The Cosmogonies of Genesis and the Laws of Manu

However, evil soon entered the garden in the form of a serpent. One day when Eve was walking in the garden she encountered the evil serpent who encouraged her to take a fruit from one of God’s forbidden fruit trees. The serpent succeeded in deceiving Eve to take a fruit; she then ate the fruit and shared it with Adam. Then God became angry with Adam and Eve for betraying Him. To punish Adam and Eve, he ejected them from the garden and subjecting them to mortality, painful childbirth, sin and shame.

The serpent eventually persuades Eve to eat from the “Tree of Knowledge”. After she eats from it, she has Adam eat from it. Shortly after, they finally notice they are naked and become self conscious and cover up. God then asks about what they have done and Eve blames Adam, while Adam blames the Serpent. God curses them, and makes Eve suffer through labor and banishes both of them from the Garden of Eden.

Genesis 3 exposes the serpent, also known as the devil. The serpent asks Eve to

In Genesis, God is just known to exist from the beginning and then creates the heaven and the Earth from a “formless void” (CM pg. 77). In a similar fashion, in the Theogony, it was said that in the beginning there was only Chaos, the Abyss (Theogony ln, 116), which implies that Chaos already existed and then from that abyss, Gaia was born, and Gaia represents the Earth. With regards to the intervention by the Gods, this sounds like to me an extension of the externalist theory of Charter theory that both of these are explanations why we act a certain way and also as a way to justify certain morals or ethics that are expected in those cultures. And with the similarities of explaining the creation of Earth from nothingness, that is simply an extension of the externalist theory of Nature Myth, which is a primitive way to explain how things came to be and why they are that way. I find the Charter theory most compelling because it shows and explains why myths are used to justify certain cultural practices and codes that might and shows why it is so important within

Did you know that religious texts are some of our most important documents in history serving as an idea of past. And two famous texts are The first chapter of Genesis and “Creation of Hymn”. These two documents are very similar than they are different, even though they are from different origins. The style, narration, and tone are very different in both texts, but there is a couple of things that they are in common. The idea of emptiness, the description and establishment of darkness, the setting of water, and the origin life.

In the biblical book of Genesis, Eve is tempted by a serpent to commit an ungodly act of eating a forbidden fruit. As a result of the snake's temptation, Eve eats the fruit, resulting in the presence of worldwide sin and the downfall of perfection. From this story of Adam and Eve, the figure of the snake has become generally associated with temptation, evil, and cynicism. William Shakespeare employs this symbolic imagery of snakes in Macbeth, to enhance the story of the rise and fall of Macbeth's power. For poetic and playwright purposes, Shakespeare uses serpentine imagery to reveal the malevolence of characters, and portray the threatening position of the throne, all while provoking a heightened emotion of fear and tragedy from the

The serpent’s punishments were the harshest but he was the most deserving of the punishment. The serpent is punished with a curse. The serpent the only cursed animal “of all the cattle and the creatures of the wild”(2:2) Adam and Eve aren’t cursed but the serpent is.

Serpents also play a big role in both the epic and in Genesis. It says in Genesis 3:1-5, “Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” 2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’” 4 “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. 5 “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”” The serpent in

The serpent is a representative figure in the book of genesis in the Hebrew Bible. The serpent represents Satan, and persuades Eve to eat the fruit God warned her and Adam not to eat. Disoebeying the wishes of God resulted in them being forbidden from living in the garden any longer, and therefore being condemned to a life of struggle and sorrow. The serpent tempted the two into rebellion, Just as Montag is tempted eventually to disobey his guidelines set forth by his society, and pursue

The passage that I choose to write about was Genesis chapter 1 verses 1-5. I choose this passage because I was interested in studying how God supposedly created the earth and turned darkness into a world full of life and spirit. Genesis 1 begins by saying “in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”(NKJV) I think that the purpose of this verse is to summarize the things that God would do in the future. This text tells us that God existed before the heavens and the earth. We also learn that before God started to create, the earth was empty, dark, and lifeless. The text also represents the beginning of everything earthly by saying God will create life on earth and in

Described in the book of Genesis, this story talks about how Adan and Eve were pure, sinless humans, how they were created “in Heavenly Father’s image”. However, they lived under a condition which was to not eat the fruit from a beautiful tree that was planted in the Garden, if they were to disobey God’s commandments, they were going to be punish for it. A snake convinced them to eat the fruit by presenting them good arguments like: being able to see the truth, being able to know everything, and obtain “super powers” just like God’s power. After disobeying, they were punished and expelled from the Garden of

Whatever was present in the beginning had managed to create all the rest, and the description of creators are of three categories, a single creator, multi-creators, and no creator. In Genesis, God is the single creator, and so is Brahman of India. The difference is that the God is immortal, but Brahman is mortal (Genesis, Genesis Project). In Chinese mythology, Pan Gu was the creator of everything but men, who were created by Nu Wa, a goddess (Lin 1-5). Other examples of multi-creators are in the mythology of Egypt and Seneca in which the children of the creator became

One day a serpent came to the Garden of Eden, who happens to be Satan. The

However, they rebel and sin enters the world after a serpent tricks Eve into questioning God’s love and motives. In her gullible innocence, she ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil (Genesis 3). Eve shared the fruit with Adam and they spiritually and physically die. This was catastrophic to Gods Order and led to the condemnation of all human beings (Roman 5:18). Immediately, they

In both creation stories, in the beginning, there was nothing. There was no humans, animals, or planets. In the story, “The Creation and the Emergence” it says, “In the beginning, there was nothing-no earth, no living beings. There was only darkness, water, and Cyclone, the wind. They were no humans but only the Hactin, the Jicarilla supernatural beings.” In the Christian creation story it is stated, “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the spirit of God was hovering over the waters.” So in both of the stories, in the beginning, there was water and darkness. This shows that Christians and Jicarilla Apaches believed that the universe was at