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Garden of Eden In the beginning AE0020 Costume Eve: Topless with fig leaves. Adam: Barechested with fig leaves. Eve is TMLBAP. N-6. Inguinal. Adam is TMLCAP. N-6. Inguinal Actions Eve feeds the snake an apple while Adam gestures toward her groin with one hand and holds a branch and a bird aloft in his other (1). Domestic animals rest at their feet. Commentary Eve shares her knowledge with Adam, and also apparently the snake. Despite this the snake remains naked and unashamed. God, irritated that his subjects have disobeyed him and gained sexual knowledge, bans them from the swimming hole, and his subjects, embarrassed, cover themselves up. Ever since, many Judeo-Christians have remained determined to keep people ignorant about sex. Source Painting by Albrecht DŸrer circa 1500, scanned from John Canaday, "Albrecht DŸrer," Horizon, Summer, 1964, p.25. 1 picture. |
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