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The Garden of Eden
In the Judaic tradition, the symbol of the Garden of Eden is a kind of reading back of the agricultural way of life into our own prehistory. How can we be what we are? What is it that we've come from? That is the true perfection from which we've fallen. The Israelites had some difficulty with agriculture because that was too much involvement in the land itself. One could read the story of Cain and Abel in that light. It's just a degree, slightly with that.