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Adam May Equate to Egyptian god, Atum

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The God-Man Adam

[Taken from: http://www.domainofman.com/book/chap-1.html]

In the mythology of ancient Egypt, the god who arrived first on the Earth was called Atum, signifying “Totality.” Atum, as with Biblical Adam, was naked and required a civilizing influence. “The loincloth given to Atum served less to clothe him, in the strict sense of the word, than to permit him to manifest his royalty by means of a specific garment.”^a One cannot help but compare the royal undergarment of Atum with the fig leaf loincloth made for Biblical Adam. In the Egyptian creation story, the first goddess, Tefnut, was said to come forth out of Atum. One of her Mesopotamian nicknames was Nin-ti, meaning “Lady Life,” or “The Lady (Who Makes) Live.” S.N. Kramer states that ti is also the Sumerian word for “rib,” therefore Nin-ti could variously be interpreted as “the Lady of the Rib.”^b In the Bible, Eve is of course formed from the rib of Adam.

The Hebrew name Adam means “a man, ruddy.” Genesis 2:23 (KJV)^c states: “she [Eve] was taken out of man.” However, the Hebrew word translated in this particular verse as “man” is not Adam but iysh (376).^d Like the Egyptian name Atum, this word iysh also conveys a sense of both unity and totality. It is commonly translated elsewhere in the Bible as “every, everyone,” i.e., all men. There is an obvious phonic similarity between Adam and Atum. A true linguistic link is also not so unreasonable given that the names of all of the other major Egyptian deities have definite Semitic etymologies.^1
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