Desert of Genesis: The Scenes Before and After Creation

Hossein Sheikhzadeh

Department of Humanities, Saravan Branch, Islamic Azad University (IAU), Saravan, Sistan and Balochistan, Iran.

DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.13005/bbra/1603

ABSTRACT: Beginnings, roots and origins have always attracted human's mind. The more we go back the more baffling they are. Accordingly, 'Genesis', 'Big Bang Theory', 'The Theory of Evolution' and a belief in the creation story of 'Adam and Eve' are actually our buried origins. This paper, quoting from some religious texts like the Bible, the Quran and the likes, discusses how the scenes before Creation and after it were similar to a desert and nothingness. Such a desert can also be a symbol of Adam's Fall on earth and his creation out of dust. In the deserts, it is said then, we are closer to God and some hidden signs of a paradise. Consequently a memory of a loss and the Garden of Eden evokes every traveller who enters this harsh yet rich landscape.

KEYWORDS: Beginning; Genesis; Eden; Desert; Dust; Fall

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