[lit-ideas] Adam Gains Belly-Button by Losing Rib
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 01:08:21 EDT
The most convincing account I read from
_http://www.landoverbaptist.org/sermons/navel.html_
(http://www.landoverbaptist.org/sermons/navel.html)
"When God saw that Adam was alone,
he decided to create a help-mate. He
did this by taking Adam's rib and moving
it in such a way to loose it from [Adam's]
stomach. The protruding rib was pulled
from the blank stomach, being forced out.
The outward thrust created a puncture hole,
and thus became, for Adam, the first
belly-button."
Some OED definitions:
navel: "A rounded depression with a more or less raised knotty centre in the
middle of a person's abdomen, produced following the detachment of the
umbilical cord at birth; a (usually inconspicuous) scar marking the equivalent
point in other mammals; the umbilicus. Formerly also: the umbilical cord
(obs.)."
I guess the definition is broad enough to accept that when God forced the
rib out of Adam's stomach, he possibly by 'closing up' the flesh -- MUST have
created a sort of a navel.
I'm less sure about 'belly button'. (OED: "colloq., the navel (Bartlett,
1877)")
1934 KIPLING in Strand Mag. Apr. 350/1 Why waste time fighting atomies who
do not come up to your *belly-button?
1946 J B PRIESTLEY Bright Day iii. 66 If you'd ever gone to school with
your belly-button knockin' against your backbone.
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