Chapter 3 3. Walk into Eden

Garden of Eden, in the east, some people say it is Hotan, Xinjiang, China.Hotan was named Khotan in ancient times.Khotan and Eden have similar pronunciations, so they may be the same place.What's more, there is a huge fig tree there.The leaves that covered Adam and Eve's bodies were torn from that tree, right? This is, of course, nonsense, and it can only be listened to.In fact, the Garden of Eden can be a concept of space, but it can also be regarded as a concept of time.In other words, there may not be any "Garden of Eden" in the world, but there may not be an "Eden of Eden".

The question is simply, when is it? The childhood season when the mind is just sprouting. The symbol of human civilization is the birth of a country; the development of human society is a complicated and long process.To put it simply, it is from scattered, weak, small ethnic groups that make their own living, through migration, merger, reproduction and expansion, from point to area, to slice, to circle, to country.A country is a country.Before the country is the tribal alliance, which is the circle; before the circle is the tribe, which is the piece; before the piece is the clan, which is the surface; before the surface is the primitive group, which is the point.These types are organizational forms and social forms, as well as historical stages, so they should have representatives in myths and legends.For example, Xia Qi represents the birth of the country, Yao and Shun represent the tribal alliance, Yan and Huang represent the tribe, and Fuxi and Nuwa represent the paternal and matrilineal clans respectively.

Who, then, represents the original group? Eve, and only Eve. This doesn't seem right, and it doesn't feel good, but there's no way around it.Cultural symbols must have connotations, and there must be codes in them.Does the person created by Nu Wa, whether it is pinched or thrown out, have connotations and codes?No, not even gender.Nor have they been in Eden to be our guides and informants. Eve was a mystery. For example, why did God remove a rib from Adam instead of using clay to create Eve?Some people say that it means "half of a man is a woman".Okay, let’s say that, so why can’t Eve be made first, and then Adam be made from Eve’s rib?Half of a woman is also a man!

If you ask this way, you will not be famous.The correct way is to reason backwards. How to push backwards?to see the result. What is the result of God creating man in this way?It was Eve who rebelled and caused trouble in the Garden of Eden.It was she who was tempted by the snake, she was the one who ate the forbidden fruit, and it was she who encouraged Adam to commit the original sin.This is not surprising at all.Eve was originally of the opposite sex in the Garden of Eden, and she was also of the opposite sex.Adam was created first and she after; Adam's raw material was the clay and she was the rib; Adam was the man and she was the woman.Eve and Adam have neither the same time, nor the same quality, nor the same sex.If you don't provoke right and wrong, it will be a strange thing!

This makes people suspicious. God, why bother to create such a vixen?Could it be that the omniscient and omnipotent Lord didn't know that this girl would overthrow the Garden of Eden sooner or later? And where did the snake that tempted Eve come from? What is it? Questions like these abound.But one thing is very reliable, that is, after Adam and Eve ate the wisdom fruit and became "clear in mind", they immediately panicked.Their first reaction was to use fig leaves to invent the first human briefs. What made them both panic?Is it the naked body? Exactly. very good!And therein lies the secret.

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