Figure 11.

The Terrestrial Paradise, from Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, Limbourg Brothers, c. 1410.

Here the Garden of Eden is imagined as a circle, where the original harmony is rendered in the archetypal image of wholeness, a mandala. This is the state before the separation of consciousness from its ground, symbolized as the Garden, in which Adam and Eve, lingering with nostalgic glances outside the gate, yearn to remain.