The Adam and Eve story represents the realization of vulnerability. The catalyst for this was the idea that women make major physical and emotional investments in the rearing of child. Women realized the vulnerability of their children to predation (from snakes for example), and as a result the realization of the investment made. Women then, by necessity, "entrapped" men into a loyal, supportive relationship in order to protect child from predation. Its awfully Darwinian.
Furthermore, It's not just a fear of nature (snake) it's fear of the malevolence found in mankind. The story of Adam and Eve is about the moment when mankind ascended from being controlled by nature natural selection to being subjugated to social selection and the social hierarchy. We removed ourselves from nature (naivete, bliss, lower self-consciousness) and thrust ourselves into a social world where we have choices of good and evil. Two ways to hand down our cultural tradition. Love or corruption.
The story is all about the ascension of consciousness from naivety to self-awareness. The Garden of Eden is the idea that you can be naive of the reality that surrounds you. Your child dies? Oh well, have another. It's only when you eat the figurative fruit of knowledge, and experience an ascension in understanding, that you begin to be presented with a choice. The left hand path or the right hand path. Good or evil. Contribute to the greater society of light, or participate in the shadows with the corrupting culture of evil. I mean this literally. These are real.
You can go further and say that women were struck by evil before men. Women truly understand horror (loss of child). Women, theoretically, then are able to embody that horror more completely. This is probably why Satanism places women at the top of their hierarchy as priestess. They're the original sin. The realization of loss and malevolence. They stepped out of the garden and into a world where good and evil are a day to day pursuit. The embodiment of good or evil in our day to day actions. Men more or less reluctantly followed. This is also why satanism believes that they are the light bringers. They perform horrible things in order to ascend consciousness to the next level. It's why they must be public about it (symbols, in plain sight).
I believe we are on the cusp of a moment where mankind as a collective consciousness will realize the horror we are capable of. Industrialized malevolence on children. It mirrors the Adam and Eve story quite well on a grand scale.