Ostensibly, the first man, Adam, did not have a mother, which puts us on alert: all subsequent men having mothers are yet, as sons of Adam, beyond natural birth.
The cult of the fully formed creates the gods of mythology, who emerge as a pantheon; in Hinduism, too, gods are fixed and timeless, the concepts man creates in mirror image.
We are all of us self-categorised as man, it is to this generality all laws are addressed, in this common name all action performed, man achieves all things, man is responsible.
If Adam wasn’t born of woman, then neither in Adam are we, the perennial man of history, our context produces man fully formed, and so addressed, and so our destiny.
