The first sin - Adam, Eve, and the (female) Serpent (Often identified as Lilith.) at the entrance to Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. Medieval Christian art often depicted the Edenic Serpent as a woman, thus both emphasizing the Serpent's seductiveness as well as its relationship to Eve. Several early Church Fathers, including Clement of Alexandria and Eusebius of Caesarea, interpreted the Hebrew 'Heva' as not only the name of Eve, but in its aspirated form as 'female serpent.'