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Adam, Eve and the Garden of Eden
Like other major biblical characters and tales, the fable of Adam, Eve and the Garden of Eden is based on much older versions found in numerous cultures around the globe. The Hindu version of the first couple was of Adima and Heva, hundreds if not thousands of years before the Hebraic version, as has been firmly pointed out by Hindus to Christian missionaries for centuries. Jackson relates that these myths "seemed to have originated in Africa, but they were told all over the world in ancient times. . ." Obviously, then, we will not find any historical Adam and Eve in Mesopotamia.
In the Sumerian and Babylonian versions of the Garden of Eden myth, from which the Hebrew one is also derived, the original couple were created equal in stature by the great Goddess. When the fervent patriarchy took over the story, it changed it to make women not only inferior but also guilty of the downfall of all mankind. Of this demotion, Stone says:
Woman, as sagacious advisor or wise counselor, human interpreter of the divine will of the Goddess, was no longer to be respected, but to be hated, feared or at best doubted or ignored.... Women were to be regarded as mindless, carnal creatures, both attitudes justified and "proved" by the Paradise myth. . . . Statements carefully designed to suppress the earlier social structure continually presented the myth of Adam and Eve as divine proof that man must hold the ultimate authority.2
Far from being literal, the Garden of Eden/Paradise story takes place in the heavens. According to Hazelrigg, the word "Paradise" means "among the stars," and he points out that the tale as taken literally by the "devoted biblicist" is a demeaning portrayal of "God," as it declares that "God" is vengeful towards his own flawed progeny, "the gullible pair whom He had created `in His image' seemingly for the sole purpose that He might send a serpent of iniquity to tempt the weakness and depravity so inadvertently implanted in their godly-begotten natures. A monstrous doctrine, indeed, that can picture a God so sinister in purpose as to betray the innocence of His own offspring!"3
Yet, common sense has failed to prevail, as numerous theories have sprung up as to the "true" location of the Garden of Eden.
Walker further states:
Seventeen hundred years ago, Origen wrote of the Garden of Eden myth: "No one would be so foolish as to take this allegory as a description of actual fact." But Origen was excommunicated, and countless millions have been precisely that foolish.4
Adam
Adam is not a historical character, as the word "Adam" simply means "man" and is not a person's name. Adam is Atum or Amen in Egypt, the archetypal man and son of Ptah the Father.5 In the Chaldean scriptures, from which the Israelite writings were in large part plagiarized, he is called "Adami," and in the Babylonian he is "Adamu." As in the Hebrew version, the Sumero-Babylonian Adamu was prevented by the gods from eating the fruit of immortality, so that he would not "be as a god." Adam is also "adamah," which means "bloody clay," referring to menstrual blood.(' Walker explains that "the biblical story of God's creation of Adam out of clay was plagiarized from ancient texts with the patriarchs' usual sex-change of the deity," who was the SumeroBabylonian "Potter" goddess Aruru.7
Eve
Eve is also not a literal figure who either caused the downfall of mankind or gave birth to it. Rather, Eve is the archetypal female and goddess found around the globe:
The biblical title of Eve, "Mother of All Living," was a translation of Kali Ma's title Jaganmata. She was also known in India as Jiva or leva, the Creatress of all manifested forms.8
As stated, earlier mythologies placed the created woman on the same par with the man, rather than as a mere "rib." In some of these ancient tales, Eve was superior to Adam and even to God, as his "stern mother."9 According to one myth, before