““Eve's Fall symbolizes women's invention of agriculture, which came to be seen as the Original Sin that caused the loss of Paradise. The revolutionary changes in the human environment to which agriculture led required the introduction of the unnatural values Jesus (and other religious prophets) taught to "save" humanity from the disconnect between human nature and the environment that resulted from what is represented by Eve's eating from the Tree of Knowledge.””
![“By the fall a poison was handed to mankind through a woman [Eve], by the Redemption man was given salvation also through a woman [Mary].” quote by Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6be/saint-augustine-328_fall_by-the-fall-a-poison-was-handed-to-manki_439682.jpg)
![“Through a woman [Eve] a curse fell upon the earth; through a woman [Mary] as well there returned to the earth a blessing.” quote by Peter Damian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/82a/peter-damian-41635_blessing_through-a-woman-eve-a-curse-fell-upon-th_2501646.jpg)
