the temptations for a while, he at last ate of the
fruit, and consequently _fell_.[15:2]

A legend of the Creation, similar to the Hebrew, was found by Mr. Ellis
among the _Tahitians_, and appeared in his "Polynesian Researches." It
is as follows:

After Taarao had formed the world, he created man out of araea, red
earth, which was also the food of man until bread was made. Taarao one
day called for the man by name. When he came, he caused him to fall
asleep, and while he slept, he took out one of his _ivi_, or bones, and
with it made a woman, whom he gave to the man as his wife, and they
became the progenitors of mankind. The woman's name was _Ivi_, which
signifies a bone.[15:3]

The prose Edda, of the ancient _Scandinavians_, speaks of the "Golden
Age" when all was pure and harmonious. This age lasted until the arrival
of _woman_ out of Jotunheim--the region of the giants, a sort of "land
of Nod"--who corrupted it.[15:4]

In the annals of the _Mexicans_, the first woman, whose name was
translated by the old Spanish writers, "the woman of our flesh," is
always represented as accompanied by a great male serpent, who seems to
be talking to her. Some writers believe this to be the _tempter_
speaking to the primeval mother, and others that it is intended to
represent the _father_ of the human race. This Mexican Eve is
represented on their monuments as the mother of twins.[15:5]

Mr. Franklin, in his "Buddhists and Jeynes," says:

"A striking instance is recorded by the very intelligent
traveler (Wilson), regarding a representation of the Fall of
our first parents, sculptured in the magnificent temple of
Ipsambul, in Nubia. He says that a very exact representation
of Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden is to be seen in that
cave, and that the _serpent_ climbing round the tree is
especially delineated, and the whole subject of the tempting
of our first parents most accurately exhibited."[16:1]

Nearly the same thing was found by Colonel Coombs in the _South of
India_. Colonel Tod, in his "Hist. Rajapoutana," says:

"A drawing, brought by Colonel Coombs from a sculptured column
in a cave-temple in the South of India, represents the first
pair at the foot of the ambrosial tree, and a _serpent_
entwined among the heavily-laden boughs, presenting to them
some of the fruit from his mouth. The tempter appears to be at
that part of his discourse, when