From: Jasper
Date: 1/13/01
Time: 2:02:20 PM
Jean,
Jean,
Right on,
The story of Adam and Eve and their descendants sound like metaphors or allegories. The context in which the word "day" is used in Ancient Hebrew is the way we use the word "minute." One of our "minutes" could be fifteen seconds or fifteen minutes. Nowadays we often say "wait a second" when we could mean a minute or fifteen minutes. All it really means is a period of time when a particular activity is taking place (while you're looking for something, or trying to do something). A day in Genesis could have represented a few days or a few million years. A character could be a group of people and a short fight could be a long war.
In Greek Mythology, Native American mythology, and African Mythology you will find Adam and Eve" stories, Great Flood stories, etc. Some themes are repeated so often in time and in so many far-flung cultures that Carl Jung invented a name for them. He called them "archetypes" and he reasoned that they had to exist on a level of consciousness shared by all of us from the creation of the human race.
Mark Fuhrman studied psychology intently when he was trying to get his section 8 (psychiatric discharge) from the LAPD. He thought he knew enough to fool the shrinks. You can't get that far into the study of psychology without learning about archetypes. Guess where else you will find them? Right…in the movies. --Jasper