Week 2 Storytelling: Adam and Eve

You all know the classic story of Adam and Eve, right? The one where God creates man out of his own image and places him perfectly into the Garden of Eden. He then gives this so called perfect man, Adam, a distinct set of rules to follow and creates a woman from the man himself. Her name is Eve.

Side note... It still baffles me that man wasn't created from a woman. The things I would do to see a man go through childbirth these days. 

Anyways, back to the story. God says, "Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil..." First off, why would you tempt someone with food when they are hungry? Adam and Eve were just created. Their stomaches were probably rumbling. Second off, God said this tree had knowledge. Again, Adam and Eve were just created, how could they have known what God was really saying. Eve is tempted by the tree of knowledge and indulges into its goodness and even gives it to Adam. God sets new rules as sin enters into the world.

You probably think you know the rest of the story, right? Wrong. Here's what really happened... 

The apple? Not entirely an apple. You see, the "tree" of knowledge in the Garden of Eden was actually a giant mushroom. Eve was vegetarian and the Garden of Eden was everything that she had dreamed of. God warned them that something would happen if they ate the mushroom, but they proceeded to without hesitation. 

Satan was the one who provoked Eve to eat the mushroom. His intentions weren't bad, he just wanted them to relax and mellow them out. Essentially, Satan was a drug dealer. 

Without hesitation Eve devoured the mushroom. She exclaimed, "Adam try this! I've never had anything like this." 

Adam tried it like any good male companion would. He followed love over his creator. It wasn't the best thing they'd ever tasted, but boy did they begin to feel it soon after.

Adam and Eve went about their day, until all the sudden something hit them. Their minds and souls began bouncing around in a world of something they had never experienced. Everything felt completely different and they thought they were having an out of body experience. 

The first of it was bad. Very bad. 

They wandered out of the Garden, betraying what God had commanded. They went into a place of darkness and paranoia. Their bodies were numb to movement as they let their mind wander to the evil. Beginning to feel nauseous, Adam stated, "God what have we done? I ate from the mushroom and feel the wrath of the Earth." 

God wasn't very sympathetic. For he had known what they had done and was going to let them figure it out on their own. 

After wandering through darkness for a little bit, Adam and Eve finally reached a euphoric feeling. They were giddy and restless. 

(Adam and Eve euphoria, Web Source) 

Adam exclaimed in the midst of everything going on, "As God did not plague us with darkness, behold, He has caused this sun to rise and to plague us with burning heat."

Adam and Eve were wandering around the Earth and took into account all of the good and bad things they saw. Without a worry, they wandered back to find God to tell him their feelings of happiness.

Their eyes were open. They were in search of more of this magical feeling forever. When they told God their news, he was not thrilled...

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Bibliography: Adam and Eve, link to unit section 

Author's Note: In the original story, Adam and Eve eat from an apple tree and God punishes them. The stories from this section also included things I did not know about the original story of Adam and Eve. One thing the story included, but I did not add in my story was about another woman named Lilith. She was a companion given to Adam, but refused to accept. In my story, I decided to make a twist on a lot of things. I added a mushroom in the Garden of Eden as opposed to an apple. This mushroom took Adam and Eve on another journey of what it is like to be "high". They just wandered around and explored their new world.