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> Eve’s ribs are bold slash marks, as if the artist wanted her to appear almost skeletal.

The artist probably wanted to highlight the fact that there are an even number of them, in contrast to Adam's odd number, since the story is that one of his was taken (to make Eve).

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Interesting that Adam appears with no ribs at all then.

Everything religious has a reason until you point out why that doesn't make sense, and then the response is, "it's a metaphor, don't take it seriously".

I'm going to extend that pattern to it's logical conclusion and conclude that none of it makes sense and nobody should take any of it seriously.

I think they were there, just very faded with age. I can faintly see one or two if I zoom in on the picture. But I could be wrong, too.

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