The page ends with Lilith, Adam's first wife in Rabbinic lore.
One Rabbinical interpretation of the text, "And God created man in His own image, male-female created He them," is that Adam and Eve were formed back to back, united at the shoulders, and were hewn asunder with a hatchet; but of this more presently.
They also say that, for the marriage-feast of Adam and Eve, God made a table of precious stone, and each gem was a hundred ells long and sixty ells wide, and the table was covered with costly dishes.
4), argued that Adam had two faces, one male and the other female, and that he was of both sexes.
The Rabbi Samuel Ben-Nahaman held that the first man was created double, with a woman at his back, and that God cut them apart. "Adam," said other Rabbis, "had two faces and one tail, and from the beginning he was both male and female, male on one side, female on the other; but afterwards the parts were separated."
The Talmudists assert that God cut off Adam's tail and thereof formed Eve.
The Mussulman tradition is, that Adam having eaten the bunch of grapes given him as a reward for having preached to the angels, fell asleep; and whilst he slept, God took from his left side a woman whom He called Hava, because she was extracted from one living (Hai), and He laid her beside Adam.
She resembled him exactly, except that her features were more delicate, her hair longer and divided into seven hundred locks, her form more slender, her eyes softer, and her voice sweeter than Adam's.
In the meantime Adam had been dreaming that a wife had been given to him; and when he woke, great was his delight to find his dream turned into a reality.
Adam thereupon sent the angel Gabriel to ask God's permission to take to him Hava as his wife.
Ridhwan, the porter of Paradise, then brought to Adam the winged horse Meimun, and to Eve a light-footed she-camel.
In the midst of Paradise was a green silk tent spread for them, supported on gold pillars, and in the tent was a throne upon which Adam and Hava were seated.
Tabari says that Adam was brought single into Paradise, through which he roamed eating from the fruit trees, and a deep sleep fell upon him, during which Eve was created from his left side.
And when Adam opened his eyes, he saw her, and asked her who she was, and she replied, "I am thy wife; God created me out of thee and for thee, that thy heart might find repose."
The angels said to Adam: "What thing is this?
Why is she made?" Adam replied, "This is Eve." Adam remained five hundred years in Paradise.
It was on a Friday that Adam entered Eden.
Adam's creation.
God made Adam from clay and breathed his spirit into him (Qur'an 15:28-29, 38:71-72).
God taught Adam the names of all things, and Ibn Kathir reads this as showing Adam's superiority over the angels in knowledge (Qur'an 2:31, tafsir).
On 2:35 Ibn Kathir quotes a hadith in which Abu Dharr asks whether Adam was a prophet, and the Prophet answers yes, "a Prophet and a Messenger to whom Allah spoke directly".
Adam fell asleep, God took one of his left ribs and made flesh grow in its place "while Adam was asleep and unaware", and from the rib He created his wife Hawwa.
On Qur'an 4:1 Ibn Kathir adds that when Adam woke and saw her, he liked her and had affection for her, and she felt the same toward him.
Adam wakes.
In Ibn Ishaq's account Adam sees Hawwa beside him and, "it was claimed", says "My flesh and blood, my wife." God then tells them to dwell in Paradise, eat freely, and not come near one tree (Qur'an 2:35, 7:19).
Ibn Kathir calls the tree a test for Adam.
Ibn Kathir reads this as all people descending from Adam and Hawwa.
The Rabbi Eliezer, commenting on the text "He called their name Adam" (Gen.
That Eve was Adam's second wife was a common Rabbinic speculation; certain of the commentators on Genesis having adopted this view to account for the double account of the creation of woman in the sacred text,—first in Genesis i.
18; and they say that Adam's first wife was named Lilith, but she was expelled from Eden, and after her expulsion Eve was created.
Lilith was made from clay with Adam, was proud and was expelled from Paradise.
"There are some who do not regard spectres as simple devils, but suppose them to be of a mixed nature, part demoniacal, part human, and to have had their origin from Lilith, Adam's first wife, by Eblis, the prince of the devils.
They gave to Adam a wife, formed of clay, along with Adam, and called her Lilith; resting on the Scripture, 'male and female created He them:' but when this woman, on account of her simultaneous creation with him, became proud and a vexation to her husband, God expelled her from Paradise, and then said, 'It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.'
And this they confirm by the words of Adam when he saw the woman fashioned from his rib, 'This is now bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh,' which is as much as to say, Now God has given me a wife and companion, suitable for me, taken from my bone and flesh, but the other wife he gave me was not of my bone and flesh, and therefore was not a suitable companion and wife for me.
Clement, which nevertheless contains a large element of truth; it is to this effect, that Adam, when made, was like a beast, coarse, rude, and inanimate, but that from Eve he received his upright position, his polish, and his spirituality.
The Anunnaki fashioned Lilith from dust and placed her in the garden alongside Adam.
Disagreeing with Adam, Lilith chose to depart the Garden of Eden.
Genesis 2 = The later physical formation of Adam and the bringing forth of the “helpmeet” (Eve) from within him, so the spiritual beings would have their true counterpart instead of mixing with the “sons and daughters of men.”
The best known makes her Adam’s first wife.
In this “first Eve” story, God made Lilith from dust, like Adam, and placed her in the garden with him.
Adam wanted to rule over her.
Disagreeing with Adam, Lilith chose to depart the Garden of Eden.
Adam complained to God.
It is the first text to tell the full story of Lilith as Adam’s first wife.
In Norman Bronznick’s translation, Lilith refuses to lie beneath Adam, and Adam insists on being on top:
After Iblis was expelled from the Garden of Eden, he married the serpent whose mouth he had entered to speak to Adam, and they had children.
Lilith is made from the same earth as Adam.
The godless Sammael had made an alliance with all the chiefs of his host against the Lord, because the holy and ever-blessed Lord had said to Adam and Eve, "Have dominion over the fish of the sea," and he said, "How can I make man to sin and drive him out?" Then he went down to earth with all his host, and he sought for a companion like to himself; he chose the serpent, which was in size like a camel, and he seated himself on its back and rode up to the woman, and said to her, "Hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?" And he thought, "I will ask more presently." Then she answered, "He has only forbidden me the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge which is in the midst of the garden.
Do you also touch it and try." But when Eve drew near to the tree she saw the Angel of Death waiting sword in hand, and she said in her heart, "Perhaps I am to die, and then God will create another wife for Adam; that shall not be, he must die too." So she gave him of the fruit.
Were there people, or other intelligent races, here before the biblical Adam?
Isaac La Peyrère’s 1655 book on men before Adam is the written case I still use.
When I say Pre-Adamites, I mean anyone said to be in the world before Adam.
Gentiles before the Hebrew Adam.
Earlier Adams in long ages.
They already walked the earth when Adam’s line arrived.
I use that verse as scripture for “creatures before Adam.” It is not a full Pre-Adamite teaching by itself.
Hinn belong to Arabian and Islamic tradition of races before Adam.
It is the idea of several Adams.
So “before Adam” can mean before this Adam.
It does not have to mean before every possible Adam.
Earlier people and earlier Adams are human pre-Adamites.
The English Men before Adam followed in 1656, with Systema theologicum.
I review both books on their own pages: the Latin Praeadamitae of 1655 and the English Men before Adam of 1656.
If Adam sinned under law, and law began with Adam, then a lawless world already existed.
People already lived in that world before Adam.
Adam is father of the Hebrews / Jews.
Original sin tracks Adam’s line.
It wipes Adam’s race, except Noah’s family.
All of that implies other people outside Adam’s tiny household:
Peoples spread across the earth are hard to squeeze into Adam’s immediate family alone.
Ancient civilizations appear too early for a short Adam-only timeline.
Giants / Nephilim do not fit a simple Adam-only family.
The Flood reads as regional, or limited to Adam’s race, in his model.
I read other races and intelligences before Adam as a paleo-contact and deep-time trail.
It places pre-Adam people on the isle Muscham in the Maldives.
The Muscham story is in Chapter 2, Adam.
After Adam settles in Ceylon they submit.
I use it as another story of a race before Adam.
It claims people lived before Adam.
It claims Adam had parents.
It claims Adam came from India.
In that telling Adam is father of an agricultural civilization.
In Maimonides’ outline, Adam appears as an individual born of male and female.
I read that as Adam the culture-bringer and farm founder, not only Adam the first man.
Before Adam was formed, God created the Dives and gave them the world to govern for seven thousand years.
Oahspe calls the asu'ans Adams, so its peoples are not from before Adam.
Adam is the named first man in the standard Genesis reading.
Or earlier Adams.
Nephilim / giants in Genesis 6 do not fit a simple Adam-only family.
Law, death, and Adam turn on that text.
I read Pre-Adamites, Nephilim, and flood survivors as a long human story next to the biblical Adam.
And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
Pre-Adamites give me the before-Adam question that I take to other pages.
So do La Peyrère’s Gentiles-before-Adam, Nabatean farm legends, and Cain’s neighbors in Nod.
It is not a closed timeline that starts at Adam alone.
People or intelligent races said to exist before the biblical Adam.
They also include several-Adams ages.
La Peyrère’s Gentiles before the Hebrew Adam belong here.
So do Nabatean legends of people before Adam, and Persian story-book races before Adam.
Some mid-9th-century teachers speak of several Adams and ages of about 50,000 years.
That is a creatures-before-Adam verse.
Author of Prae-Adamitae (1655) and Men before Adam (1656).
He argued for people before Adam.
He argued for two creations: Gentiles first, then Adam as Hebrew father.
Genesis 6 giants / Nephilim do not fit a simple Adam-only family.
As the before-Adam question.
Adam and Eve lived for five hundred years in Paradise before they ate of the tree and fell; for Eblis was outside, and could not enter the gates to deceive them.
Eblis answered that he was not ready to leave yet, but that he desired to speak to Adam out of her mouth, and to this she consented, fearing Ridhwan, and greatly desiring to hear and learn the three salutary words.
"I am troubled for Adam's future," answered the evil spirit, affecting the voice of the serpent.
Eve ate one of the grains and found it more delicious than anything she had hitherto tasted, so she gave a second grain to Adam.
Adam resisted at first, according to some authorities for a whole hour, but an hour in Paradise was eighty years of our earthly reckoning.
Thereupon all Adam's heaven-given raiment fell from him, his crown slipped off his head, his rings dropped from his fingers, his silken garment glided like water from his shoulders, and he and Eve were naked and unadorned, and their fallen garments reproached them with the words, "Great is your misfortune; long will be your sorrows; we were created to adorn those who serve God; farewell till the resurrection!"
The throne recoiled from them and exclaimed, "Depart from me, ye disobedient ones!" The horse Meimun, which Adam sought to mount, plunged and refused to allow him to touch it, saying, "How hast thou kept God's covenant?" All the inhabitants of Paradise turned their backs on the pair, and prayed God to remove the man and the woman from the midst of them.
God himself addressed Adam with a voice of thunder, saying, "Did not I forbid thee to touch of this fruit, and caution thee against the subtlety of thy foe, Eblis?" Adam and Eve tried to fly these reproaches, but the branches of the tree Talh caught Adam, and Eve entangled herself in her long hair.
"Depart from Paradise," then spake God, "thou Adam, thy wife, and the animals which led you into sin.
Adam was expelled through the gate of Repentance, that he might know that through it alone could Paradise be regained; Eve was banished through the gate of Grace; the peacock and the serpent through that of Wrath, and Eblis through the gate of Damnation.
Adam fell into the island Serendib (Ceylon), Eve at Jedda, the Serpent into the desert of Sahara, the Peacock into Persia, and Eblis into the river Eila.
Tabari says that when the forbidden wheat had entered the belly of Adam and Eve, all the skin came off, except from the ends of the fingers.
Now this skin had been pink and horny, so that they had been invulnerable in Paradise, and they were left naked and with a tender skin which could easily be lacerated; but, as often as Adam and Eve looked on their fingernails, they remembered what skin they had worn in Eden.
Tabari also says that four trees pitying the shame of Adam and Eve, the Peacock, and the Serpent, in being driven naked out of Paradise, bowed their branches and gave each a leaf.
Certain Rabbis say that Adam ate only on compulsion, that he refused, but Eve "took of the tree,"—that is, broke a branch and "gave it him," with the stick.
3), Eve, on eating the fruit, felt in herself the poison of Jezer hara, or Original sin, and resolved that Adam should not be without it also; she made him eat and then forced the fruit on the animals, that they might all, without exception, fall under the same condemnation, and become subject to death.
He is said to be friendly, asking God for mercy toward humans, and is, according to Muslim legends, one of the first to obey God's orders to bow before Adam.
In the Secret Book of John, a second-century text found in the Nag Hammadi codices of Gnosticism, Michael is placed in control of the demons who help Yaldabaoth create Adam, along with six others named Uriel, Asmenedas, Saphasatoel, Aarmouriam, Richram, and Amiorps.
Eve ate one of the grains and found it more delicious than anything she had hitherto tasted, so she gave a second grain to Adam.
Hitherto he had fed on roots and berries, and had known nothing of sowing grain; acting under Gabriel's directions, he ploughed the land, but the plough stuck, and Adam impatiently smote one of the oxen, and it spoke to him and said, "Wherefore hast thou smitten me?"
Adam replied, "Because thou dost not draw the plough."
"Adam!" said the ox, "when thou wast rebellious, did God smite thee thus?"
"O God!" cried Adam to the Almighty, "is every beast to reproach me, and recall to me my sin?"
But as the plough was still arrested, Adam dug into the soil, and found that the iron had been caught by the body of his son Abel.
When the wheat was sprung up, Gabriel gave Adam fire from hell, which however he had previously washed seventy times in the sea, or it would have consumed the earth and all things thereon.
The people of Southern America suppose it was the banana, whose fibres form the cross, and they say that thus, in it, Adam discovered the mystery of the Redemption.
There they (Adam and Eve) saw a tree, and found on it solid manna; and wondered at God’s power.
1 They were not very far from the cave, when Satan came towards them, and hid himself between them and the cave, under the form of two ravenous lions three days without food, that came towards Adam and Eve, as if to break them in pieces and devour them.
2 Then Adam and Eve cried, and prayed God to deliver them from their paws.
4 And God said to Adam, “O Adam, what do you seek on the western border?
6 For in this western border, O Adam, there will go from you a descendant, that shall replenish it; and that will defile themselves with their sins, and with their yielding to the commands of Satan, and by following his works.
He is the seventh generation from Adam through Cain, the son of Methusael, and the first man in the Bible said to have two wives, Adah and Zillah.
The title of this page stays The third Adam is earthly.
The story sets out three Adams.
The rulers see the Adam of light.
They find Eve talking with Adam.
They drive Adam and his wife out of the garden, down to the earth they were taken from.
I asked the Savior,“Lord, isn’t it the serpent that caused Adam to eat?”
He smiled and replied,“The serpent caused them to eatin order to produce the wickedness of the desire to reproducethat would make Adam helpful to him.”]
The chief ruler, Yaldabaoth, knew that Because the light-filled Epinoia within Adam Made his mental abilities greater than his own, Adam had been disobedient.In order to recover the Power that he had put into Adam Yaldabaoth made Adam completely forgetful.
He replied, “It is not what Moses wrote in his first book:‘He caused Adam to fall into deep sleep’Rather, Adam’s perceptions were veiledAnd he became unconscious.As he (Yaldabaoth) said through his prophet:'I will make their minds dull so that they do not see or understand.'”]
The light-filled Epinoia hid deep within Adam. The Chief Ruler tried to remove her from his ribcage, But Epinoia cannot be captured.Although the darkness pursued her it did not catch her.
The Chief ruler did remove a portion of his Power from Adam To create a person with a woman’s form Modeled on the light-filled Epinoia that had been manifested to him.He placed the Power removed from the man into the woman.
Adam saw the woman standing next to him. The light-filled Epinoia immediately appeared to him She raised up the veil that dulled his mind. He sobered up from the dark drunkennessAnd he recognized his own counterpart.
The man and woman were too terrified to renounce Yaldabaoth, Who showed his ignorance to his angelsAnd he cast both of them out of paradise Dressing them in heavy darkness. The Chief Archon saw the young woman who was standing by Adam. He realized that the light-filled Epinoia of life was within her. Yaldabaoth became completely ignorant.
[From then until now sexual intercourse has persisted Thanks to the Chief Ruler Who put desire for reproduction into the woman who accompanies Adam. Through intercourse the Ruler caused new human bodies to be produced And he blew his artificial spirit into each of them.]
Adam had intercourse with the image of his foreknowledge (prognosis)He begot a son like the Son of Man And he called that son Seth Modeling him on the heavenly race in the higher realms.
This lineage is part of the genealogy of Cain, the first son of Adam and Eve and the brother of Abel.
I have killed a man for wounding me, a young man for injuring me.24 If Cain is avenged seven times, then Lamech seventy-seven times.”25 Adam made love to his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying, “God has granted me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.”26 Seth also had a son, and he named him Enosh.
25 Adam made love to his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying, “God has granted me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.”
7 Then Adam and Eve took the figs and began to eat of them.
6 Then the angels commanded Adam and Eve to get up and pray forty days and forty nights; when that was done, then Adam was to have sexual intercourse with his wife; for then this would be an act pure and undefiled; so that he would have children who would multiply, and replenish the face of the earth.
7 Then both Adam and Eve received the words of the angels; and the angels departed from them.
8 Then Adam and Eve began to fast and pray, until the end of the forty days; and then they had sexual intercourse, as the angels had told them.
And from the time Adam left the garden until he wedded Eve, were two hundred and twenty-three days, that is seven months and thirteen days.
9 Thus was Satan’s war with Adam defeated.
2 “O Adam, who counselled you, when you came out of the cave, to come to this place?”
3 And Adam said to God, “O Lord, we came to this place because of the heat of the fire, that came over us inside the cave.”
4 Then the Lord God said to Adam, “O Adam, you dread the heat of fire for one night, but how will it be when you live in hell?
5 Yet, O Adam, don’t be afraid, and don’t believe that I have placed this dome of rock over you to plague you with it.
8 And this sign, O Adam, will happen to Me at My coming on earth: Satan will raise the people of the Jews to put Me to death; and they will lay Me in a rock, and seal a large stone over Me, and I shall remain within that rock three days and three nights.
9 But on the third day I shall rise again, and it shall be salvation to you, O Adam, and to your descendants, to believe in Me.
But, O Adam, I will not bring you from under this rock until three days and three nights have passed.”
10 And God withdrew His Word from Adam.
11 But Adam and Eve lived under the rock three days and three nights, as God had told them.
Adam gave Seth secret teachings that would become the Kabbalah.
In the Abrahamic religions, Seth was the third son of Adam and Eve.
He is the only other child of Adam and Eve named in the Bible.
According to Yazidi oral literature, Adam and Eve each deposited their seeds into separate jars.
While Eve's seed developed into insects, Adam's seed gave birth to Shehid ibn Jerr, the ancestor of the Yazidis.
The demiurge creates Adam, during the process unwittingly transferring the portion of power stolen from Sophia into the first physical human body.
He then creates Eve from Adam's rib, in an attempt to isolate and regain the power he has lost.
Ascended the throne after Adam and was considered the greatest of Adam's sons.
Rocail, another son of Adam, was known for his exceptional knowledge and was sent to assist Surkrag, a giant ruler.
Seth was believed to inherit the unfallen image of Adam, with a radiant, divine appearance.
He was a 'younger' brother of Cain, and the second son of Adam and Eve
As he was coming into the Cave of Treasures, and saw the golden rods, the incense and the myrrh, he asked his parents, Adam and Eve, to tell him about them and asked, “Where did you get these from?”
5 Then Adam told him all that had befallen them.
6 Furthermore his father, Adam, told him of the works of God, and of the garden.
9 Then when it was day, Abel came to Adam and Eve, and told them of the vision he had seen.
10 But as to the hard-hearted Cain, Satan came to him by night, showed himself and said to him, “Since Adam and Eve love your brother Abel so much more than they love you, they wish to join him in marriage to your beautiful sister because they love him.
1 But when Adam saw that the older brother hated the younger, he endeavored to soften their hearts, and said to Cain, “O my son, take of the fruits of your sowing and make an offering to God, so that He might forgive you for your wickedness and sin.”
3 Then Abel obeyed his father’s voice, took some of his sowing, and made a good offering, and said to his father, Adam, “Come with me and show me how to offer it up.”
4 And they went, Adam and Eve with him, and they showed him how to offer up his gift on the altar.
But Abel, by reason of his joy at having made his offering, repeated it three times a week, after the example of his father Adam.
And the name of the first race was Asu (Adam), because they were of the earth only; and the name of the second race was I’hin (Abel), because they were capable of being taught spiritual things.
Then Saklas spoke to his angels: "Let us make a human being according to form and according to image." They formed Adam and his wife Eve, who in the cloud is called Zoe.
See: The Apocalypse of Adam
This character is believed to have created the material world and the first human, Adam, with the help of subordinate spirits or powers, often called archons.
Cain and Abel are not the sons of Adam here.
Incarnation of Seth, Seth was the incarnation of the first human: Adam
Enosh, mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, was the son of Seth and the grandson of Adam and Eve.
He is an important link in the lineage from Adam to Noah.
According to Mandaean beliefs and scriptures including the Qolastā, the Book of John and Genzā Rabbā, Abel is cognate with the angelic soteriological figure Hibil Ziwa, (Classical Mandaic:, sometimes translated "Splendid Hibel"), who is spoken of as a son of Hayyi or Manda d-Hayyi, and as a brother to Anush (Enosh) and to Sheetil (Seth), who is the son of Adam.
Elsewhere, Anush is spoken of as the son of Sheetil, and Sheetil as the son of Hibil, where Hibil came to Adam and Eve as a young boy when they were still virgins, but was called their son.
Adam teaches his son Seth about his past, saying that he and Eve were created by the god Sakla out of the earth, but they were once with the eternal God and like great eternal angels.
Adam and Eve are awakened by three persons, who help them remember the eternal being and the seed of the person to whom life has come (Seth).
Adam tells Seth that he will reveal to him what he learned from the three.
Adam and Eve are visited by angels from the heavenly realm who restore their knowledge of the eternal realm.
This is analogous to Satan enlightening Adam and Eve in Genesis, and Yahweh cursing them with death.
In On the Origin of the World, the rulers envy Adam and try to shorten human life.
Genesis 5 gives these lifespans from Adam to Noah:
Adam lived for 930 years.
Seth, Adam’s son, lived for 912 years.
Counted that way, Noah is born 1,056 years after Adam’s creation, and the flood comes in year 1,656.
Sabine Baring-Gould collected Islamic and Jewish legends of Adam in Legends of Old Testament Characters (1871).
In one, Adam’s soul existed long before his body:
The same chapter counts the hours of Adam’s first day:
7 -> Adam married Eve8 -> Cain and his sister were born9 -> They were forbidden to eat of the tree10 -> Adam fell11 -> He was banished from Eden12 -> He felt the sweat and pain of toil
In the legend of Adam’s death, God promised Adam a thousand years.
Adam objects, and the angel reminds him that he gave seventy years of his life to the prophet David.
Adam recoiled with horror, and exclaimed, "God has given me one thousand years; wherefore comest thou now?"
Did Adam and Noah really live over 900 years?
The first time I heard the Adam and Eve story it didn't make much sense.
God creates Adam and Eve, the first humans, and places them in the Garden of Eden.
Tempted by a serpent, Eve eats the fruit from this forbidden tree and gives some to Adam, who also eats it.
According to the “first Eve” account, God fashioned Lilith from dust and placed her in the garden alongside Adam.
However, conflicts arose when Adam attempted to assert dominance over Lilith.
Disagreeing with Adam, Lilith chose to depart the Garden of Eden.
Iblis approached the animals of the world to see which one would bear him into the Garden of Eden so that he could speak with Adam and his wife and tempt them towards evil.
He told her: ‘I will protect you from the children of Adam; you will be under my protection if you get me into the Garden.’ She placed him between her two fangs.
There is much more to disect from the Adam and Eve story, but for now I leave you with this.
There has been much written about the male past lives of Jeshua, including Adam and the father of Zoroaster.
When the newly created Adam got to his feet, the angels fell down, prostrating themselves before him, as Allah had ordered.
(38:73) Then the angels, all of them, prostrated themselves before Adam
Adam – The first humans (homo sapiens sapiens)
What I found interesting is that Adam rides the serpent and eve rides the peacock.
The Adam prototype was made by the beings associated with the serpent and Eve from the beings associated with the peacock?
While this was happening, Iblis approached the animals of the world to see which one would bear him into the Garden of Eden so that he could speak with Adam and his wife and tempt them towards evil.
He told her: ‘I will protect you from the children of Adam; you will be under my protection if you get me into the Garden.’ She placed him between her two fangs.
Adam, in a conversation with his mate, expressed a wish that he and Eve could live forever.
When Iblis overheard this, he realized this was Adam’s weakness, and he came to Adam, hiding in the serpent’s mouth, and offered him eternal life.
Iblis began to weep uncontrollably, and when Adam and Eve heard him, they asked, ‘Why are you weeping?’ Iblis said, ‘I’m weeping for the two of you, because you will die and leave the pleasure and honour you are in.’
Then Iblis whispered in Adam’s ear something that eventually would become a verse in the Qur'an: ‘Shall I lead thee to the Tree of Eternity and to a kingdom that never decays?’ (Qur'an 20:120).
Both Adam and Eve ate of the fruit of the Tree of Eternity, which was the only tree forbidden to them by Allah.
Unlike the Judaeo-Christian version of this story, which blames Eve for first eating the fruit and persuading Adam to do likewise, the Qur'an assigns responsibility equally to Adam and Eve.
The Islamic version also rejects the Christian concept of ‘original sin’ and asserts that Adam and Eve were forgiven for their transgression after they repented.
The early Shi'ite scholar Ibn Babuya al-Qummi (d.991) records the view that the Garden of Eden was not entirely earthly, and that Adam and Eve were sent down to mountain peaks outside Mecca.
Adam landed on Safa, and Eve on Marwa.
Jewish tradition relates that Adam fell down in India on a mountain called Wasim in a valley called Bahil, between the lands of al-Dahnaj and al-Mandal.
(Adam eventually travelled to Mecca and rejoined Eve.)
According to Ibn Ishaq, after Iblis was expelled from the Garden of Eden, he married the serpent whose mouth he had entered when he spoke to Adam, and they had offspring.
An interesting branch of the Adam legend with rich jinn connections involves Lilith, a she-demon of great antiquity whose important role in Semitic lore received its richest embellishment in the late Middle Ages in Jewish Kabbalistic mystical writings particularly prevalent in Spain.
Predated the Adam (Homo Sapiens)
It is said that God created the demons from the semoum (burning wind); that from the demon he created his woman, as he created Eve from Adam; that the demon having had relations with his woman, she became pregnant from him and laid thirty eggs.
Islamic tradition says Allah created the jinn before the creation of Adam.
Jean-Sylvain Bailly read the Dives and the Peris as a real people from before Adam.
According to the Prophet, the inhabitants of Jabulqa and Jabulsa knew neither Adam nor Iblis.
No one in the world had seen a form like that of Adam.
Adam had lain stretched in the same place for the space of about forty years.
Then Hâreth pushed Adam, and the dry earth rattled.
Next to it I set a medieval Islamic tradition of a race of Jinn before Adam, a channeled text called Oahspe, and a long list of small beings from folklore.
It is related in histories that a race of Jinn in ancient times, before the creation of Adam, inhabited the earth, and covered it, the land and the sea … and the favors of God were multiplied upon them, and they had government, and prophecy … and law; but they transgressed and offended, and opposed their prophets, and made wickedness to abound in the earth; whereupon God, whose name be exalted, sent against them an army of angel[s], who took possession of the earth, and drove away the Jinn to the regions of the islands, and made many of them prisoners …
The other is on Who Are the Pre-Adamites?, and it asks who was on the earth before Adam.
The best-known story of a people before Adam is the one in the quote above.
The Jinn fit "before Adam" well and "little" poorly.
Jean-Sylvain Bailly put them before Adam in his letters of 1779.
On dit que Dieu avant la formation d'Adam créa les Dives, & leur donna le monde à gouverner pendant l'espace de sept mille ans.
In English: it is said that God, before the formation of Adam, created the Dives and gave them the world to govern for seven thousand years.
In Oahspe the first race is Adam.
And the name of the first race was Asu (Adam), because they were of the earth only; and the name of the second race was I'hin (Abel), because they were capable of being taught spiritual things.
In Oahspe the I'hins come after Adam, not before.
My Pre-Adamites page says the same: the peoples of Oahspe are not from before Adam.
But Davidson never mentions Adam.
Two of the four put a people before Adam, and in both of those the early people are not small.
The two that have small people do not put them before Adam.
One of the most famous Djinn in Islamic tradition is Iblis (Satan), who refused to bow to Adam and was consequently expelled from paradise.
More in Little People and the races before Adam.
More in Little People and the races before Adam.
Between 1650 and 1654, Athanasius Kircher (2 May 1602 – 27 November 1680) published four volumes of "translations" of hieroglyphs in the context of his Coptic studies. However, according to Steven Frimmer, "none of them even remotely fitted the original texts". In Oedipus Aegyptiacus, Kircher argued under the impression of the Hieroglyphica that ancient Egyptian was the language spoken by Adam and Eve, that Hermes Trismegistus was Moses.
According to the most authoritative Mussulman traditions, Adam was created on Friday afternoon at the Assr-hour, or about three o'clock.