Show THE LEGENDARY ADAM AND EVE some curious carious particular 0 F furnished by arre jewish r to the scriptural account of the creation and fall of adam and eve the jewish writers of the talmud have added many curious carious par particulars ticul a rs according to these myth mongers bongers says saya the st louis republic adam when first f ire t C created re a t ea was a giant of giants as aa far as stature g awa gwa os his head reaching into the heavens and his countenance outshining out shining the sun in all its splendor in one place they tell us that athe the very angels aneals stood in awe of the man which god had prea created ted and all creatures hastened to worship him then the lord in order to civo t the he angels angela some idea of hi his Is power caused a deep sleep to over adam and while he was in a comatose condition removed a portion of every limb arid bonel the first man thus lost a part of his colossal stature yet he remained perfect and complete next the first helpmeet for the lord of creation was created in the person of lili lilith h who forsook adam to become the mistress of the air and the mother of demons after the departure of lilith eve was created and married to adam in the presence of jehovah and the angels the sun moon and stars dancing together to the angelic music rendered then the supreme happiness of the human pair excited the envy of eai even the angels angel sand and the seraph sammaul tempted them and finally succeeded in bringing about their the ir fa fall U fr from orn innocence according to the koran all the angels paid homage to adam ex capt eblis who on account of his re fasal f 8 toi to do was expelled from para dise to gratify a spirit of reven revenge gei eblis loitered about the gateson gates of the gar garden den hatching discord until at last lasi he succeeded in separating the first couple whom god had bad joined together 11 the record of the wanderings of the unhappy pair after their expulsion from the garden is very interesting but too long to even give a synopsis of it here heie suffice it to say that adam lived as a penitent on the very ground now occupied by the temple at mecca and eve in a cave on the side of mount ararat where after a lapse of two hundred years she was rejoined to adam |