Eastward of Eden (eBook)

INTRODUCTION: A SAFARI INTO GENESISGenesis 2:19 After Adam, an adult, was created, God offered him the option to name animals. Lets join him. Well wear our jungle fatigues and tracking boots. Well include a large quick-lens camera. Zoom lens binoculars and a knapsack containing some rations, dangles from our neck. We have heard from doubting Thomases who would discourage us from examining the New World emanating from Genesis. Our binoculars now zoom in on early creation wherein fresh, intelligent design emerges from a jungle clearing. We suspect an Intelligent Designer to be admiring His creation in this enchanting Pangea. Just now a large, muscular figure, flaring with the suns brightness, appears in the clearing behind a swathe of richly endowed fruit- bearing trees and flowers of glorious color.We are still blinking from the powerful sunlight on that figure. The DESIGNER on a hillside bluff, bright as the noonday sun, listens with fatherly enjoyment. (were enjoying clairvoyance in this enchanting place.) We record Adams voice as he exclaims over a male giraffe, GOREF. We hear him Ill, call you Scruff. Aramaic- Hebrew found in the writings from which the 1611 King James Bible was taken. Well hear the consonants in English as giraffe. At least a dozen concurrent nations use a similar word today. To be listed later.Now Several Middle Eastern and other nations will mime the sound. Turkic: purpuruk; Assyrian: pirrpirraa; Persian:parvane; Hindi, parvana and Arabic p to f (a lingual bilabial switch to be explained later) as farasha. Now he singles out a butterfly that flutters near his face. Ill call you parpar meaning to flutter. We remember words like the French parlay of the fluttering tongue and the English word Parliament for fluttering tongues. English words like parrot and parakeet for fluttering tongue birds quickly come to mind. We trip the shutter to capture the flight of the delicate creature which is now wandering over our heads. Later well find other Aramaic biblical Hebrew animal names, which the King James Bible or Strongs Bible Concordance may contain. Im removing this too warm jacket and rolling up the heavy camouflage pants. Happy creation hunting!