Eve

Eve doesn't appear in the Greek Septuagint Genesis but Eua (Εὐά) and Zoue (Ζωή) does.

Linear B / Mycenaean

Greek

In Genesis

Eve is only a character in Hebrew Genesis (250-68BCE dead sea scrolls).

Eve is NOT named in Greek Genesis (290BCE Septuagint LXX),

She is instead named by role "the cry of the life animating force" (Eua Zoe / Εὔα ζωή):

• woman (gune) - first she is given the named-role of "woman/gune"
• zoe (ζωή) - second she is given the named-role of "zoe/ζωή"
  • ζωή (Zoe) – "life" ; the condition or force of being alive, vitality, animation. It refers to what makes something alive, not how someone lives. In Genesis it is naming a principle; sometimes used instead of Εὔα
  • ζωῆς (zōēs) "of life" or "of living."
• eua (Εὔα) - lastly she is given the named-role of "eua/Εὔα"
  • Εὔα (Εὖαν / Eúa) – one who cries εὐαί, i.e. a Bacchanal, a name of Bacchus (Hsch)
  • Ἀώα (Aóa) – This variation also appears in the Greek and is another form of her name, though less common.

Eua Zoe (Εὐά Ζωή) - the Bacchic Cry that Restores Animated Life Force

In the Greek Septuagint, Eve is more accurately read as Εὐά–Ζωή, not a neutral personal name but a ritual-functional designation. The form Εὐά transparently aligns with εὐάς (εὐάδος), attested in Orphic and classical sources as “one who cries εὐαί”—a Bacchic initiate or ecstatic maiden (κούρη) whose identity is constituted by ritual voice rather than genealogy (Orph. Hymn 49.1). LSJ preserves both the substantive sense (female participant in Dionysiac rites) and the adjectival extension (Bacchic, frenzied), while Hesychius records Εὔας as a name of Dionysos, demonstrating that the cry itself could function as a divine epithet. This establishes a clear ritual chain: εὐαί (performative cry) → εὐάς (ecstatic role) → Εὔας (divine identity), in which sound, function, and divinity collapse into a single semantic field.

• ζωή with ψυχή (psyche/soul)
• and with τὸ ζῆν (“the act/state of living”)
• ψυχή psuche - breath; animating principle; that which departs at death; life-force

Ζωή, as Hesychius glosses it (ζωή· ζωή, ψυχή, τὸ ζῆν), denotes not narrative “life” but the animating condition itself—the vital force or breath (ψυχή) that distinguishes living beings (ζῶντα) from inert matter. When Εὐά is associated with ζωή, the language is technical rather than sentimental: the Bacchic cry is the operative agent that restores ζωή. Directionality is crucial. The cry does not express life; it reactivates it, calling the initiate back from a liminal, deathlike collapse into restored animation. This explains her designation as μήτηρ πάντων τῶν ζώντων—not a domestic ancestor of humans, but a source-principle of reanimation for all living beings. Read this way, Εὐά is a φωνητικόν boēthos—a battle partner in ritual danger—whose responsibility is nothing less than to bring the initiate back from near-death and complete the catharsis. Far from a “helper” in the diminished sense, she is the operator of resurrection within the rite.

More reading

• Genesis Translation from Source
• Adam
• Adam and Eve are Greek Names - trace back to Linear B
• Cosmic Egg - Did you wonder about that "cry of animated life force"? did you wonder about Adam "human as formed substance"? How was Adam "molded" in the Garden of Eden? This article talks about cracking that egg...
• Medea, Medusa, Echidnaic Priesthood and scythian / amazonian roots
  • did you wonder what an Eua Boethos was, and where she got her training?

Also of interest, if you wonder why Greek

• Greek is the Original Language of Christianity - if you're Christian, Greek is your primary source.
• Old Testament Greek Origins - the evidence for earlier Hebrew Old Testament is shaky, the evidence for primary Greek is strong