Adam and Eve are Greek Names

You thought that Adam was a Hebrew name. It is not. Neither is Eua (Eve).

How can we say that, it's contrary to the last 2000 years of hoo haa!!!
But we can, because it's a fact.

We have the Linear B and the Greek to show it:

Adam

• see more on Adam for a deep dive on meaning, philology, earliest sources

Eve

Eve doesn't appear in the Greek Septuagint Genesis but Eua (Εὐά) and Zoue (Ζωή) does.

Εὐά – Ζωή: the Bacchic Cry that Restores Animated Life Force

In the Greek Septuagint, Eve is more accurately read as Εὐά–Ζωή, not a neutral personal name but a ritual-functional designation. The form Εὐά transparently aligns with εὐάς (εὐάδος), attested in Orphic and classical sources as “one who cries εὐαί”—a Bacchic initiate or ecstatic maiden (κούρη) whose identity is constituted by ritual voice rather than genealogy (Orph. Hymn 49.1). LSJ preserves both the substantive sense (female participant in Dionysiac rites) and the adjectival extension (Bacchic, frenzied), while Hesychius records Εὔας as a name of Dionysos, demonstrating that the cry itself could function as a divine epithet. This establishes a clear ritual chain: εὐαί (performative cry) → εὐάς (ecstatic role) → Εὔας (divine identity), in which sound, function, and divinity collapse into a single semantic field.

Hesychius equates:

• ζωή with ψυχή (psyche/soul)
• and with τὸ ζῆν (“the act/state of living”)
• ψυχή psuche - breath; animating principle; that which departs at death; life-force

Ζωή, as Hesychius glosses it (ζωή· ζωή, ψυχή, τὸ ζῆν), denotes not narrative “life” but the animating condition itself—the vital force or breath (ψυχή) that distinguishes living beings (ζῶντα) from inert matter. When Εὐά is associated with ζωή, the language is technical rather than sentimental: the Bacchic cry is the operative agent that restores ζωή. Directionality is crucial. The cry does not express life; it reactivates it, calling the initiate back from a liminal, deathlike collapse into restored animation. This explains her designation as μήτηρ πάντων τῶν ζώντων—not a domestic ancestor of humans, but a source-principle of reanimation for all living beings. Read this way, Εὐά is a φωνητικόν boēthos—a battle partner in ritual danger—whose responsibility is nothing less than to bring the initiate back from near-death and complete the catharsis. Far from a “helper” in the diminished sense, she is the operator of resurrection within the rite.

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Greek Sources

2 Enoch

2 Enoch says Αδάμ gets his name from the first letters of the names of the cardinal directions namely

A from East (Anatole)
D from West (Dysis)
A from North (Arktos)
M from South (Mesembria)

Greek Anthology

The Greek Anthology says the same thing, ADAM and the four directions: