Genesis Translation from Source

Cast of Characters
Kurios, Eua, Ophis, Adam (left to right)

Kurios, and Adam
Forming by education (eplasen'ing) Adam's psyche/soul using earth-based pharmakon

Kurios, Eua, and Adam
Eua from Adam's side

Ophis gives Adam gnosis (of beauty/oppression), by the tree, in the Paradise
Eua Boethos (partner in battle) supplies the bacchic cry of life in the rite
Kurios watches with concern
(spoiler: There may not even be a tree)

• Summary - There are 2 readable layers in this text
  • Layer 1 — The Public / Surface Reading
  • Layer 2 — The Esoteric / Priestly Reading
• Why Greek?
• Source Text
• Cast of Characters and Locations
• Εὐά – Ζωή: the Bacchic Cry that Restores Life
• Translation
  • 1 - Genesis 1
  • 2 - Genesis 2
  • 2:1-3
  • 2:4
  • 2:5
  • 2:6 - water springs from the earth, watering the earth
  • 2:7 - Kurios molded the human's psyche/soul, using earth/metallika pharmacy
  • 2:8 - A Paradise is built in the East and the human is sent there
  • 2:9 - the instrument by which one comes to gnosis with what is beautiful/fitting and what is oppressive/harmful
  • 2:10
  • 2:11–14 The four rivers which give Edem's location, but it's not geographic, it's mental
  • 2:15-17 PARADISE & FORBIDDEN EATING
  • 2:15 - placing the human's mental state into paradise
  • 2:16 - do not eat from the wooden thing that gives you gnosis of beauty and oppression
  • 2:17 - except from the wooden thing of gnosis of what is beautiful and oppressive
  • 2:18 - it's not good to be alone, let's make a battle partner
  • 2:19 - more education from the earth dust, of earth beasts and sky birds, psychic animated force, were their name.
  • 2:20 - Adam calls names to Gaia creatures, Ouranos creatures, and Wild/Untamed/Venomous creatures, looking for a partner in battle
  • 2:21 - Theos forcefully applied ecstasy to Adam, and put him to sleep. Takes a side and replenish it.
  • 2:22 - Kurios Theos educates a woman using Adam's side
  • 2:23 - Adam gives his communion, calls her woman, because she was educated from her man
  • 2:24 - this is why a person shall leave their parents, and be bound to their woman, and the two shall be one flesh
  • 2:25
  • 3 - Genesis 3
  • 3:1
  • 3:2–3 (Eua responds)
  • 3:4
  • 3:5
  • 3:6
  • 3:7
  • 3:8–19 (Meeting with Kurios; consequences)
  • 3:20 — The Role Naming
  • 3:21–24 (Garments; expulsion; cheroubim with the turning sword)
  • 4 - Genesis 4
  • 4:1-7 - Cain and Abel
  • 4:1
• Adam and Eve's names analysis
• Analysis from Dr Hillman

Summary - There are 2 readable layers in this text

In Genesis, there are two layers.

• Layer 1 - for the public masses who are unaware
• Layer 2 - for the priesthood familiar with their own mystery rites

We will show how a second semantic layer can be read without violating the first.

Layer 1 — The Public / Surface Reading

Genesis 1 the one God creates the universe in an ordered sequence across six days—light, sky/sea, land and plants, heavenly lights, animals, and finally humans—declaring it all “very good.” Humans are made uniquely “in God’s image,” given responsibility to rule/care for other living things, and told to multiply and fill the earth.

Genesis 2 retells creation in a more intimate, ground-level way: God forms the first human, places him in a garden paradise (Eden), provides abundant food, and gives one boundary—don’t eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Because “it’s not good for the human to be alone,” God makes a matching partner: the first woman, presented as the man’s counterpart, and this grounds the later ideal of marriage (“the two become one flesh”).

Genesis 3 is “the Fall”: a serpent persuades the woman (and then the man) to eat the forbidden fruit. Their eyes are “opened,” they realize they are naked, and shame and fear enter. God confronts them; they blame each other and the serpent; and God announces consequences—pain in childbirth, hardship in work, conflict, and eventual death. They are expelled from Eden so they won’t eat from the tree of life and live forever in this broken state; access is guarded.

Genesis 4:1 begins life outside Eden: the man and woman have a child (Cain), and the story is moving into the first generation of human history after exile.

Layer 2 — The Esoteric / Priestly Reading

Genesis 1 — Read at Level 2 in the Greek, Genesis 1 is not a creation story but a rite-script for ordering an initiate’s inner kosmology (κόσμος). Theos functions as the guiding role that brings the initiate’s inner structure to its τέλος, marking stages (“days”) as phases of restructuring rather than clock-time. The sequence culminates in κατάπαυσις - cessation because the ordered steps are complete.

Genesis 2 - A lord of the realm who guides in such rites, the Kurios Theos then “molds” (πλάσσει) the human (ἄνθρωπος) from earth - language that resonates with kollourion or lemnian earth visionary pharmakon plaster substances and the eiodolonic (guidance through imagery) craft of re-configuring ψυχή into ψυχὴ ζῶσα, a living animating principle which figuratively "breathes pneuma (πνοὴ) of animated life force (ζωῆς)" into the initiate.

The planted paradise (παράδεισος) in Edem becomes the staged grove-temple where two trees represent two powers: ζωή (the reanimating life-force) and γνῶναι (experiential knowing). The search for an equal battle partner to serve in the role to give the cry of animating life force, then comes imposed ἔκστασις and sleep (passed out or coma), the ambiguous "side" (pleura/πλευρά) of Adam (while ecstatic-sleeping) is utilized (perhaps it's the woman by his side, perhaps it's his feminine side, perhaps it's surgery but imagined/symbolic within a mental rite). Wherever the side is, the woman is obtained from there and then formed/molded or constructed (οἰκοδομέω) as a new ordered configuration architecturally (as kosmos structure).

Genesis 3 - The commands apothaneisthe thanatou (ἀποθανεῖσθε θανάτῳ) and its reversal "not" apothaneisthe thanatou (οὐ θανάτῳ ἀποθανεῖσθε) encode the rite’s central paradox: a dying-away of something that is not biological death—the controlled collapse and return that produces fearlessness and new sight (dianoixhthesontai humoun oi ophthalmoi / “διανοιχθήσονται ὑμῶν οἱ ὀφθαλμοί”).

Finally, she is role-named as Ζωή (“μήτηρ πάντων τῶν ζώντων”) that animating life force. It's a rite-function: the operator of reanimation - Eua Zoe (Εὐά–Ζωή), the Bacchic euai cry that animates life force, which calls life back from the brink. Eua (Εὐά) is a phounetikon (φωνητικόν) boethos (βοηθός) battle partner whose voice completes catharsis and “mothers” new lives by bringing the initiate their psychic/soul (ψυχή) animating life force (ζῶσα).

Genesis 4 - (TODO.... write this...)

Why Greek?

• Always best to go to the primary source!
• Greek is more detailed, technical, and thus includes more information, there's a lot more nuance and detail in the Greek than there is in the Hebrew or Hebrew-derived versions (Latin or English). The Hebrew is a far less expressive language, and all derivatives from the Hebrew suffer from similar simplifications.
• Greek is the Original Language of Christianity - The apostles wrote in Greek, and exclusively referenced the Greek Septuagint (290BCE). If you're not reading Greek, you're not reading the Bible!
  • Greek is the authoritative source for the early Christian cult
  • It's the language and level of detail followed by the priesthood and apostles.
  • The Orthodox Christians never moved away from it, for a reason.
• Old Testament Greek Origins - why the Greek Septuagint of 290BCE appears to be the original body of work before the Hebrew translations.

Source Text

Cast of Characters and Locations

Εὐά – Ζωή: the Bacchic Cry that Restores Life

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.

• 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.

Translation

1 - Genesis 1

In the beginning there was... a mystery rite / initiatory experience:

• INSIDE: This is a depiction of the aionic realm inside the initiate's psyche/mind. The restructuring of the kosmic order/structure of their mind.
• OUTSIDE: Later, we will see Kurios guiding the initiate with e.g. created trees, animals, naming them, etc...

This looks like a creation myth, but it is structuring / forming (plasen/πλασεν) the aionic realm inside the initiate's psyche/mind, foreshadowing the rite in Genesis 2.

2 - Genesis 2

2:1-3

The pattern of staged progression → completion → cessation matches known initiatory logic. (structural comparison, emphasis is on telos, not timekeeping)

From Robert Anton Wilson's Prometheus Rising, he describes Days of the Week as code for stages of mental progression (ascension) as levels of human consciousness. Which, these seem to line up similarly here for the rite, as well:

• 6th day is the god Saturn/Kronos's day - the timeless aionic realm
• 7th day is the Sun or god Helios's day - unity mind, divine mind, ascension

After initiation with entheogens, the mind must rest.

Theos (god) is a title given to an enlightened mind, like Buddha.

• Theos (θεός) - an agent, a role, a functional title. One who gives the guidance in the rite, or, the god-mind / unity-mind - one who guides better have that too.
• In early Greek, θεός is a role-word before it is a metaphysical definition, a guiding agent, a power operating at a higher level, an ordering intelligence

Here we see:

1. A cosmic order is completed (κόσμος).
2. A cycle of works reaches its telos.
3. Activity ceases, not because of depletion, but because completion has occurred.
4. The seventh stage/day is differentiated (blessed, set apart).
5. The cessation (because telos has been reached), applies specifically to the initiated cycle of making.
6. Cosmic Egg mechanics, with the splitting of sky and earth

That’s it.
No metaphysics are named.
No cosmology is spelled out.

But the pattern is clear.

2:4

• more kosmos imagery setup, 2:1 - 2:6 here.
• Cosmic Egg mechanics, with the splitting of sky and earth

2:5

• more kosmos imagery setup, 2:1 - 2:6 here.

2:6 - water springs from the earth, watering the earth

• more kosmos imagery setup, 2:1 - 2:6 here.
• possibly (also) referring to the 'earth' pharmakon in the next 2:7 section... referring to mixing up a plaster.

2:7 - Kurios molded the human's psyche/soul, using earth/metallika pharmacy

• eplasen (ἔπλασεν) - generally, mould, form by education (paedea), training.

Theos formed (educated) the human - This is what we've been describing above, to this point

• Genesis 1.1 - 2.6 describes internal aionic mind kosmic ordering, for an initiate.

The Theos has been forming/educating the initiate's soul/psyche (ψυχὴν):

• here, the human already exists
• the Kurios Theos (person with divine authority) educates the soul/psyche (ψυχὴν) of the human.
• here we are talking about paideia (παιδεία) - education or formation of the young (or unformed).
• refer to How God Formed Man for the mechanics of how we "mold a human" using Pharmakon and enlightenment, to bring their psyche to a more divine level.

Here we see Adam, and Adam's title is "the human" (ton anthroupon / τὸν ἄνθρωπον), (sex-indeterminate / generic human).

Theos is a role/title, of someone initiated into the mystery, with Kurios leading that mystery for others.

• χοῦν — dust, earth, loose soil
• ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς — from the earth/ground

In Ancient Greek medical, ritual, pharmacological:

• special earths (especially Lemnian Earth) is a substance used to create Kollourion cakes, embedded with pharmakon, which are used to Christ the eyes of someone so that they may "see". This is a practice seen e.g. in the christian cult in Revelation 3:18, and others.
  • purifying, psychoactive, formative, they are used to reconfigure bodily and psychic states

Genesis repeatedly uses πλάσσω (“mold”), and keeps Adam in a state of guidance, evaluation, incompletion, it matches the logic of earth-based formative rites, even if the name Lemnian or Kollourion is not spoken.

This marks the beginning of Adam's paidea education of his psyche/soul.

• enephusesen (ἐνεφύσησεν) - blow
• eis (εἰς) - into
• prosoupon (πρόσωπον) - his face, countenance
• pnoen zoues (πνοὴν ζωῆς) - blowing blast of animated life force. the breath of Hephaestus, i.e. flame. pneuma is "the breath of life", but also enlightenment, divinity (which is a word for higher consciousness, a divine mind, or one who acts as the gods would)

• egeneto (ἐγένετο) - come into a new state of being (from the LSJ)
• anthroupos (ἄνθρωπος) - human (masculine form)
• eis (εἰς) - resulted in
• psuche zousan (ψυχὴν ζῶσαν) - psyche/soul (ψυχὴν) to animated life (ζῶσαν)

Brought the human's psyche/soul (ψυχὴν) to animated life (ζῶσαν), as an enlightened human

2:8 - A Paradise is built in the East and the human is sent there

• eplasen (ἔπλασεν) - generally, mould, form by education (paedea), training

More confirmation of the education, and not mundane creating or "molding".

2:9 - the instrument by which one comes to gnosis with what is beautiful/fitting and what is oppressive/harmful

Is this really a tree? Perhaps it's a wooden implement or structure associated with ritual use...

• zulon (ξύλον) - wood as material; by extension a wooden object, tree, or instrument made of wood
  • It can be a tree, but the Greek does not require it, and in this verse it is intentionally ambiguous.
  • Ancient Greek texts often refer to the thing by which knowing happens, which mirrors "τὸ ξύλον τοῦ γνῶναι" here.
  • ξύλον is deliberately underspecified here
  • basically: “the wooden thing by means of which gnosis is undergone”
  • Mystery language avoids naming implements directly
    • what is shown
    • what is handled
    • what is undergone
  • zulon (ξύλον) fits this euphemistic register.
  • Usage across the LXX? LXX repeatedly uses ξύλον for: instruments, posts, gallows, ritual wood, cultic structures, execution devices. Without changing the noun

Beauty and Oppression (which is more nuanced, different, than moral "Good" and "Evil"):

• καλόν tends toward harmony; πονηρόν toward damage and breakdown.
• kalon (καλὸν) - beautiful - fitting, harmonious, effective. (is not moralized as "good", too simple)
• poneron (πονηρόν) - oppressed by toils - toilsome, oppressive, injurious, damage, burden, corrosion, disharmonious. ("evil" or "bad", also too simple)

Gnosis (γιγνώσκω / γνῶναι) means:

• to recognize through encounter
• to learn by undergoing
• to come into awareness through experience
• not simple knowledge, but an experiential acquisition of knowledge
• aligns perfectly with:
  • initiation language
  • medical diagnosis language
  • mystery-rite vocabulary
  • pharmacological experience
• reinforced by
  • καλόν = fitting, harmonious, effective
  • πονηρόν = harmful, burdensome, damaging
  • These are evaluative outcomes of experience, not commandments of good vs evil.
  • You discover them by exposure.
    • Exactly how:
      • medicine works
      • drugs work
      • rites work
      • initiations work
• γνῶναι is experiential knowing
  • it is the event that produces gnosis
  • it implies participation, exposure, initiation

There are 2 trees:

• the tree of the life (re)animating force (zoues / ζωῆς) - (located: middle of the paradise)
  • zoues (ζωῆς) - life (re)animating force
• the tree of the gnosis (experiential knowledge) of good and evil - (location unknown)
  • gnounai (γνῶναι) - gnosis, not just knowledge, but experiential knowledge.

Location: Remember we are in a paradise, like the one common at emperor's palaces, "In the east".
Sacred groves were very important to Hellenic and pre-Hellenic peoples.
These trees could signify sacred spaces, possibly glades/temples where the (ophis) serpent-priesthood specializes in animating/forming/moulding different aspects of the initiate's psyche (remember heschius defines ζωῆς as psuche? that life animating force).

2:10

2:11–14 The four rivers which give Edem's location, but it's not geographic, it's mental

This is one of the classic unsolved problems

Often called:

• “The location of Eden”
• “The four rivers of Paradise”
• “The problem of Pishon and Gihon”

the problem only exists if you insist it’s a map.

this is a very old and very famous debate.

• No, there is no consensus solution.
• Many scholars now quietly accept it is non-geographic.
• Very few articulate why

However...
Neoplatonists, Orphics, and medical writers all used:

• one source → four outflows
• four rivers / winds / elements / faculties
• precious stones + metals as markers of potency (see Alchemy and Alchemical Symbol Lexicon for more on this)
• encircling flows as boundary principles

These 4 winds, rivers... This is exactly how:

• Plato maps the soul,
• medical writers map bodily humors,
• mystery traditions map initiation stages.

But biblical studies almost never reads Genesis inside that discourse, especially not through Greek.

• Reading rivers as archai (ἀρχαί) - governing principles, not scenery
• Recognizing mineral lists as initiatory markers, not travel notes

2:15-17 PARADISE & FORBIDDEN EATING

2:15 - placing the human's mental state into paradise

• eplasen (ἔπλασεν) - generally, mould, form by education (paedea), training
• paradeisou (παραδείσῳ) - enclosed garden / cultivated sacred park
  • enclosed park, garden, pleasure-garden, royal park
  • Persian loanword originally
  • Often used for:
    • royal gardens
    • enclosed cultivated spaces
    • later: “paradise”
• ergazesthai (ἐργάζεσθαι) - work
• phulassein (φυλάσσειν) - guard

placed him in the paradise - could refer to the eplasen (molded/formed by education) as guidance during the rite. The Kurios may be mentally placing this human into a mental paradise or cultivated space. Prior work: Priestesses in oracular rites often sang hymns to place imagery (eidolon) into the initiates mind, to guide their mental state.

2:16 - do not eat from the wooden thing that gives you gnosis of beauty and oppression

Notice that Adam (τῷ Ἀδὰμ) is now named, no longer "the human" (τὸν ἄνθρωπον).

• apo (ἀπὸ) - from
• pantos (παντὸς) - every / all
• zulon (ξύλου) - wooden thing (instrument)
• paradeisou (παραδείσῳ) — paradise
• brouse phage (βρώσῃ φαγῇ) - you may freely eat / eat without restriction

2:17 - except from the wooden thing of gnosis of what is beautiful and oppressive

• zulon (ξύλου) - wooden thing (instrument)
• ginouskein (γινώσκειν) - the process or event by which gnōsis is produced through encounter.
  • the verb form for the process that produces gnōsis (experiential knowledge).
    • gnousis (γνῶσις) = the state/result (knowledge possessed)
    • ginouskein (γινώσκειν) = the act/process (coming-to-know)
• kalon (καλὸν) - beautiful/fitting
• poneron (πονηρόν) - oppressive / harmful

What's the wooden thing? If its a rod that gives gnosis, then perhaps some alignment with Asclepian and Echidnaic alabastron medical applicator used in those rites, but we may never know exactly.

• apothaneisthe (ἀποθανεῖσθε) - you will die away completely
• thanatou (θανάτῳ) - by death

Odd language here, a clue to our Level 2 reading:

• Dont eat from the wooden thing, it will make you die completely "by death".
  • Why didn't they say apothaneisthe (ἀποθανεῖσθε) alone: "you will die away completely". Wouldn't that be good enough?
  • Why the extra emphasis on how: "by death" (θανάτῳ)?
  • Why "completely", what is the alternative, partial death?
• This comes up again later, when they find out exactly how they'll die (not by death!), which is a strong clue to the mystery rite
• mystery rite - death and resurrection catharsis rites; refers to psychotic ecstasy/mania symbolic death rites involving extreme states and near death; also appears to include "ego death" in addition, for those familiar with modern entheogen practices; but this death and resurrection rite is much more severe and unique vs today's soft entheogens. Aionian Fire 🔥

This is the place where Kurios becomes a liar.
Later, they "eat" from it, and they die without death (they do not physically die).

Why would Kurios lie?

• Because dying without death creates a new Theos (god)... and our Kurios may not want the competition

2:18 - it's not good to be alone, let's make a battle partner

• boēthon (βοηθὸν)
  • partner in battle, like a comrade soldier in war
  • κατ’ αὐτόν - according to him / corresponding to him - "corresponding" gives weight to equality here
  • an Eua Boethos is the battle partner who cries euai
    • later we'll see the person who is woman (gune) given the role of Zoe (animating life, vital force), and then later given the role/title of Eua (the cry of euai).

• Kurios Theos (κύριος ὁ θεός) - literally the lord of the realm, who's divine (e.g. with the divine mind), see Gods which is a title

Here, the grammar for "the human" (τὸν ἄνθρωπον) is sex-indeterminate / generic.

2:19 - more education from the earth dust, of earth beasts and sky birds, psychic animated force, were their name.

• eplasen (ἔπλασεν) - generally, mould, form by education (paedea), training
• the earth (τῆς γῆς) - using kollourion for molding of the psyche/soul (ψυχὴν ζῶσαν)
• psuche (ψυχή) - psyche/soul - pneuma/breath, animating principle, that which departs at death
• zousan (ζῶσαν) - living, being alive, animated life force, vital-force,
  • Heyschius defines Zoe as Psuche (ψυχή)

Beasts (earth), Birds (sky) - allusion to Gaia and Ouranos

• Here, some mythic stuff, giving names to everything, as if Adam's now starting from a blank slate.
• Cosmic Egg mechanics, with the splitting of sky and earth

Are we still in the (lemnian) earth molded Kollourion rite? Is Adam still being formed/guided? Yes: Eplasen (educated) further out of the Earth

2:20 - Adam calls names to Gaia creatures, Ouranos creatures, and Wild/Untamed/Venomous creatures, looking for a partner in battle

Again, we're calling out all the Gaia creatures and the Ouranos creatures, but this time also the dangerous creatures too (theriois).
Again, we're (still) looking for an equal battle partner in action.

• Cosmic Egg mechanics, with the splitting of sky and earth

Interesting:
2:18's corresponding (κατ’ αὐτόν) vs 2:20's comparable (ὅμοιος αὐτῷ)

• In 2:18 we see corresponding (κατ’ αὐτόν)
• In 2:20 we see comparable (ὅμοιος αὐτῷ)
• this is exactly where Greek precision matters, because the text is doing something deliberate by switching constructions. There is no redundancy here.
• They are not synonyms.
• They answer two different questions.
• 2:18's corresponding (κατ’ αὐτόν) - one whose capacity corresponds to the human’s. capable of operating on the same plane, fit for the same arena of action - equal.
• 2:20's comparable (ὅμοιος αὐτῷ) - like him, similar to him, of the same kind - suitable peer.

Terms:

• ἐκάλεσεν (ὀνόματα) - designation / identification language
• theriois (θηρίοις) - wild animals, untamed beasts (including those with venomous pharmakon, such as Theriac)
• boēthos (βοηθὸς)
  • partner in action/battle (not a servant), like one of your soldier comrades in war
  • ὅμοιος αὐτῷ - "corresponding" gives weight to equality here
  • an Eua Boethos is the battle partner who cries euai
    • later we'll see the person who is woman (gune) given the role of Zoe (animating life), and then later given the role/title of Eua (the cry of euai).

Looking for a boēthos (partner in battle), those animals certainly will not do.

Here, some mythic stuff, giving names to everything, as if Adam's now starting from a blank slate. Are we still in the (lemnian) earth molded Kollourion rite? Is Adam still being formed/guided?

2:21 - Theos forcefully applied ecstasy to Adam, and put him to sleep. Takes a side and replenish it.

Guided Initiatory Experience, after molding with Kollourion, Kurios guides Adam (somehow) to ecstasy and then sleep.

• epebalen (ἐπέβαλεν) — cast upon, imposed upon, laid over (deliberate, forceful application)
• ekstasin (ἔκστασιν) - displacement, standing-outside oneself, trance, altered state. ἔκστασις in Greek medical and ritual texts means altered consciousness, often induced. A pharmakon inference is not stated, but ἐπέβαλεν ἔκστασιν is exactly how an externally induced state is described.
• hupnousen (ὕπνωσεν) — put to sleep (not hypnotize, that's a modern definition)

Venom drugs cause near death experience, progression leads to passing out then coma, e.g. sleep.

• ecstasy then sleep, would imply passing out or coma
• remember there's an ophis (serpent/dragon temple guardian role) here later, so we can assume we're doing venom rites

• pleuroun (πλευρῶν) - side or flank (general, buildings, animals, landscapes, humans, etc)

Pleuroun is NOT specifically a rib (that's a later mistranslation / reframing)

• There is no language indicating specifically "rib", here.
• Pleuras means side.

Side could refer to many things:

• anatomical side of Adam, literal flesh and/or bone, arm or torso.
• person standing to Adam's side, the woman Eua (the one at your side). An analogy about arriving at a party and someone wants to “borrow my side” to have a chat with my date, is exactly the kind of euphemism ancient writers relied on.
• sexual front side of Adam. Greek texts routinely avoid naming genitals directly – “side,” “thigh,” “loins,” “parts” are standard evasions. See Mary Jesus Mountain for another abrahamic cult performing a similar rite ~350years later. And yes they also use the same pleuras "side" language as well.
• gendered side/half of Adam. Rather than a physical side, it could be his "female side". Was Adam sexless before, so that the "genderless male/female human" whole is now being split into two genders male/female? A androgenous / gynomorphic god analogy here perhaps? Or one gynomorphic person discovering his masculine and feminine components to his own personality? Babies born in the purple were said to have both sexes, and be given the title of "god"... Perhaps we're talking about initiation revelation helping that "god" role understand their inner parts better.

Another possibility:

• remember that right now Adam is in Ecstasy and Sleeping (coma or passed out possibly). all this side surgery business could easily be a metaphor (and not literal) for some unnamed undescribed behind-the-scenes stuff going on while Adam is sleeping in ecstasy, which ultimately leads to the woman being put through her own ordeal (her own ecstasy/sleep?) which leads to her being "constructed" as in paidea education of her soul/psyche to construct her inner kosmos order and structure.

So yes: πλευρά is a deliberate ambiguity container.

At This Point: If you notice, Adam's ecstasy and sleep was introduced and then kind of left there forgotten, and we're distracted easily by the bold claim of side-surgery which seems engineered to distract us from the ecstasy trance sleep happening.

• Level 1: Side surgery from a supernatural being, ignore the ecstacy, that's just weird meaningless blah blah...
• Level 2: Some kind of ecstatic rite is going on, and "side" language is metaphorical to what's happening within that act.

Question: Is there a mortal female, or are we talking about Adam's feminine side of his psyche (animating force)?

• flesh - as semen (body and blood)

repair language is exactly what you use after:

• surgical extraction
• ritual bleeding
• loss of bodily substance
• sexual depletion
• trance-induced mental depletion (if we're talking about an ecstasy/sleep state, there'll be a hangover)

Can σάρξ cover bodily substance without specifying it?
Yes — constantly.

2:22 - Kurios Theos educates a woman using Adam's side

Architectural language. Architecting her Kosmic order.

• the woman is not “born”
• she is structured
• ordered
• internally configured

This works extremely well with:

• education (paideia) of the psyche
• initiation
• installation of cosmological order
• formation of ritual role

• here the woman is being molded, formed, constructed (as with a temple), similar to Adam's molding earlier. Education of her psuche (soul/psyche)

Options:

• semen taken from Adam drugged with ecstasy - given to the women, contained some pharmakon which formed her kosmos. Example: Mary Jesus Mountain has same side language 350years later
• the person by Adam's side is simply given the role of woman

• remember he is sleeping from the ecstacy, and her ordeal probably leaves her in some similar state as well, so maybe they need some time to revive after the ordeal.

2:23 - Adam gives his communion, calls her woman, because she was educated from her man

• Did Adam just give her his communion? See later christian body and blood (hyma) language for tradition... Example: Mary Jesus Mountain ..... (todo: find more examples from Septuagint or Hellenic works?)

role/gender naming:

• role designation, acknowledgment of gender (female being one half of a whole).
• gune (γυνή) (female/woman) and andros (ἀνδρός) (male/man) - there is no "wo" modifier to man, don't even go there... lol
• gune (γυνή) can mean wife and andros (ἀνδρός) can mean husband, as well. Generally, counterparts to a whole union.

initiation:

• initiated a woman from Adam's ecstasy biological state, some pharmakon contact high transferred to the woman

Options:

• "eua was standing by his side" - she was standing right beside him, and that's where she came from (was obtained from / was taken from).
• "eua was initiated" - her enlightenment, or her role initiation
  • initiated her from Adam's ecstasy biological state, some pharmakon contact high transferred to the woman
  • points to the hypothesis that his front-side was used, semen, like Jesus gave Mary on the mountain apocryphal text.
• "adam realizes his masculine and feminine sides" - through the initiation/molding of his psyche, and then initiation/constructing of the feminine side, adam now realizes the virtue to both masculine and feminine thinking.

2:24 - this is why a person shall leave their parents, and be bound to their woman, and the two shall be one flesh

• to promote family, we definitely want you to go forth and multiply, get out of your parent's home!

• greek mindset is that male + female = a whole human, this is why many gods are androgynous, a "whole" human is more human (better) than a gendered human.
• this plays into mating as well, we are stronger (and more whole as humans) paired with the opposite sex.

2:25

3 - Genesis 3

3:1

3:2–3 (Eua responds)

3:4

• remember ophis (serpent) is synonym for a dragon, a temple guardian of relics and secrets

• you will die not by death.... a dying-away that is not biological death. this is clear marker for death and resurrection rites, or in modern parlance, ego-death (die without death, get it?). There's a famous saying, which is used for such mystery/initiatory experiences such as this - "die before you die so that you don't die when you die". It's a clever way to talk about dying during your life, to be reborn without fears (aligned/harmonized internal forces/parts/personas or daimones).

3:5

• sure sounds like initiation, enlightenment, catharsis, "the mystery"... here.

3:6

3:7

3:8–19 (Meeting with Kurios; consequences)

3:20 — The Role Naming

• In Greek, calling a name often identifies role or essence, not person identity but person role. Naming here explains what she is, not her new name.
• Her previous role-name up to this point was "gune (woman)", now she is the "animating force of life" or "Zoe (Ζωή)".

• the Eua Zoue (Ζωή) is the "cry of animating life", the boethos battle helper in the rite, who's responsible for resurrection, who's cry pulls the initiate away from near death into reanimation, completing the catharsis. And she can do this for all who live. Molding, forming, creating a better psyche for, all initiates who she resurrects. She mothers these new lives.

3:21–24 (Garments; expulsion; cheroubim with the turning sword)

Typical revelatory visionary "trip report" here:

• cheroubim (χερουβὶν) - are "messengers" (the greek word angelos means messenger) have hundreds of eyes and 6 sets of wings. This is a very common sight with mushroom or LSD, for example, since entheogens generally increases our pattern recognition (both erroneously, and virtuously), we get all kinds of extra signals for "that's an eye".
• strephoumenen (στρεφομένην) - twist and turn in about itself. STR root is often mystical. The twisting is typical of entheogenic experience (think - e.g. impossible multidimensional hypercube animations, etc)

4 - Genesis 4

4:1-7 - Cain and Abel

4:1

todo: continue...

Adam and Eve's names analysis

• see Adam and Eve are Greek Names

Analysis from Dr Hillman

What follows is a list where Dr Hillman analyzes the Genesis story:

• see Ancient Hebrew and its forgery - Faked Language and False History