Adam, the first man and his wives

Adam, for most people who profess or at least share the idea of the Judeo-Christian religion, is the first man created by God, in his own image and likeness.

Genesis 1,26-27:

26 And he said: Let us make man to our image and likeness: and let him have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts, and the whole earth, and every creeping creature that moveth upon the earth.
27 And God created man to his own image: to the image of God he created him: male and female he created them.

On the sixth day God created male and female, that they might be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it…

According to Hebrew records, the first woman’s name was Lilit (or Lilith). She was quarrelsome, she demanded equal rights as Adam, because she was, like Adam, made of the same clay as Adam.
(Lilith also appears in the Qumran manuscripts in passages based on the Book of Isaiah and in various places in the Talmud and Zohar. Some midrashim state that the serpent that tempted Eve to taste the forbidden fruit was actually Lilith, and not Satan himself.)
Lilith was sent away by Adam or left on her own, which definitively ended her relationship with Adam.

Genesis 2,7-8:

7 And the Lord God formed man of the slime of the earth: and breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul.
8 And the Lord God had planted a paradise of pleasure from the beginning: wherein he placed man whom he had formed.

This fragment is a second description of the creation of man, providing the information that “he formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life.” This is unambiguous and tells us directly how God created the first man for the second time.

Genesis 2,21-23:

21 Then the Lord God cast a deep sleep upon Adam: and when he was fast asleep, he took one of his ribs, and filled up flesh for it.
22 And the Lord God built the rib which he took from Adam into a woman: and brought her to Adam.
23 And Adam said: This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man.

The above part describes the SECOND creation of woman, by taking Adam’s rib and creating a woman from it.

Moreover, the SECOND woman’s name was Eve (Latin name: Heva; Hebrew: Chava), who from her relationship with Adam gave birth of Cain, Abel and later Seth, whose, according to the Bible, is the default genealogical line.

If we assume that the Bible (Old Testament) is largely a “reprint” or “copy” of older Egyptian, Babylonian and Sumerian texts, then we should follow this lead.

In the Sumerian language, the word for rib is “ki”, which also means “vital force”.

Maybe the translators and editors of older texts translated or interpreted this fragment incorrectly and a “rib” was created that does not fit the whole? Maybe it’s about something else: a “cell”, “elementary particle” or something similar, which allowed the “creators” from Adam’s genetic material to produce a second (or rather third, if we also count Lilith) being that was more suited to their plans and made it possible natural procreation.

Going further, the question arises whether the adaptation of another woman to the possibility of reproduction is not a symbolic “eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil”, which made man become like God, but without the possibility of eternal life…

Genesis 3,22:

22 And he said: Behold Adam is become as one of us, knowing good and evil: now therefore lest perhaps he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever.

Related posts:

Were the first humans Adam and Eve been created in the Garden of Eden or somewhere else? Is the story of Cain and Abel an interpretation of much older Sumerian accounts, providing evidence of extraterrestrial interference in the development of Homo sapiens? Cain – what happened to him? Did the Biblical Jonah spend 3 days in the belly of a whale or in an unidentified submerged object?