Interestingly enough, this is not the post I was working on! Not by a long shot! That's been on the back burner for over a week. However, I got the concept for my extremely speculative answer rather suddenly late last night/early this morning--it was such that my mind felt illuminated and engaged the entire time I was writing, as if someone had it to dictate--and I sat down for about five or six hours just now to write about five or six pages. The result is after the jump. It's certainly controversial in some of its elements depending on how literally one believes the Eden story, but I really enjoyed writing it. To avoid confusion, please note that I exchanged the English "Eve" for the Hebrew "Hawwah" throughout. "Adam" apparently is already as Hebrew as I'm going to get.
And one last thing before you go and read: I love this story. I don't get stuff like this coming through my brain very often and I felt inspired. Whether this is "gospel truth" or not, I don't know--none of us knows--but I feel that it could be. It could be close to the original series of events in the Garden of Eden, as told before patriarchal culture took the Creation mythology and recorded it as we have it today. Whether it's pure truth or pure fiction or somewhere in between, I hope this take on the story of our origins touches your heart and feeds your soul the way it did mine.
