Editing Taboo (section)

=== Abrahamic ===

Possibly the most famous eating taboo (if not taboo, in general) is in the story of [[Adam and Eve]] in the [[Abrahamic religions]]. In the [[Judeo-Christian]] telling, found in {{Bibleverse||Genesis|3|HE}}, [[Adam]] and [[Eve]] are placed in the [[Garden of Eden]] by God and are told not to eat from a tree lest they die,<ref>{{bibleverse|Genesis|3:3|9|3:3}}</ref> but Eve is promptly tempted by a [[Serpents in the Bible#Eden|serpent]] (often identified as [[Satan]] in disguise) to eat from the [[Tree of the knowledge of good and evil]] because they will surely not die,<ref>{{bibleverse|Genesis|3:4|9|3:4}}</ref> rather, they might become "like [[God in Christianity|God]]".<ref>{{bibleverse|Genesis|3:5|9|3:5}}</ref> Eve violates the eating taboo and eats from the [[Forbidden fruit#Biblical Story|forbidden fruit]] of the tree, shortly giving some fruit to her companion, Adam.<ref>{{bibleverse|Genesis|3:6|9|3:6}}</ref> After eating the forbidden fruit, Adam and Eve are aware of their nakedness and cover themselves with fig leaves and hide from God.<ref>{{bibleverse|Genesis|3:7–8|9|3:7–8}}</ref> God realizes that they are hiding and interrogates them about having eaten from the tree whereupon Adam assigns the blame to Eve and Eve assigns it to the serpent.<ref>{{bibleverse|Genesis|3:9–13|9|3:9–13}}</ref> As a result, God condemns Eve with pain in childbirth and subordination to her husband, he condemns Adam to have to labor on the earth for his food and be reduced into the earth at death, and in the Christian tradition, he condemns all of humanity for this [[original sin]].<ref>{{bibleverse|Genesis|3:16–19|9|3:16–19}}</ref>{{sfn|Collins|2014|p=unpaginated}} God then expels Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden lest they eat from the [[Tree of life (biblical)|Tree of Life]] and become immortal "like Him".<ref>{{bibleverse|Genesis|3:22|9|3:22}}</ref>

In [[Islam]], the story of [[Adam and Eve#Islam|Adam and Eve]] is quite different, though it contains an eating taboo: the [[Quran]] mentions that [[Adam in Islam|Adam]] ([[Arabic language|Arabic]]: {{lang|ar|'''آدم'''}}), as the successive authority of earth by decree of Allah, is placed in a paradisal garden (not [[Jannah]] nor the [[Garden of Eden]])<ref>{{YouTube|id=Vn0eMv3VTIM|title=
‎ما هي الجنة التي أنزل الله منها سيدنا آدم عليه السلام – 
‎الشيخ الشعراوي}}</ref> therein along with [[Eve#Islam|his wife]] (unnamed in the Quran, though the [[Hadith]] gives her the name Ḥawwā’, Arabic: {{lang|ar|'''حواء'''}});<ref>{{qref|2|30|b=y}}</ref><ref>{{qref|2|35|b=y}}</ref> such a paradise this garden was, that they would never go hungry nor unclothed,<ref>{{qref|20|118|b=y}}</ref> nor would they ever thirst or be exposed to the sun's heat.<ref>{{qref|20|119|b=y}}</ref> Allah took a promise from Adam:<ref>{{qref|20|115|b=y}}</ref>

{{blockquote|˹Allah said,˺ “O Adam! Live with your wife in Paradise and eat from wherever you please, but do not approach this tree, or else you will be wrongdoers.”|{{qref|7|19|c=y}}}}

[[Iblis]], angered at his expulsion from Jannah for refusing to bow to Adam at his inception, decided to trick Adam and his wife into being shunned by Allah, just as he was. Allah had warned Adam and his wife about Iblis, telling them that he was a "clear enemy".<ref>{{qref|2|208|t=si|b=y}}</ref><ref>{{qref|20|117|b=y}}</ref> Iblis [[Oath#Islamic tradition|swore]] in the name of Allah that he was their sincere advisor, revealed unto Adam and his wife each other's nakedness, and convinced them to eat from the forbidden tree so that they may never taste death.<ref>{{qref|7|20–21|b=y}}</ref><ref>{{qref|20|120|b=y}}</ref> After eating from the tree (thus breaking the eating taboo), Allah removes Adam and his wife from their paradisal garden, telling them that mankind will be condemned with some being enemies with others on the earth wherein they will be provided habitation and provision, for a while,<ref>{{qref|7|22–24|b=y}}</ref><ref>{{qref|20|123|b=y}}</ref> and “There you will live, there you will die, and from there you will be resurrected.”{{qref|7|25|b=y|s=y}}

In the [[Gnosticism|Gnostic]] telling of this story, the taboo is a plot by the [[Archon (Gnosticism)|archons]] to keep Adam in a state of ignorance by preventing him from eating the fruit, which allows him to attain [[Gnosis#Gnosticism|gnosis]] after the serpent, who is viewed as representative of the [[Pleroma#Gnosticism|divine world]], convinces him and Eve to eat it.<ref>{{cite book|first=Stefan|last=Rossbach|title=Gnostic Wars|orig-date=1999|date=August 7, 2019|publisher=[[Edinburgh University Press]]|page=51|isbn=9781474472180}}</ref>

A [[looking taboo]] can be found in the Judeo-Christian telling of the story of [[Lot (biblical person)|Lot]] found within the [[Book of Genesis]]. In {{Bibleverse||Genesis|19|HE}}, two [[angels#christianity|angels]] in the form of men arrived in [[Sodom and Gomorrah|Sodom]] at eventide and were invited by Lot to spend the night at his home. The men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and demanded Lot that he bring his two guests out so that they might "know" them; instead, Lot offered up his two daughters, who had not "known" man, but they refused. As dawn was breaking, Lot's visiting angels urged him to get his family and flee, so as to avoid being caught in the impending disaster for the iniquity of the city. The command was given, "Flee for your life! Do not look behind you, nor stop anywhere in the Plain; flee to the hills, lest you be swept away."<ref name=Schwartz>{{cite book|last=Schwartz|first=Howard|title=Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism|year=2004|publisher=Oxford University Press |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=60iVk1p8Y9IC&q=Lot%27s+wife&pg=PA466 |isbn=9780195358704}}</ref>{{rp|465}} Whilst fleeing, [[Lot's wife]] broke the looking taboo by turning to look back at the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah and was turned into a pillar of salt as punishment for disobeying the angels' warning.<ref>{{bibleverse|Genesis|19:26|9|19:26}}</ref><ref name=Schwartz/>{{rp|466}}