K Seles
Jul 13, 2021

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I have a serious question which as far as I know has never been seriously answered: Why are nude figures of Adam and Eve portrayed with navels? Surely, artists were well aware of the purpose of the human navel, surely, they must also have been aware that neither Adam nor Eve, as the original humans created by God alone, would have had need of their navels. So, what was the point of depicting these nascent navels? Seriously!

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K Seles
K Seles

Written by K Seles

Architect by vocation. Individualist by inclination. Political sociologist, anthropologist, rationalist, philosophist, and cosmologist by avocation.

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