I've just started reading 'Secret Origins Of The Bible' by Tim Callahan. The following is interesting:
That the Jews themselves had problems with the two creation stories is evidenced by a number of midrashic tales used to explain the contradictions between them and to explain what it was about the animals that Adam found unsatisfactory. A midrash is a homiletic commentary on a given story or verse of scripture. Midrashic tales are often used to rationalize biblical discrepancies. To explain how it was that Genesis 1 could say that God created male and female out of the dust while Genesis 2 said that Eve was made from Adam's rib, the Jewish commentators said that the woman created out of the dust of the earth with Adam was Lilith. Considering herself Adam's equal, she refused to take the inferior position in sexual intercourse and left Adam to consort with demons. As part of God's curse on her for her disobedience hundreds of her children are destroyed every day. Therefore, she preys on human children as a night-demon. According to this midrash God made Eve out of part of Adam to ensure her obedience to him. Lilith, originally called Lilitu by the Sumerians, was a death goddess who was incorporated into Jewish myth as a demon long before the midrash turned her into the prototype of the bad girl. Another midrash says that Adam attempted to copulate with each of the animals as he named them, which was how he found that none of them were acceptable.
The mind-set of the writers of these midrashic tales seems to me to maybe be similar to that of whoever wrote a little story about Mohammed and his (first) wife. In it Mo was hearing voices. His wife wanted to know whether the voices were good or evil … so she opened her dress. Mo's voices immediately stopped ... which proved that the voices were not evil.
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I can't say I am shocked.
Does that midrash tale specify if Adam mated with both male and female animals?
Its a wonder that some animals weren't named "8-out-of-ten", or "I'll-call-you-next-week', or 'Its-not-you-its-me."
The Jewish Babylonian Talmud says that it is OK to have sex with animals. It is actually legal in some parts of America today. In Colombia the guys are always screwing the donkies.
There was a wife before Lilith if you look. She was created without skin and Adam could not stand to be near her. There is also the Extended story of Adam and Eve so I know of 5 different accounts. Check around a bit and see if you can find a sixth.
One of my 19th century ancestors was named LILITH DEATH
You can check her out here if you don't believe me.
https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl
SeniorCitizen007,
"That the Jews themselves had problems with the two creation stories is evidenced by a number of midrashic tales used to explain the contradictions between them and to explain what it was about the animals that Adam found unsatisfactory."
Have you ever taken a minute to think how stupid the Jewish creation fairy tales are in Genesis 1 & 2?
So this God creature was in the darkness for a trillion zillion years doing nothing. Then, just 5,779 of our years ago he got a bug up his butt and created the heavens and the earth but he couldn't see them. So he sad "let there be light", which he had never experienced before. He thought that the light was great but he missed the darkness so he divided the light from the darkness. Old habits are hard to break.
Then when he looked at the Earth all he saw was water. Of course he should have been able to walk on water but he didn't want to get his feet wet so he came up with the idea of dry land. After that he came up with the idea that the dry land would look better with a rug on it so he made grass and added some fruit trees and other vegetation.
He is really getting into this creation hobby so he made trillions of stars to decorate the nighttime sky. Then he realized that he sould make a hot light for the day (the sun) and a cool light for the night (the moon). Then he got the idea of putting all sorts of weird creatures in the water and birds in the sky. That worked so well he then created all kinds of animals to roam the land. He threw in bears so that they would kill children in the future when they made fun of him.
But his best idea was to make a replica of himself so he got some muddy dirt and made a male human. But despite having made male and female animals just the day before the dummy only made a male human and not a female to go with it. Then, as the male wandered around the garden naming and screwing the animals the dummy realized that he should have made a human helper for the man. So he then knocked the man out, stole one of his ribs, and made the man a helper. He couldn't let man suffer missing a rib so he yanked the helper's penis off and turned it into a replacement rib for the original man. That is how women came to be and why they don't have an external penis and why they bleed every month. It is an eternal reminder of how God took their penises.
Now the last part of that was in jest but if the writer had made it part of the biblical fairy tale billions of people would have believed it without a second thought. It's too bad the writer didn't include it as part of the fairy tale since it makes as much sense as the rest of the biblical BS.
"“Adam’s Three Wives”
In the beginning, Yahweh created Adam. The first Adam was a hermaphrodite, an androgynous giant, simultaneously male and female. Equipped with four arms, four legs, two heads, two sets of sexual organs, and two bodies joined back to back. But this arrangement made conversation awkward and locomotion next to impossible. So Yahweh decided to separate Adam into two beings. One male, one female. Adam and Lilith.
Lilith was Adam's first wife. She was not only beautiful, with long black hair, but also powerful and intelligent. She was, after all, Adam’s equal. A mirror image of what he was. All was fine between Adam and Lilith until the issue of sex came about. Lilith insisted on being on top, a position of equality, or perhaps even superiority. When Adam refused this arrangement, not wishing to be ‘below’ to his wife, Lilith left.
She headed west towards the Red Sea, and when she got there…the devil was waiting for her. He made her an offer to become his queen and she accepted, becoming the mother of the lilim, the incubi and succubi who have haunted the nights of the sons of Adam and the daughters of Eve ever since."
http://ofepicproportions.blogspot.com/2008/06/adams-three-wives.html
It was then that Yahweh decided to create a second wife for Adam. This wife was made from Adam’s own body. Yahweh pulled a rib from Adam’s chest and formed it into a woman from the ground up; bones, muscle, sinew, blood, mucus, organs, skin, eyes, cartilage, hair, etc… all right in front of Adam. Now, having witnessing this process Adam was so terrified that he refused to go near his new wife, much less name her. Yahweh then saw the error made in creating the wife in front of Adam and did what He could for the woman and destroyed her, though there are those who claimed that she, like Lilith, was permitted to leave the garden though what became of her is a matter of speculation.
Finally Yahweh put Adam to sleep, took a rib from his side, and from it created Eve.