r of humanity from the garden, and their descent into awareness of their nakedness, sexuality, fruitfulness, the pain of childbirth, and ultimately death.
             The ancient Greek Oedipal myth is likewise structured upon a young person's attempt to avoid the dictates of the divine powers, the powers that created and control him. Oedipus flees his childhood home, thinking to flee his foretold fate to kill his father and marry his mother, but while attempting to avoid this terrible happenstance, he actually unwitting falls from grace, kills his father in a roadside quarrel and marries his now-widowed mother as a reward for solving the riddle of the Sphinx. The Sphinx is the tempting figure of the Greek tale, as the creature tempts Oedipus into knowledge and fulfillment of his fate. Freud suggested that the Oedipus myth relates what all young men and women secretly desire to do, although they suppress this desire. All children wish at some point possess their first figure of desire in the form of the mother, and kill the father.
             Thus, the reasons for Adam's disobedience coul
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