WillyTex
2019-10-16 17:27:41 UTC
We do not know exactly what plant, of all the plants available to them, that Adam and Eve ate of, while in the Biblical Garden of Eden (Genesis 3:6). It has been suggested that it was a fruit that Eve partook of, perhaps an apple. YMMV.
However, if it was a tree, it may have been a fig tree, similar to the Bodhi Tree of Indian Buddhist legend - the sacred Ficus religious.
The sacred tree in Micronesian mythology is the banana tree, whose origin is related to the idea of Manna and the myth of the Tree of Plenty. Go figure.
'Food of the Gods : The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge'
A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution
by Terence McKenna
Bantam, 1993
Harris, Stephen J. "Understanding the Bible." Mountain View: Mayfield, 2000
The Jerusalem Bible. New York: Doubleday, 1966
However, if it was a tree, it may have been a fig tree, similar to the Bodhi Tree of Indian Buddhist legend - the sacred Ficus religious.
The sacred tree in Micronesian mythology is the banana tree, whose origin is related to the idea of Manna and the myth of the Tree of Plenty. Go figure.
'Food of the Gods : The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge'
A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution
by Terence McKenna
Bantam, 1993
Harris, Stephen J. "Understanding the Bible." Mountain View: Mayfield, 2000
The Jerusalem Bible. New York: Doubleday, 1966