God and umbilical cords...

[RascalPuff]

Did Adam and/or Eve have belly buttons?

http://www.google.com/search?sourcei...+belly+buttons

[Mikal]

Rascalpuff...very thought provoking question. The renditions of meanings applied to the concept of Adam and Eve are of varying strands of information. In one sense they represent the metaphysical stuff of life, the first Mother and Father implying the concept of procreational absolutes and of Family as a priority and beginning of the human experience.
From Jung's perspective Adam was the total oneness of all human experience...a oneness composed of all innumerable strands. Like a lamp with many wicks let us say. Eve represented the purely human instinctual and biological relations. So Eve represented what could have been biological evolution to consciousness.

To the Gnostic viewpoint Adam was the soul and Eve the spirit. Two metaphysical environments seeking to unite in an inner sacred marraige. Also metaphysical stuff related to the elements of the human psyche.

Author Pearce presents the viewpoint also that Eve is the story of biological reality and represents what was probably the first conscious moment.

The Rosacrutians presented the viewpoint that Eve is the lower instincts and Adam the rational mind. Again two metaphysical environments, one within the nature of the instincts and another in the mental environment or mind.

We would ponder that a belly button is a physical part of the body or a scar from birth where attached to the mother but in a metaphysical sense it might imply the meaning that the heart forming as first organ even before the brain in prebirth processes would be a non-physical attachment to the Universal creator or Universal Intelligence. So the umbilical story would have two natures...one physical and the other metaphysical...


Mikal

[RascalPuff]

Didn't expect that question to be fielded so swimmingly. Thank you, Mikal.

[bottomlander]

Dear RascalPuff,

Your question is quite classic and famous. It is also popular to say that Adam and/or Eve were partial imperfect animations of God.

In my wild guess, when Adam was detached from God, and Eve detached from Adam, they both had the scar known as the mark of detachment - belly button. It persists to remind the event of detachment.



Best Regards. Bottomlander

P.S. I haven't read any concerned articles on this topic. Just a wild guess.

[austintorn@aol.com]

Did Adam and Eve have memories implanted of how to do things (that we all learn from growing up from infants)?