ADAM AND HEWAN
Every culture in the world holds their own creation story. Where we came from, where we are going, and what defines good and evil. In Ethiopia, instead of Adam and Eve, it's Adam and Hewan. Yatreda reimagined the Genesis narrative, envisioning Africa as the birthplace of humanity.
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THE END OF INNOCENCE
Adam and Hewan, the ancestor of all.
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THE BIRTH OF ADAM
At the beginning of time, Egziabher formed the first man out of the dust, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. The man became a living soul.
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THE FIRST MAN
Egziabher formed a paradise, the Garden of Eden, and put Adam there to take care of it.
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ADAM NAMES THE ANIMALS
Egziabher had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.
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THE FIRST WOMAN
There was no companion for the man. So, Egziabher made the first woman from Adam’s rib.
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ADAM’S RIB
Adam said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.” That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.
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THE GARDEN OF EDEN
Egziabher said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
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THE TREE OF LIFE
The first man and woman lived pure lives and were free within paradise. Egziabher commanded just one rule: They may eat from any tree, except the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.
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THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL
The Serpent was more clever than any beast Egziabher had made. He tricked the woman, and both Adam and Hewan ate the forbidden fruit.
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THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT
Their eyes were opened. For the first time, they felt shame, and knew that they were naked, and hid themselves to the eyes of their Creator.
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KIRUBEL
The angel Kirubel was placed at the gate with a flaming sword, to guard the way back to the Tree of Life.
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BANISHED FROM PARADISE
For their sin, Egziabher cursed the serpent, and the man, and the woman. He multiplied their suffering, and reduced their immortality to a human lifetime. Adam and Hewan were banished from the Garden of Eden to work the dust from which Adam had been formed.
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IN THE IMAGE OF EGZIABHER
Egziabher made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them. And Egziabher said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”
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CREATING ADAM AND HEWAN
The Horn of Africa shares the world's most famous origin story, the genesis of humanity.