🔵 By Thomas Riffenburg. Photo by lauragrafie.
Odin took a trip,
to a beautiful place he’d heard,
the Garden of Eden,
somewhere on the Earth.
Changing for the trip,
as allfather’s disguise,
he took the guise of a snake,
for he is cunning as he is wise.
He came upon a man and woman,
discussing with heat,
over a piece of fruit,
from some forbidden tree.
“Is it true” he asked,
“you’re forbidden to eat,
this particular fruit,
which to me seems the most sweet?”
“Yes” said the woman,
“of all the trees we may partake,
but not of this one,
for that would be he gravest mistake.”
“I don’t understand” said Odin,
“please explain to me why”,
“for on the day that we eat it” said Eve,
“God Jehova said we shall die!”
“I know the names of all the Gods,
and Jehova isn’t one,
if you wish to be wise”, said Odin,
“then eat of one.”
“You shall be as the Gods,
on the day that you do,
knowing good and evil,
this allfather Odin promises you.”
So Adam and Eve ate,
and their eyes were open,
the false God Jehova,
came to see what was the commotion.
The false one was wroth that they took to themselves knowledge,
he wanted mindless servants,
not wise ones,
tricked by a serpent.
Banished from his garden,
the false one said to them,
allfather Odin had given them wisdom,
so they would follow him.
Ash and Embla is what Odin named them,
he taught them all said they were never to be thralls,
they were brothers and sisters, kin of the Gods,
and one day it would be an honor to welcome them
to Valhall’s halls.