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.

  • esc27@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I’ve wondered about this before, but it seems like a coincidence.

    As I understand it, serpent type monsters are one of the oldest surviving concepts from ancient myths and stories, and are usually more associated with evil or chaos than sex.

  • PoastRotato@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Nah, the nakedness was meant to symbolize humanity gaining self-awareness, which separates them from the purity and innocence of other animals. After Adam and Eve eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, they realize they’re naked and feel instinctively ashamed of that (as most people would, but regular animals wouldn’t), so they cover themselves with leaves. In fact IIRC, the fact that they’re covering themselves up is what tips off God that they ate the fruit.

    • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Which begs the question what the actual intention behind the allegory was.

      I suspect that pursuing knowledge is bad and you should not do it and trust in god instead? It fits with the church’s then (and partially now) stance I suppose.

    • irish_link@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      I think you are confusing what OP is saying with what the Bible says.

      I took it more along the lines of “this story existed and was originally meant to teach young girls not to be tempted” and then the writers of the Bible came along. They used a common story to help with the point they were trying to get across.

      This is not too far off from what is commonly known about pivoting the pagan ritual for the winter solstice and dressing up a pine tree. Now know as Christmas tree.

  • Blaster M@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Associating the original sin with sex is how you get people to confess and “donate” at collections, and it way overassumes what actually happened.

    The original sin was theft, then lying about said theft, then blaming god for his (Adam’s) own mistakes.

    God asked them to baby make before all this. They did not try for baby until after all this went down.

  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I looked at it as an unintended evolution story, but your take is far better.

    Man’s happily swinging through the trees, picking fruit, easy life. Then he gets smart. Now babies have huge heads, causing miserable childbirth. Now man is aware of his mortality, something many animals don’t understand.

    Since we’re no longer foraging, we have to farm, toil for our food. And we gotta wear clothes.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    It was an update of Prometheus.

    He gave fire to humans

    Lucifer (the lightbringer) brought humans the knowledge of agriculture. And humanity left behind the “garden”. Which was an allegory for hunter/gather society.

    Which led to the concept of land ownership, vasly increases how much personal property someone could accumulate, and was pretty shit for the average human.

    Having them be naked was more to make people think of pre-agriculture as pre-human.

    Can you imagine how hard it was to convince people to work 10-14 hours a day for someone else’s profit when for thousands of years their ancestors had a much easier life?