The tree of the knowledge of good and evil is a tree that stands in the middle of the Garden of Eden, where Adam and Eve happily existed. They lived happily until a serpent tempted Eve to eat from the forbidden fruit growing on this tree. She ate it, gave the fruit to Adam, who also ate. From that moment they became immediately aware of their nakedness and were ashamed of themselves. With this significant tree, man really got to choose something. Without this tree, man would have had no free choice to do right or wrong.
The Forbidden Tree I by Arnix consists of a shaft with on each of the two sides triple arms, thus a total of six side arms, image of man emerging from the divine middle shaft. Thus in total there are seven branches in which the seven apples are placed with the Latin name ‘malus’ meaning both ‘apple’ and ‘bad’. The apples symbolize temptation and original sin. Six stands for the number of man, and by contrast the number seven is the number of perfection. The bunches of grapes and the grain corns symbolise fertility and lust. The ear of corn represents prosperity and abundance.
The green tree snake, who is Satan and protector of the treasure, symbolizes the soloist actions of the perpetrators and the Fall from grace. The snake as terrifying phallus from psychoanalysis, is sowing doubt and discord with his forked tongue. And to make matters worse, the abuser, just like the snake, owns the mysterious ability to crawl periodically out of his skin, leaves his skin behind, and just lives on…
