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The Garden of Eden Story
The first creation narrative of the seven days begins with too much water, a hat's about bringing land out. The eden narrative picks up that waste land idea and turns it into a whole narrative where the land doesn't have enough water. So we have no plants, no water and no humans. What god proceeds to do is first bring up water out of the ground, like alittle spring that gives you mud. And then awa lhim is able to form adam from the adama, human from the dust of the ground. That's right. Word play. But even though you have a dam from the atama, you've just got a pile of mud, or like a statue