Adam

* In Vol. 2
* In Vol. 4

> She is flesh from my flesh and bone from my bones, because she was taken from man.
>
> Adam, Genesis 2:23

**Adam** is, according to the three Abrahamic monotheistic religions: Islam, Christianity and Judaism, the first man created by God.

## Biography

### Creation

God created Adam on the 6th day of the creation of the world using soil dust and placed him in the garden of Eden, where there Adam could take care of the garden. Shortly after, after he was made to sleep by God, the first woman, Eve, was created from his rib.

### Eating the forbidden fruit

The Serpent (in some stories he is depicted as Lucifer / Satan disguised) tempts Eve to eat the fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, whose fruit was forbidden by God. Eve eats the forbidden fruit and makes Adam also eat the forbidden fruit. From that point on, humans understood what Good and Evil really was.

### Expulsion from Eden

For this reason, God punished Adam and Eve for not obeying Him. Thus, the two of them were condemned to live painful existences and were deprived of the privileges they had before eating the forbidden fruit (such as immortality).

### The offsprings of Adam

After being expelled from Eden, he procreated two sons together with Eve: Cain and Abel. Years later, Cain killed Abel out of jealousy. Then, at the age of 130, he procreated a third son begotten as Abel's replacement: Seth. In the Book of Jubilees it is said that he had two daughters: Aclima (wife of Cain) and Azura (wife of Seth). Adam continued to have other children (tradition says he had between 14 and 140).

### Death

Adam died at the age of 930. God himself took care of the burial of Adam's body when he died, defining him, albeit a participant in original sin, "a pious and holy man".

## Description

### In Christian Iconography

Adam is never described in the Bible, but there are various depictions of him that represents him as follow: a relatively tall and athletic man in his 20s with a white skin, black eyes, short straight or slightly curly hair that varies from dark to light brown and ,sometimes, a thick and unkempt beard.

### In the Mandela Catalogue

#### In the Beginners' Bible/Vol. 2

In the brief appearance that Adam does in The Mandela Catalogue Vol. 2 and in the sample-episode of the Beginners' Bible, Adam is depicted as a short man in his late teens with a white skin, and skinny body, slightly curly brown hair, black eyes, thin and curved eyebrows, round face, French nose and a normally-sized circular ears.

#### In Vol. 4

Adam appears as a young man with olive skin and short wavy dark brown hair and black eyes. He is relatively tall and has a fit physique.

## In the Mandela Catalogue

### Role in the series

Adam appears in the Mandela Catalogue vol. 4 in a cartoon at the start of the volume. He is created on the 6th day of the Creation by the dust of the ground with Eve being created shortly after. The two fell immediately in love and felt happiness for the first time. Then, they go to take a nap, but Adam gets awaken by a voice calling him "son" and walks alone through the forest at night. He goes to a tree nearby and sees a robed figure standing behind the tree and in the thick fog an apple lying on the grass is revealed. Afterwards, Adam returns to Eve by standing over her and creepily looking at her, blocking her view of the night sky and scaring her. It is theorized that Adam was replaced by an Alternate.

### Other references in the series

Adam briefly appears in the Mandela Catalogue Vol. 2 in which he is shown him eating the forbidden fruit after Eve gave it to him.
Still in the Mandela Catalogue Vol. 2, the main protagonist of the volume, Adam Murray, is a reference of the original biblical figure:

* Both of them share the discovery of forbidden knowledge (Adam understanding what is Good and Evil by eating the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil and Adam Murray by taking and surviving M.A.D.).
* Both of them have relationships with a woman named Eve (Adam Murray was the ex-boyfriend of Evelin Miller and Adam is partner and husband of Eve).

## Trivia

* According to the Bereshit Rabbah, Adam had a tail which he then lost.
* Before the original sin, Adam and Eve had on their bodies a celestial nacreous substance and metaphorically similar to the matter of the nail that acted as aura.
* Initially, Adam and Eve constituted a single being and then God separated them making them as 2 different beings.
* It is thought that Adam was extremely tall that he could touch the sky and could see from one part of the world to the other.
* According to the Hebrew exegesis, Adam had seen in a vision all the souls of successive generations, the sages and kings of the Jewish people.
* According to Kabbalah, Adam enclosed the souls of all human beings, but these souls ascended in the Sky and detached from him for the sin he later committed.
* One of the epithets of Jesus is "last Adam".
* Adam lived 930 years instead of 1000, because he gave 70 years of his life David. In fact, David should have died 3 hours after he was born, but 70 years were granted to him by Adam himself.