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Adam and Eve Converse with a Snake

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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