Genesis tells the story of one man, one woman and one garden. The other books I read keep adding to it: more gardens, a first wife before Eve, people who lived before Adam and first couples in Persia, India and Egypt. This page groups my Adam and Eve pages so you can follow one thread at a time.
The gardens
I start with the garden itself. The books I read put Eden in the Pacific, on Atlantis, inside the Earth or on the plain of Babylonia, and these pages follow each of those readings.
The main page on Eden. The books put the garden in the Pacific, on Atlantis, inside the Earth and at the city of Eridu, and Bashar, channeled through Darryl Anka, explains how they can all be speaking of a garden.
The scholarly side of the question: the Sumerian word edin, "desert" or "steppe", the plain of Babylonia and the city of Eridu, with Sayce and Smith among the scholars who looked for Eden in Mesopotamia.
The fruit that gives long life in other traditions: the Peach of Longevity from the orchard of Xi Wangmu, the Golden Apples and ambrosia.
Genesis 3 read with Paul Wallis and with Bashar, who describes Adama and Eva as the result of a long genetic project rather than one act of creation.
A short page of quotes on the idea that there was more than one Adam and more than one Eve.
Adam and his sons
These are the pages on Adam and the sons Genesis gives him. I read them next to OAHSPE, the Secret Book of John and the old legends of Adam’s death.
Eve and Lilith
Here I follow the first women of the garden. Eve is made from a part of Adam, and Lilith is the woman who chose to leave him.
Men before Adam
Several of my sources say people lived on Earth before the biblical Adam. These pages collect those claims, from the jinn to Steiner’s Akashic reading.
My main page on the people and races said to have lived before the biblical Adam, from the jinn of Islamic tradition to Isaac La Peyrère.
The timeline in Paschal Beverly Randolph's Pre-Adamite Man (1863), from the creation of man to the time of Christ.
Rudolf Steiner on the earliest stages of humanity as read in the Akashic Records, when the Earth was made of fine etheric matter.
The school story of the split from the chimpanzee line, and why the word "naturally" bothers me.
Other first humans
Other peoples have their own first man or first couple. I put them here next to Adam and Eve.
The Gnostic Adam
The Gnostic texts tell the story from another side. In them a lesser god, Sakla or Saklas, makes Adam and Eve out of the earth.
Adam tells Seth that he and Eve were made by the god Sakla out of the earth, after once being like great eternal angels.
The Gnostic creator god Saklas, a lesser maker of the material world, and the names he is linked with.
Iblis, also called Azazil, who refused to prostrate himself before Adam, and the question of whether he was one of the Anunnaki.
For every page I tagged with Eve, see the Eve tag archive.
