What does «lengua adámica» mean in Spanish?
- The Adamic language is, according to Jewish tradition (as recorded in the midrashim) and some Christians, the language spoken by Adam (and possibly Eve) in the Garden of Eden. It is variously interpreted as the language used by God to address Adam (the divine language), or the language invented by Adam with which he named all things (including Eve), as in the second creation myth of Genesis (Genesis 2:19). The utopia of recovering this unique language spoken by Humanity, a situation that according to the Bible was lost when the Tower of Babel was built, has been addressed both in the Middle Ages and in later times. In the Middle Ages, this quest would entail approaching the realization of a divine state and later its research would be related to universalism and the humanist impulse. In the Middle Ages, several Jewish commentators argued that Adam spoke Hebrew, a view also addressed in various ways by the late medieval Christian writer Dante Alighieri. In the early modern period, some authors continued to discuss the possibility of an Adamic language, some continuing to hold the idea that it was Hebrew, while others, such as John Locke, were more skeptical. More recently, a variety of Mormon authors have expressed various opinions on the nature of the Adamic language.