Does anyone know "the story of the fall" in religions besides Judeo-Chrisitanity and Buddhism?

Question

I grew up hearing the Genesis account of the fall with the serpent and Adam and Eve, and I also read recently about the Buddhist (and I'm assuming Hindu) account of how humans for one thing, lost their natural luster and developed a dependency on what later evolved into rice when one of the sexless flying self illumined self fed creatures ate for the first time. (The Story of Buddhism by Donald S. Lopez Jr. p. 20). I'm very interested in how stories of the origins of the present spiritual state of humanity came about.

Answer 1

Try Karen Armstrong's "A Brief History of Myth" a short work in which she gives an overview of the almost universal idea of man's fall from the golden age.

Then try, for some more advanced reading, her book "A History of God" in which she gives an overview of the historical development of the theme of God in the Jewish, Christian and Muslim traditions.

WARNING: If you believe in interpreting the bible literally stay away form these books as they will probably upset you somewhat.  Open-minded people, spiritual or not, however will find it eye-opening.

Answer 2

The Old Testament was finalized by Jews in captivity, in Babylon, circa 600 BCE...

It was a virtual copy of the Sumerian Creation Story called the Enuma Elish, which was written nearly 2000 years before that...

Answer 3

You will drive yourself to boredom trying to get out of that vicious circle of preponderance and guile.  And you will bust your head trying to imagine and rationalize all the different aspects and concepts that reveal through books such as the bible all the possible arrangements of the celestial nightmare that finally has one just forgetting about it and going with pure intuition.  As it is we have what we perceive consciously and we have what may be the result of our archetypes and how we perceive from what has filtered through to us from our unconscious activities.

Try the Urantia Book for a continuation of a stab at giving the whole concept more substance than what is available.