Magician's Assistant - Friends & Lovers Part 9

"This one employs sort of a Chinese menu approach, in that it takes a pinch from Version One, and a smidgen from Version Two, and comes up with yet a Third Version altogether. In this Third Version of which I speak, we have God creating a human being that is neither male nor female, but an amalgamation of the two. Now, don't the two of you go thinking that I'm suggesting that the first human being was a hermaphrodite, because I'm not. However, though you guys might accuse me of hedging my bets, I must also point out that I'm not completely ruling out the remote, and albeit farfetched possibility that this individual wasn't a hermaphrodite either, because he, she and or it might just have been.

"Basically, I guess what I'm saying is that all my research to this date has lead me to come to the conclusion that this amalgamated human being, who I have somewhat sarcastically come to refer to in my own mind as, Adameve, was probably asexual. And, I say that because there is nothing in this Third Rendition that has God directing this amalgamated individual of His to 'be fruitful and multiply'.

"Now, here's something the two of you might find interesting. At least I did. You see, like the First Version, the Third Version also uses a simplistic, six step creation scenario, that has God kicking back and resting on His laurels on the seventh step. However, unlike what I take to be the rather hard to swallow six-day time frame scenario that has created such a hullabaloo, both of the arcane texts which I had the opportunity to examine talked about six unspecified generations as the timeframe in which this all but unheard of Third Version of Creation takes place.

"Oddly enough, the sequence of events which are recounted in this Third Version are more in line with those that are set out in the Second Version, rather than those set out in the First Version. Hey! That's why I jokingly refer to the Third Version as the Chinese Menu Version, you know, as in they took one from Column A and two from Column B. Okay! So anyhow, in Version Three, after God places Adameve in the Garden of Ethan - And, that's Ethan, not the Eden that you've come to know and love! - Mr. Serpent with the silver tongue comes slithering by and the rest, as they say, is History. Or, I guess that should really be Prehistory. Or, better yet, Biblical History.