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| "Adam and Eve" By Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1533 |
How come most classic paintings of Adam and Eve show them
with belly buttons?
Adam was created by God and was the first human on Earth. So
why does he have a navel? That human feature only occurs in mammals that are
connected to their mothers in utero
by an umbilical cord that supplies nutrients to the unborn baby.
Since Adam didn't have a mother, how could he have had an umbilicus (i.e., navel, belly button, piko
[Hawaiian], oheso [Japanese])?
And since Eve was created from Adam's rib and also wasn't born of a mother, how
come SHE is shown with a navel?
Maybe the artists thought the Creator was thinking ahead and
gave each of them one so they'd have a handy place to put their salt while they munched on their celery sticks.
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