
Eve Wood-Langford was raised to accept the beautiful Genesis creation story of Adam and Eve not as biblical illlustration of the origin of sin, but as an important myth-history long misinterpreted in the Judaic/Christian monotheist tradition. In her youth she accepted the Unitarian view of the myth as the story of a human ‘rise’ rather than a fall, ’from which have arisen all the distinctive achievements and possibilities of human life.’ It was not until much later in life when her children were grown that she read a translation of the pre-biblical epic poem of Gilgamesh and saw within almost all the components of the Eden myth. Another biblical parallel in the poem was the story of the building of a ship on the shores of the Euphrates in which to save all human and animal life in a predicted flood sent by the gods. Her book: ‘Eden: the Buried Treasure’ tells the story of the original naked woman and her inspirational role in the pre-biblical allegory. Eve’s other interest is a life-long quest for Arthur’s forward base – her conclusions based on a number of small clues, common-sense and her misreading of a Latin name, are found in her hypothesis ‘Looking for Camelot.’


