1
Adam and Chavah dwell in a cave outside the Garden, remembered in the Eastern tradition as the Cave of Treasures.
2
The cave becomes at once shelter, burial-place, archive, and sign of the inheritance lost and still remembered.
3
Gold, myrrh, and incense are associated with the treasures preserved there.
4
The received Christian recension later turns these treasures into a forward-looking sign carried from Adam's world toward the birth of the Anointed.