Image: Why Adam Sinned, A 1904 Sheet Music Cover
Source: Licensed through Wikimedia Commons (here)
Note: Jabal ar Rahmah ( Mount of Mercy) where it was believed Adam and Eve was
reunited after their wanderings. Spinsters have been known to pray there in the hope of
being rewarded with a man of their dreams.
Therein Adam and
Eve, Man and Woman destined
to create a lineage
Succumbed to the snake's
guiles, whence united at the
Jabal ar Rahmah
What would the outcome
be if bite of the apple
had not been taken
Humankind within
Heaven's gates still wallowing
in all luxuries?
Written for Chev's CARPE DIEM #191 with prompt The Lovers (VI) Tarot
Powerful and fun.
ReplyDeleteAloha
just imagine how fat and lazy we would have been then....hmm....smiles...it was heaven...and we still needed something more...now that is completely human...i am sure we would have found another way
ReplyDeleteA very different take on the prompt. Nicely done!
ReplyDeleteHumans always looking for more, seems to always be the way
ReplyDeleteGood question!!Lovers
ReplyDeleteNo boundaries for lovers.
ReplyDeleteI like the idea of reuniting.....a great question: What if...?
ReplyDeleteI once wrote a song about exactly that question, What if..." and came up with this:
ReplyDeleteIf the apple had not been taken, Adam and Eve would not have been thrown out the garden, humankind would never have really started, flawed as we are. Moses wouldn't have wandered 40 years, the Torah would never have been written, and, for Christians, "We'd never have known/Never been shown God's son."
See, this all works if we accept the premise of Adam and Eve, but for me, it's a way of explaining Creation during a time when they didn't even know that men's X or Y was responsible for determining the gender of the child... you know what I mean, I'm not a Bible literalist! But I am a pastor's wife, so go figure. We're way liberal, I guess... thanks, Hank! Amy
Invariably we fall back on logics to counteract or even question the origin of Man from the Book and we still get questions unanswered. We take a liberal view as opposed to the strict religious views. It boils down to beliefs. The believers of whatever creed sticks to their version. Only a fanatical few tries to impose their will on others that create problems for everyone else!
DeleteHank
Yeah that might have been the case, but I prefer this worldly life with all its ups and downs :-)
ReplyDeleteHow is the saying ... an apple a day keeps heaven away???
ReplyDeleteadam sinned
ReplyDeletenot just for any apple
the apple of his eye
Cheers!
JzB
I've often wondered this myself, seems the fall was inevitable.Nicely done!
ReplyDeleteI love old sheet music - what a find
ReplyDeleteYour history intertwined well with the thoughts of what might have been
For everything that happened, it was the Will of the Almighty who is the Creator of the Universe and the heavens above. Thus we are where we are now.
ReplyDeleteHowever, more times than not, how they end in say disaster.
ReplyDeleteWhat was sharing experiences has become fair game for
your degradation of scruples.
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