Whoever controls the people’s fears becomes master of their souls –Niccolo Machiavelli Aída Reboredo Arroyo …. fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that [h]moves on the earth. To subdue and exercise dominion does not mean to abuse, to kill, or to slave; instead it means to guide, to protect, and to take care. The context of Genesis is precise; to dominate creation excluded animals slaughtering because all beings of the alluded Era were vegetarians: I have given you every herb…. and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food. Also, to every beast of the earth, to every bird of the air, and to everything that creepson the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food; and it was so (1). This peaceful coexistence ended when Adam and Eve, tempted by the most cunning of all the living beings of the field that Yahweh God had made, ate from the forbidden tree of the knowledge of good and evil, becoming gods. In response Yahweh cursed the entire Earth, and said: Behold, Adam –generic name of humankind- has become like one of Us, to…
