Eve
Black Granite, 240 cms
<>This is a sculpture of
Eve,
‘the Mother of all Living’. She’s a mature woman of about 45,
compassionate,
forgiving, truly wise.
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Hebrew tribal lore has it that the adam (meaning,
‘made of red dust’), prior to being raised by God to peer group status
with the
gods, to wit: “Behold, the man has become as one of us,…”, rather than
‘fall’,
as deliberate Christian misinterpretation would have it, renamed the
woman
“Life (i.e. chavvah, Hebrew, meaning: life), the Mother of all
Living”.
Hence it is Eve you must thank for being alive.
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Following St Paul’s false
lead, the Early Church Fathers, woman haters all, first denigrated,
then
debased, finally dehumanized Eve, and via her all women, by claiming
(i.e. with
Tertullian, much admired by Pope Benny 16), that Eve (and every woman)
‘is the
gateway to the Devil’, and which resulted in the Church’s psychological
and
physical abuse of women down the ages.
The fact is, Eve was
the greatest woman who ever lived. Without her the adam
would
still be rooting around in the Garden in Eden, sucking on fruits, and
none of
us would have been born to experience and enjoy this wonderful world.