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Mašyā may thus also appear as maṣ̌iiā or maš́iiā or mašiiāi (and variants). Originally and etymologically, Mašyā means "mortal being" as Old Persian martya, Persian mard and even Sanskrit martya also mean "mortal" and therefore "man". The root in Avesta and Sanskrit for death is mar, mr, "to die". The causative mâr means "to kill".
Adam. Adam[ c] is the name given in Genesis 1–5 to the first human. [ 4] Adam is the first human-being aware of God, and features as such in various belief systems (including Judaism, Christianity, Gnosticism and Islam ). [ 5] According to Christianity, Adam sinned in the Garden of Eden by eating from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
Euodia ( Greek Εὐοδία, meaning unclear, but possibly "sweet fragrance" [ 1][ 2] or "prosperous journey" [ 3]) and Syntyche ( Συντύχη, "fortunate," literally "with fate") are people mentioned in the New Testament. They were female members of the church in Philippi, and according to the text of Philippians 4: 2–3, they were ...
God in Christianity is represented by the Trinity of three hypostases or "persons" described as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. While "Father" and "Son" implicitly invoke masculine sex, the gender of the Holy Spirit from earliest times was also represented as including feminine aspects (partly due to grammatical gender, especially in the Syriac ...
A 15th or 16th century Kabbalah text states that God has "cooled" the female Leviathan, meaning that he has made Lilith infertile and she is a mere fornication. [citation needed] The Fall of Man by Cornelis van Haarlem (1592), showing the serpent in the Garden of Eden as a woman
According to the origin story [1] of the Abrahamic religions, she was the first woman. Eve is known also as Adam 's wife. According to the second chapter of Genesis, Eve was created by God ( Yahweh ) by taking her from the rib [ 2 ] of Adam, to be Adam's companion.
The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία, tà biblía, 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures, some, all, or a variant of which are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, Islam, the Baha'i Faith, and other Abrahamic religions. The Bible is an anthology (a compilation of texts of a variety of forms ...
The scripture of Sikhism is the Sri Gurū Granth Sahib (SGGS). Printed as a heading for the Guru Granth, and for each of its major divisions, is the Mul Mantra, a short summary description of God, in Punjabi. Sikh tradition has it that this was originally composed by Guru Nanak (1469–1539), the founder of Sikhism.