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The Bible story of the apple was probably originally a birds-and-the-bees type talk. Probably for girls. (lemm.ee)
submitted 7 months ago by JeSuisUnHombre@lemm.ee to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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The snake (of the trouser variety) tempts Eve with the forbidden fruit (hanky panky) that she shares with Adam. The consequence of which is painful childbirth.

They're even specifically stated to be naked for this situation.

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago

Well, the whole "garden" thing is after a lot of translations...

Don't focus on the name, focus on how it's described.

It's a pretty on the nose description of a hunter/gather lifestyle. Obviously idealistic, but all evidence of hunter gather lifestyles we have, is it was pretty chill the vast majority of the time. Especially compared to early agriculture which was basically slave labor.

People needed a reason not to dip out and go back to living in the forests until human population increased to the point that wasn't possible.

The Abrahmic religions were a great tool for that, especially since it replaced earlier pagan religions.