Garden of Eden

The **Garden of Eden** was a mystical oasis, built by Metatron, and the home of Adam and Lilith, and later Eve, the first humans to become aware of the world around them.

## History

### Creation

After God delivered the souls to the Eridals (the first race of humans), He ordered Metatron and his sentinels to protect and guide them. As time passed, hominids began to gain consciousness about the Universe and about themselves. They would stop being aggressive animals guided by instincts and become more refined and intelligent.

One of the first humans to become aware of this was Adam, and soon after his wife Lilith. To preserve them from the dangers of the world, the First Angel built, between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, an oasis of magnificent estates, with many fruit trees and graceful animals. Afterwards, he abducted the two and placed them in the garden, erasing their memories of their lives in their tribes. Adam and Lilith began to live isolated from other humans, as Metatron believed that humanity was intrinsically good, but that coexistence in large groups caused discord and conflicts. Because of this, in addition to isolating them, he made the soil of the garden infertile, preventing them from having children and creating a society in that sanctuary. In addition, the waters of the rivers that flowed in the garden left those who drank them completely immortal.

### Lilith's banishment

For a certain period of time, Adam and Lilith lived together in the garden, believing that Metatron was the creator of the Universe and its progenitor, calling him Lord and Father. However, the couple began to have several arguments, as the man did not want the woman to be on top of him during the sexual act. As the First Angel did not want the peace in that sanctuary to be disturbed, he sided with Adam and decided to drive the First Woman out of the garden. In order not to leave the First Man alone, he abducted another woman, named Eve, from one of the nearby tribes and placed her in Eden, erasing their memory and saying that they are a couple.

### The Serpent of Eden

For a long time, Adam and Eve lived in the garden just as it was with Lilith, with Adam hunting the animals and Eve gathering roots and fruit. During this time, Metatron again presented himself as Lord and Father and created trials for the couple to test their principles and morals, as well as allowing any angel to enter his domains. The First Angel knew that societies outside the garden grew and developed, but due to the wars and conflicts between the different human civilizations, he decided to preserve the couple as much as he could until the other Sentinels fulfilled their functions and brought peace to the planet.

Due to the interferences of the First Angels in the affairs of the Seven Heavens, Lucifer decided to hit his rival in his weak spot: the couple in Eden. To sow discord between them and Metatron, the Morning Star sent his most trusted seraph, Samael, into the garden. On the first trip, Samael tried to question the First Angel's motive for focusing on Adam and Eve rather than trying to appease other human conflicts and put the Sentinels in line, but the Garden God was smart enough to know the seraph's true intentions. , so he cast him out of Eden, and decided to close the garden, forbidding any angel besides him to cross its gates.

However, this did not stop Samael from continuing with his master's mission. On his second visit, he transmuted into a serpent, an ability given to him by the Dark Archangel, and crawled around for two days until he found a sturdy apple tree. When Eve passed through the trees, the Serpent called her and offered her a fruit, telling her many concepts she didn't know, such as true love, and instigating doubts for her and her husband to question why they were trapped and couldn't have children.

### Leaving the Garden

After Eva returned to her husband and told him what Samael had told her, the couple decided to question Metatron. Knowing the damage was done, the First Angel allowed them to leave the garden and see the world outside, but not before giving them one last piece of advice: "Praise only the human race and trust no winged being." Freed from the garden lands, Adam and Eve were finally able to have children, so they settled in the Near East region and had their firstborn, Cain. The Great Father, as Adam became known, unified the desert tribes and his son founded Enoch, the Beautiful Giant, the capital of the nation of Nod and the homeland of men.

It is unknown exactly what happened to the Garden of Eden after the couple left it, but as Metatron abandoned it to have a family with humans in the Southeast Asia region, it can be said that it was abandoned until it was destroyed by the Flood. in 11,500 BC.

## Territory

The garden was built by Metatron at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, south of Mesopotamia, in a region of fertile and irrigated land known as the Fertile Crescent. In antediluvian times, the garden was said to have grown west of a region called Nod, where Adam's lineage would rule for thousands of years.

## Topography

The Garden of Eden was described as a paradise on earth, a mystical oasis in the midst of a scorching desert, with ancient wonders found nowhere else. It was bounded by seven golden gates and contained four pure, crystalline rivers and lakes, whose waters made anyone who drank it immortal. The garden was not a uniform place, as it had many caves, corners and waterfalls.

### Flora

The garden's fields contained robust fruit trees, in lush green groves, as well as flowers of ancient beauty and roots that fed their inhabitants.

To the east of the garden grew Isidrath, the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. In Nod, she served as the symbol of the state religion, which worshiped the human race and Adam. In the year 35,000 BC, the archmage Kothar-wa-Khasis used its saplings to grow macabre apple trees, with a little necromancy, to use their fruits to produce a sedative gas potent enough to knock out angels.

### Fauna

Metatron inserted numerous species of animals into the garden for the couple to use as food, such as gazelles, birds and fish. However, he did not allow predators into Eden, as in the case of serpents.

## Inhabitants

* Adam (formerly; choose to leave)
* Lilith (formerly; kicked out by Metatron)
* Eve (formerly; choose to leave)

## Trivia

* Despite the existence of the Garden of Eden and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, the Forbidden Fruit probably does not exist in Spohrverse, or is just not mentioned.
	+ Some interpretations lead to say that the Forbidden Fruit would be "the truth" that Samael told Eve, about Metatron and the other humans.