Kramodlog
Naked and living in a barrel
I..I don't know that there is a word for what I'm thinking.
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I..I don't know that there is a word for what I'm thinking.
But, I still like my theory that Adam & Eve werent the only ones on the planet, and they were created to be the pinnacle of humankind, the perfect specimen or whatever.
I thought Lilith was more of a Jewish thing and didnt make it into any Christian texts?
Adam had a third son named Seth. Genesis 5: 4-5 "And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters"
Seth obvously was able to reproduce via parthenogenesis.
Thus my comment about Apocrypha. Though, why are you worried about it being a Christian text, specifically? Adam, Eve, Cain, Abel, and Seth appear in all the Abrahamic religions.
Clearly, the Bible itself doesn't actually resolve the question - they do not say where Seth gets a wife/partner, merely that he begets children. We must make suppositions. What would you prefer - to suppose new things not in the texts at all, or things from texts that don't happen to be included in some specific anthology gathered in the 1500s, but are part of the overall Judeo-Christian tradition?
Other Apocrypha are more clear - that Seth marries his sister Azura. But it is from the Book of Jubilees, from 2nd century BC, and so not a "Christian" text either, as it is not considered canon, and from a couple hundred years before the Christian church.
it amuses me that the Bible avoids thoughts of incest here and yet explicitly includes it in the story of Lot. Then again perhaps the biblical account acknowledges that Adam and eve were the first Cro-Magnons and that the people in the Land of Nod were neanderthals (and thus not truely humans) that would explain why Adam and Eve were special but Seth was able to find a wife.
.despite being polytheistic my culture explicit acknowledges that incest was necessary for humanity to exist. The story being that the Procreator god mated with various divine females to give birth to various living things including dragons, rocks, magma, trees and birds. He then goes and ask his mother Earth where he will find the mortal essence and is sent to her pubic mound where he finds the first woman. He mates with her and has a daughter (the dawn) who he also later takes to wife and thus descends the first humans. When the daughter discovers that her husband is also her father she is horrified and flees into the underworld thus opening the pathway to death.
So we have an explicit acknowledgement that mating with mothers and daughters was required but also condemnation of the practice as leading to death