he lost the life of life itself, the power to transform it into Life. He ceased to be the priest of the world and became its slave. In the story of the Garden this took place in the cool of the day: that is, at night. And Adam, when he left the Garden where life was to have been eucharistic—an offering of the world in thanksgiving to God—Adam led the whole world, as it were, into darkness. In one of the most beautiful pieces of Byzantine hymnology Adam is pictured sitting outside, facing paradise,