A long time ago i interviewed the author of this book, who claimed that in the past all humans were hermaphrodites and had very long life spans. Here’s his youtube: https://youtu.be/p4mhp_azWwA
Some interesting connections were drawn, but its all a bit out there. The connection that hisband means tiller of the ground lines up with the slave race hypothesis, that we were genetically modified by higher beings at some point for a less than altruistic purpose…