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Adam & Eve Mythology Project
Adam & Eve Mythology
Diamond Gearing
Jeff Charles
Zion Moore
Origins
The Bald Eagle Story
Origins
The Story of Adam and Eve. Genesis, the first book of the Bible, contains two accounts of how Adam and Eve came into being. The first version, which most likely dates from between 600 and 400 B . C ., says that God created all living things—including a man and woman "in his own image"—on the sixth day of creation. According to the second version, which is longer and probably several centuries older, God (here named Yahweh) made Adam from dust and breathed "the breath of life" into his nostrils. God then created animals so that Adam would not be alone. However, God saw that Adam needed a human partner, so he put Adam to sleep, took a rib from his side, and created Eve from it.
Adam and Eve lived in a garden called Eden, from which four rivers flowed out into the world. Like other earthly paradises in mythologies of the arid Near East, Eden was a well-watered, fertile place that satisfied all of the needs of Adam and Eve. God imposed only one restriction on life in this paradise: not to eat the fruit of a certain tree—the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
A sly serpent in the garden persuaded Eve to eat the forbidden fruit, and Adam tasted the fruit as well. The two lost their innocence immediately. Ashamed of their nakedness, they covered themselves with leaves. God saw that they had disobeyed him and drove them from the Garden of Eden.
Variation 1
In the beginning, according to US Salinan Indians, there were no people; but animals did exist ruled by Bald Eagle. Feeling the world was incomplete, Bald Eagle molded the figure of a man from clay. The clay man grew to full size even as he slept, unaware. The Bald Eagle decided that the man needed a mate. He pulled a feather and laid it by the man. AS the man continued to lie unconscious, a woman was formed from the feather. It was now time to wake the man so Bald Eagle came and flapped his wings in the man’s face. The man startled awake, staring at the woman in confusion. The eagle encouraged them to have sex but the man was reluctant since he didn’t know her. The Bald Eagle called a Coyote over, telling him to try out the woman first. Sex with the woman killed the Coyote at first but when the Eagle revived him and they had sex again, he survived. After that, the couple was left to share a life together.
The Biami Creation Story
Variation 2
According to the Biami of Papua New Guinea, the world was initially populated by men. The first man heard the cry of a small palm tree. This tree kept wailing and crying and attracted the first man to it. The man approached the small palm tree and the thought somehow entered his mind that he needed to carve a woman out of the tree. He took a knife and began to sculpt the shape of a woman into the bark of the tree. He was very anatomically correct in drawing her from her organs to her shape, everything. Once he was done, he breathed life into her nostrils that he’d carved from the tree. When this was done, the woman came to life. These two individuals were not specifically named but when the Biami heard the Christian story of creation they believed it to be the same story.
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