve, but not imposed. Both husband and wife participated in their fall of their own free will, for outside of free will there is no sin and no evil. The devil only incites sin, but does not force it.
The story of the Fall.
Lucas Cranach the Elder. Adam and Eve Adam and Eve, unable to withstand the temptation to which they were exposed by the devil (Snake), committed the first sin. Adam, carried away by his wife, violated the commandment of God and ate from the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Thus Adam and Eve incurred the wrath of the Creator. The first sign of sin was a constant feeling of shame and futile attempts to hide from God. Called by the Creator, they laid the blame: Adam - on the wife, and the wife - on the serpent.
The fall of Adam and Eve is fateful for all humanity. By the fall, the Theanthropic order of life was broken and the devil-human order was adopted; people wanted to become Gods, bypassing God. By the Fall, Adam and Eve introduced themselves into sin and sin into themselves and all their descendants.
Original sin– a person’s rejection of the goal of life determined by God - becoming like God. Original sin contains in germ all the future sins of mankind. Original sin contains the essence of all sin - its beginning and nature.
The consequences of the sin of Adam and Eve affected all of humanity, which inherited from them human nature corrupted by sin.
Expulsion from paradise.
God expelled Adam and Eve from paradise so that they would cultivate the earth from which Adam was created and eat the fruits of their labors. Before the exile, God made clothes for people so that they could cover their shame. God placed a Cherub with a flaming sword in the east of the Garden of Eden to guard the path to the tree of life. It is sometimes believed that the cherub armed with a sword was the Archangel Michael, the guardian at the gates to heaven. According to the second version, it was the Archangel Uriel.
Two punishments awaited Eve and all her daughters after the Fall. First, God increased Eve's pain in childbirth. Second, God said that the relationship between a man and a woman will always be characterized by conflict (Genesis 3:15 - 3:16). These punishments happen again and again in the lives of every woman throughout history. Regardless of all our medical advances, childbirth is always a painful and stressful experience for a woman. And no matter how advanced and progressive our society is, in the relationship between a man and a woman there can be seen the struggle for power and the struggle of the sexes, full of discord.
Children of Adam and Eve.
It is known for certain that Adam and Eve had 3 sons and an unknown number of daughters. The names of the daughters of the forefathers are not recorded in the Bible, since, according to ancient tradition, the family was traced through the male line.
The fact that Adam and Eve had daughters is evidenced by the text of the Bible:
The days of Adam after he begat Seth were eight hundred years, and he begat sons and daughters.
The first sons of Adam and Eve were. Cain, out of envy, kills Abel, for which he was expelled and settled separately with his wife. From the Bible it is known about six generations of the Tribe of Cain; further information is not traced; it is believed that the descendants of Cain died during the Great Flood.
He was the third son of Adam and Eve. Noah was a descendant of Seth.
According to the Bible, Adam lived 930 years. According to Jewish legend, Adam rests in Judea, next to the patriarchs; according to Christian legend, on Golgotha.
The fate of Eve is unknown, however, in the apocryphal “Life of Adam and Eve” it is said that Eve dies 6 days after the death of Adam, having bequeathed to her children to carve the life history of the first people in stone.
ADAM AND EVE IN WORKS OF FINE ART
The Bible contains two stories about the creation of the first people - Adam (the name means "man") and Eve (the name presumably means "the giver of life").
First option:
Second option:
William Blake. Eve's creation
Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld - The Sixth Day of Creation 
Since Adam was not born of a woman, but was created, it is not clear whether Adam had a navel. This question has been discussed by Christian theologians for centuries, exciting artists. An 11th-century French miniature depicts God using his finger to make an indentation on the belly of a clay Adam.
Michelangelo. Creation of Adam 
William Blake. Creation of Adam 
The creation of Eve from Adam's rib is a dark place in the Bible. It is possible that this motif in the Bible was influenced by Sumerian mythology. According to one of the Sumerian myths, a rib healer goddess, presumably named Nin-ti, was created to heal a diseased rib (in Sumerian - “ti”) of the god Enki. But the Sumerian word "ti" meant not only "rib", but also "to give life." Thanks to this literary pun, the biblical version of Eve could have arisen not only as the “giver of life,” but also as a “woman from the rib.”
Eve's creation. Medieval German miniature 
According to Jewish tradition, before Eve appeared, Adam's first wife was Lilith. God, having created Adam from clay, also made him a wife from clay and named her Lilith. Adam and Lilith immediately had an argument. Lilith claimed that they were equal since both were made of clay; unable to convince Adam, she flew away. After breaking up with Adam, Lilith became a demon who kills children.
John Collier. Lilith 
In Paradise, God allowed Adam to eat from every tree except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, “for in the day that you eat of it you will die” (Genesis 2:17). “The serpent was more cunning than all the beasts of the field that the Lord God had created. And the serpent said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You shall not eat from any tree in the garden?’ And the woman said to the serpent, ‘We can eat fruit from the trees, only the fruit of the tree that is among heaven, God said, do not eat them and do not touch them, lest you die. And the serpent said to the woman, No, you will not die, but God knows that on the day that you eat of them, your eyes will be opened, and you will as gods, knowing good and evil. And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes and desirable because it gives knowledge; and she took of its fruit and ate; and she gave it also to her husband, and he ate. And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked, and they sewed together fig leaves and made aprons for themselves" (Genesis 3:1-7).
Lucien Levy-Dhurmer. Eve 
Pantaleon Szyndler. Eve 
Gustave Moreau. Eve 
Albrecht Durer. Adam and Eve 
Albrecht Durer. Adam and Eve 
Hans Memling - Adam and Eve 
Dominic Engr. Golden age 
Hieronymus Bosch. Paradise 
Lucas Cranach. Adam and Eve 
Lucas Cranach. Adam and Eve 
Raphael. Adam and Eve 
William Blake. Archangel Raphael, Adam and Eve 
William Blake. Adam, Eve and angels 
In Judaism, the serpent is the fallen angel of death Samael, who did not want to obey man, being jealous of him. In the Christian tradition, the identification of the serpent with the devil, Satan, who took only the guise of a serpent, was firmly established. According to one legend, Satan could not name all the animals in the Garden of Eden, but Adam could. By this God proved the superiority of man over the angels. That is why Satan became the enemy of man. Judaic interpreters of the plot of the seduction of Eve by the serpent try to psychologically explain the behavior of the characters in the story: the serpent touched the forbidden tree, but remained alive, which demonstrated the groundlessness of Eve’s fears; he pushed Eve so that she touched the tree and said to herself: if I die, God will create another wife for Adam, so I will give him a taste of the fruit too - either we will die together, or we will remain alive.
John Roddam Spencer Stanhope. Temptation of Eve 
Michelangelo. The Fall 
Titian. The Fall 
William Blake. Temptation of Eve and the Fall 
William Blake. Temptation of Eve 
Hugo van der Goes. The Fall 
Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld - The Fall 
God, having learned about what had happened, cursed the serpent, and said to Eve: “I will multiply your sorrow in your pregnancy; in pain you will bear children; and your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you” (Genesis 3:16). And he said to Adam: “Because you listened to the voice of your wife and ate from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying: You shall not eat from it; cursed is the ground for your sake; in sorrow you will eat from it all the days of your life; thorns.” and it will bring forth thistles for you; and you will eat the grass of the field; by the sweat of your face you will eat bread, until you return to the ground from which you were taken; for dust you are, and to dust you will return" (Genesis 3:17-19). After this, Adam and Eve were expelled from Paradise.
Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld - Adam and Eve hide from the face of God 
Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld - Expulsion from Paradise 
According to the Bible, Adam lived 930 years, leaving many sons and daughters, among whom were Cain and Abel.
Johann Ramboux. Adam and Eve after expulsion from Paradise 
Adam and Eve after expulsion from Paradise. Medieval German miniature 
Andrey Ivanov - Adam and Eve with children under a tree 
Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld - Adam and Eve after expulsion from Paradise 
Edward Burne-Jones. Adam and Eve after expulsion from Paradise 
Carl Johan Bonnesen. Adam and Eve mourn the death of Abel 
Piero della Francesca. Death of Adam 
In the apocryphal “Life of Adam and Eve,” Eve dies 6 days after Adam’s death, having bequeathed to her children to carve the lives of the first people in stone. Adam and Eve were given the assurance that the coming “son of God” (Jesus Christ) would save them.
In Christianity, it is believed that the Fall (otherwise called “original sin”), i.e. Adam and Eve's violation of the will of God led to a distortion of the original nature of man, who was first created innocent and sinless. Salvation from the consequences of the Fall is seen in the act of baptism, which establishes the participation of the baptized in Jesus Christ (the new Adam), who redeemed with his death the “original sin” of the first Adam.
William Blake. Adam, Eve and the crucifixion of Christ 
And Seth - the first people born outside the Garden of Eden. Seduced by the serpent, she gave her husband Adam a taste of the forbidden fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, which in Christian mythology became the cause of the fall of the first people.
Creation of Man
God created the first people, Adam and Eve, in his own image and likeness. It was assumed that the ancestors of mankind would rule over everything living on earth. God was the first to make Adam “from the dust of the earth” and breathe life into him through his nostrils. Then God put Adam to sleep and took his rib, and from this material he created Eve, the first woman.
Eve became Adam's wife. Both lived in the Garden of Eden, walked “naked and not ashamed.” The "canonical" story of Adam and Eve is found in the book of Genesis. However, there are also apocrypha, according to which Eve is not the second person created after Adam, but the third, because the second was Lilith, the first “unsuccessful” wife of Adam, whom God created before Eve. This is described in the book of Zohar.
Lilith can be called the first feminist in mythological history to vote in favor of equal rights for men and women. Lilith refused to submit to Adam, declaring that God created woman equal to him. Lilith flew away from Adam, uttering the secret name of God, and Adam went to God to complain.
Three angels were sent after the fugitive, who overtook Lilith at the Red Sea. The woman refused to return to her husband and was punished. Lilith turned into an evil demon who kills babies, and according to Kabbalah, into a she-devil who comes to young bachelors in their dreams and seduces them.
Created from a rib, Eve no longer considered herself equal to her husband, but she also brought him trouble.
Original sin
When creating the Garden of Eden, God “included in the project” two special trees - the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil and the Tree of Life. The fruits from the second gave eternal life, but the Lord forbade the fruits from the first to be tasted. The punishment for those who violate the ban will be death. The rest of the flora in Eden was at the complete disposal of Adam and Eve.
At first, people observed the Lord’s prohibition, until the serpent, who was “more cunning than all the beasts of the field,” turned to Eve. The serpent began to persuade Eve to taste the forbidden fruit. At first, Eve refused to obey the serpent and said that God had forbidden anyone to approach that tree and try the fruits from it under threat of death.
The serpent convinced Eve that they were not threatened with death; on the contrary, by eating the fruit, people themselves would become like gods. Fascinated by the speeches of the devilish reptile, Eve tried the fruit, which in popular culture is considered to be an apple. In fact, the type of fruit in the Bible is not specified, and there are different opinions about what exactly Eve ate - from a fig or a fig in the version of the Jews to a peach in the version of the Armenians.
Having tasted the fruit, Eve fed it to her husband. After tasting the forbidden fruit, Adam and Eve suddenly noticed that they were both naked, became embarrassed and tried to hide from God. The Lord punished each participant in the events. He cursed the snake to always crawl on its belly and eat dust. And he expelled Adam and Eve, who committed the original sin, from Eden.
Outside the Garden of Eden, a man had to work hard all his life and cultivate the land, and Eve was doomed to obey her husband and “bear children in illness.” People lost the immortality that was characteristic of them in the Garden of Eden, and after death they were doomed to return to dust - to the earth. To prevent people from sneaking back into Eden and tasting the fruits of the Tree of Life, which give immortality, the Lord placed a cherub at the entrance - a many-winged angel with a fiery sword.
After being expelled from paradise, people began to be fruitful and multiply. Eve gave birth to her first son, Cain, followed by her second, Abel. The third son, Seth, was born to Eve when she was already 130 years old. From the family of this Seth came Noah, the Old Testament patriarch who was saved in the ark during the Flood along with a small group of chosen righteous people. The descendants of Eve's other sons - Cain and Abel - died during the flood. Thus, Seth is considered the ancestor of modern humanity.
Film adaptations
In the 11th episode of the first season of the series “The X-Files”, the name of Eve is given to women and girls-clones artificially created during a genetic experiment. These lab-enhanced babies were supposed to become super soldiers. But something went wrong, and Eve's test subjects began to go crazy in their teens, turning into psychopathic killers.
In 2014, the biblical epic film “Noah” was released, where the actress Ariane Rinehart embodied the image of Eve.
In the Supernatural series, Eve is the mother of monsters, a powerful being who appeared long before angels and humans. She lived in Purgatory until she escaped from there to Earth, where, in the guise of a mortal woman, she gathers her own army to confront angels, demons and everyone in general.
In 2013, Jim Jarmusch's film "Only Lovers Left Alive" was released, which is about a couple of vampires - an underground musician (), who lives in half-abandoned Detroit and is thinking about suicide, and his stylish wife (), who loves poetry and chatting in the evenings with contemporary English poet Christopher Marlowe in the warm Moroccan city of Tangier. Both vampires are named after the biblical ancestors - Adam and Eve.
- The images of Adam and Eve have been played out many times in art. The images of the ancestors of mankind on the diptych of the German artist Albrecht Dürer and on the doors of the Ghent Altarpiece by the van Eyck brothers are famous throughout the world. Hieronymus Bosch depicted Adam and Eve on the left wing of the famous triptych “The Garden of Earthly Delights”, which shows the last three days of the creation of the world.
- Molecular biologists have dubbed "mitochondrial Eve" the woman who became the last common maternal ancestor of all living people and lived about two hundred thousand years ago. The mitochondrial DNA of this hypothetically existing lady is shared by all human women, but this does not mean that she was the only “foremother” of humanity, like the biblical Eve. Other women lived at the same time as the so-called “mitochondrial Eve” and also made their own contribution to the gene pool of humanity. This discovery is the subject of a two-part Discovery film, “The Real Eve.”
- In Peterhof there are paired fountains “Adam” and “Eve”, sculpted by the Italian Giovanni Bonazza commissioned by the Russian diplomat Raguzinsky during the times. Over the three centuries of existence, the fountains have not changed and have retained their original appearance.
- In Abrahamic religious traditions, it is believed that Old Testament characters have very real burial places. The ancestress Eve, according to Judaism, is buried in the Cave of the Patriarchs, also known as the Cave of Machpelah, in the ancient part of the city of Hebron on the banks of the Jordan River. Along with Eve, Sarah, the wife of Abraham, Rebekah, the wife of Isaac, and Leah, the wife of Jacob, rest there. And according to the Islamic version, Eve’s grave is located in the city of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, where there is a place called Hawwa’s Tomb, or Mukbarat umna Hawwah.
- In the Muslim tradition, Eve is called Havva. The Koran says nothing about Adam’s wife, she is only mentioned, without details. But the details are present in hadiths, or legends that tell about life. In this version, the Lord sent Adam and Hawwa to different parts of the world: the man, after the Fall, ended up in India, and the woman in the Arabian Peninsula. It is believed that Havva gave birth not three times, but twenty, and each time - twins. The last thing Havva gave birth to was one son. In total, Havva had 39 children according to the Islamic version.
- Asteroid 164, discovered in 1876, is named after Eve.
Quotes
“And Adam called his wife’s name Eve, for she became the mother of all living.” - Gen.3:20
“And the serpent said to the woman, Has God truly said, You shall not eat of any tree in the garden? And the woman said to the serpent: We can eat fruit from the trees, only from the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden, God said, do not eat it or touch it, lest you die. And the serpent said to the woman: No, you will not die, but God knows that on the day that you eat of them, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like gods, knowing good and evil. And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes and desirable because it gave knowledge; and she took of its fruit and ate; And she gave it also to her husband, and he ate.” - Gen.3:1-6
“Our Garden is a single Tree,
With a leafy host of branches.
It was planted by radiant Eve,
For centuries and centuries, the immaculate Virgin..."