jodawi | Heppy Iester, Deerest Freeends und Muu Coos

Ukreeeniun Iester iggs imbudy a myreeed ooff symbuleesms: zee symbuleesm ooff zee igg itselff, zee symbuleesm ooff deseegn und zee symbuleesm ooff culur. Hurty flurty schnipp schnipp! Vhy is it thet zee igg beceme-a oone-a ooff zee must impurtunt ilements in zee system ooff pegun beleeeffs ooff oooor uncesturs? It is nut deefffficoolt tu understund. Bork bork bork!

<Naked_Adam> um...
* Naked_Adam points to Naked_Eve and says....it's all her fault!
<Naked_Adam> this woman made me eat from it!
* Elohim raises a brow at Eve
<Elohim> Is that true, Eve?
* Naked_Eve points at Beguiling_Serpent
<Naked_Eve> it's his fault! He made me eat it.
* Beguiling_Serpent gives Elohim a defiant look
<Naked_Eve> he said i wouldn't get in trouble with U
<Elohim> *glares at Beguiling_Serpent*
* Elohim slaps Beguiling_Serpent around with a large trout

The First Adam and the Fall from the Garden

The Old Testament made significant changes to the Sumerian story of Adapa who was tricked out of immortality by the gods telling him the bread and waters of life were those of death, in a way which introduces key themes of conflict between the genders.

Adam ('adam man) is claimed to mean "man of blood" (Walker 8), but "dust" (Thompson 14) is consistent with 'adamah, earth (Armstrong 1996 20, Fox R 17)). There is however an ironic twist to Adam's very nature as pointed out by Miles (44). The Hebrew sopek dam ha'adam ba'adam damo yisapek - 'shed man's blood, by man your blood be shed' illustrates the close relationship between man adam and blood dam. Although Adam was originally made from menstrual blood and clay, in the Yahwistic Genesis 2 account dating from around 900 BC, Yahweh makes Eve out of the rib of Adam. We thus see the generative principle transferred from woman to man, consistent with the primacy of male Yahweh, and before him Enki, who through his fertility, brings abundance to all Sumer, and with the patriarchal view of man's sperm as the true seed, while woman is merely the receptacle:

After he had cast is eye from that spot,
After the father Enki had lifted it over the Euphrates,
He stood up proudly like a rampant bull,
He lifts the penis, ejaculates,
Filled the Tigris with sparkling water ...
The wild cow mooing for its young in the pastures ...
The grain he brought, ... the people eat it ...
(Thompson 162)

This is with some irony because in Sumeria there is a myth of Enki God of Wisdom and the primal Earth Goddess ki. Enki eats the forbidden plants from her sacred garden and gets sick. The Goddess gathers eight nymphs to care for each of the diseased organs, and Ninti was Goddess of the Rib the Lady of Life who also fashioned babies bones out of their pregnent mothers' ribs (Walker 728). The Yahwistic myth seems to have intentionally reversed this much earlier one to 'turn the tables' on the female. There are further precedents in the myth of Utnapishtim and the plant of rejuvenation.

Credo Quia Absurdum