Moroccan Story of Eden
This story (slightly rephrased) was told in ‘Like the Flowing River’ by Paulo Coelho.
A Moroccan tribe have this idea of how original sin came about.
Snake: Eat the apple.
Eve: No I mustn’t.
Snake: But you need to be more beautiful for Adam.
Eve: No I don’t. There are no other women, so it is just the two of us.
Snake: No. He has another woman. He hides her in that well over there.
Eve walks over to the well with the snake. She peers over the ledge and glistening in a pool of dark water, peering right back at her is the most beautiful woman she has ever seen.
Out of fear and jealousy she eats the apple.
The tribe say that paradise is to be regained by anyone who can look at their own reflection and feel no fear.
