Adam (first man)

Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail)

• attestation: Adam is mentioned in the narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 378 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 378)

  "m the company of the Creator, see to it that you always keep in remembrance how Adam, the first man, was deceived because he consented to the devil's"

• attestation: Adam participates in narrative events at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 378 (sentence 1) (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 378)

  "in the bed where you fell into a swoon;"

• attestation: A death event (crucif) involving Adam is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 378 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 378)

  "at that hour the voice said: 'Here begin the terrors.' That is to say that after this word, the true crucifix would show to those whom it pleased such things as would surpass all the things that had come before in the way of fearsome marvels, and if you, in good faith and with steadfast heart, are willing to hold firm against all the things you will see, you will have gained so much that no marvel you see will appear to you for your harm, but rather to make you hate the devil more and keep him at a distance, and to make you more firmly fixed and rooted in the holy faith."

• attribution: Adam is described with negative attributes at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 378 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 378)

  "And if it should happen that any man or any woman seeks to deceive you, whether by promises or by gifts, to separate you from the company of the Creator, see to it that you always keep in remembrance how Adam, the first man, was deceived because he consented to the devil's urging through the counsel of the woman."

• attestation: Adam participates in narrative events at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 378 (sentence 4) (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 378)

  ""Of this thing be always mindful, for by this you will be able to recognize which counsels are given to you for salvation and which for peril;"

• attestation: A conversion or baptism involving Adam is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 378 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 378)

  "and because you hold yourself entirely to the will of your lord, for this reason you must believe no counsel that is against his will."

• attribution: Adam is described with positive attributes at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 378 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 378)

  "And if someone promises you great gifts and great riches to do something that is against his pleasure, be so wise as to understand that earthly gifts"

• attestation: Adam is mentioned in the narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 484 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 484)

  "And as soon as she had brought it to her husband Adam, and she had counseled and urged him to eat, Adam took it in such a manner that he plucked it fr"

• attribution: Adam is described with negative attributes at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 484 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 484)

  "which he himself had been cast out and driven away and hurled down from the glory of heaven — that was covetousness — he led her disloyal desire to the point where he made her pick the mortal fruit from the tree, which had been forbidden to her by the mouth of her Creator."

• attestation: Adam participates in narrative events at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 484 (sentence 2) (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 484)

  "And when she had picked it, the true story says that she picked and plucked from that very tree a small branch along with the fruit, as it often happens that little branches come away with some fruit when one picks it."

• relationship: A kinship relationship (husband) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 484 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 484)

  "And as soon as she had brought it to her husband Adam, and she had counseled and urged him to eat, Adam took it in such a manner that he plucked it from the branch and ate it, to our great suffering and to the joy and to his great destruction and to ours."

• relationship: A kinship relationship (wife) is attested between figures at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 484 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 484)

  "And when he had plucked it from the branch as you have heard, it came to pass that the small branch remained in his wife's hand, as it often happens that one holds something in one's hand without thinking one holds anything."

• attestation: A death event (death) involving Adam is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 484 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 484)

  "And as soon as they had eaten the mortal fruit, which rightly should be called mortal, for through it death came to both of them first and then to all their heirs,"

• attestation: Adam is mentioned in the narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 5 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 5)

  "but Eve still held in her hand the branch that had remained from the fruit that Adam had eaten, and never afterward did she let go of that branch, nei"

• attestation: Adam participates in narrative events at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 5 (sentence 3) (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 5)

  "And when it happened that they looked upon each other and saw themselves naked, and they recognized the shameful parts of one another, they were ashamed — to that extent they already felt the weight of their wrongdoing — then each of the two covered the most unsightly parts that were upon them;"

• attestation: A journey or movement by Adam is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 5 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 5)

  "and when He who knows all thoughts and all hearts knew that they had sinned in this way, He came to them and called upon Adam first, and it was right and fitting that he should be more greatly accused than the woman."

• attestation: Adam participates in narrative events at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 5 (sentence 6) (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 5)

  "For the woman was of so poor a constitution and so feeble,"

• attestation: Adam is mentioned in the narrative at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 486 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 486)

  "for this reason God called upon Adam first, and when He had spoken the stern sentence:"

• attestation: A death event (die) involving Adam is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 486 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 486)

  "as one who was made from the rib of man, and it was right that she should be obedient to man, not man to her;"

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by Adam is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 486 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 486)

  "for this reason God called upon Adam first, and when He had spoken the stern sentence:

"You shall eat your bread in sweat," He did not wish that the woman should escape free, without being a partner and companion in the punishment, just as she had been companion in the wrongdoing, so He said to her: "In sorrow and in pain shall you bring forth your offspring."

• attestation: Military action involving Adam is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 486 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 486)

  "" Afterward He cast them both out of paradise, which Scripture calls the paradise of delight."

• attestation: Adam participates in narrative events at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 486 (sentence 4) (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 486)

  "And when they were outside of that place, Eve still held the branch, beautiful and green, as one that had just been plucked, and she knew well that the tree from which the branch had been plucked was the cause of her disinheritance and her misery."

• attestation: Speech or dialogue by Adam is attested at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 486 (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 486)

  "Then she said that in remembrance of her great loss, which had come to her through that tree, she would keep the branch as long as she could and would store it in such a place that she would see it as a reminder of her great misfortune."

• attestation: Adam participates in narrative events at Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 486 (sentence 6) (Estoire del Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail) > Text > Page 486)

  "And then she thought that she had neither chest nor any other container in which she could store it, for in the time"