Sublime

Eve was drawn by the Serpent into evil through a focus on her own sensations, desires, and self-perceptions

In most Semitic languages, ‘Eve’ means ‘snake’ or even ‘female snake’. The name of our ancestral biblical mother hides an archaic animist myth, according to which snakes are not our enemies, but our ancestors.

Thus, it is quite reasonable within a biblical context to see Eve as a type of Pandora fig- ure,28 who is to be commended for bringing sex into this world.

Genesis begins, of course, with a story of creation and curiosity. The first woman, Eve, wants to partake of the one tree forbidden to her, representing the knowledge from which she and Adam are prohibited. Curious to know good and evil, she eats—that is, she reaches for, grasps, tugs, acquires, ingests, and consumes—a single piece of fruit from th

Eve didn’t come from Adam’s feet, to get walked on. She didn’t come from his head, to top him. She came from his side to be his equal, from under his arm to enjoy his protection, from near his heart to experience his love.