Two Adams and Eden

TWO ADAMS AND EDEN
PROF. M. M. NINAN
The Early Semitic pictograph for this letter is a picture of waves of water. This pictograph has the
meanings of liquid, water and sea, mighty and massive from the size of the sea and chaos from the
storms of the sea. The Modern Hebrew name for this letter is mem probably from the word mayim
meaning "water." The word mayim is the plural form of mah, probably the original name for this
letter, meaning "what." To the Hebrews the sea was a feared and unknown place, for this reason
this letter is used as a question word, "who, what, when, where, why and how", in the sense of
searching for an unknown. The Greek name for this letter is mu, which is a Hebrew word closely
related in roots and meaning to the Hebrew word mah. The sound for this letter is "m," as it is in all
other languages.
It also represents a womb from which life emerge. Hence we have Ma to mean mother.
Look at the pictogram of the ancient Hebrew word Adam it gives you the meaning "Powerful God
enters into the waters"
Thus we sea in the second verse of Genesis 1:2 "and the Spirit of God was moving over the
surface of the waters."
"It is the spirit that give life."
It is this that generated life on earth and heaven. Evidently the waters was associated with mother
and the it always referred to the waters of the womb.
Rabbis associated the letter mem with the womb
(Sefer Yetzira 3:4, Bahir 85, Etz Chaim, Shaar Hayereach 3, p. 176).
A closed mem is a closed womb; an open mem is the womb opening to give birth (Bahir 84).
Thus in the modern hebrew the sign for m developed into the sign of the womb. Again the letter ma
has two forms - one corresponding to the open womb and the other to closed womb. Open womb
sign occurs at the beginning and middle of a word and a closed womb sign at the end of a word.
This is clearly seen in the name of Mirium (Mary) as shown below.
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