Gardens represent a form of ultimate control over nature - cultivated land with the same characteristics as the outside world, but tailored to suit human needs. Agriculture was still in its infancy when these kinds of myths would have started evolving - it was still a form of "magic".
If you take it metaphorically and say that some people were booted out of an area where cultivation was beginning to be common, then forced to fend for their own in an area that was harder to work/less conducive to cultivation... [shrugs]
Skipper - having my own garden, I expect that since God has proved fairly lazy about most other things, he probably just said "fuck it" to that one too - roses are a lot of bloody work, literally. It takes a certain level of insanity to spend your time getting snagged and scratched and torn by a bush that's going to give you only 1 month's worth of blooms in some cases. Plus, the sheer number of pests he thought to also create make it exhausting.
Interestingly enough, moving to agriculture was not the brightest move humanity made. You're tied to one area, you're taking in a less varied diet (even if you plant more than one staple crop, you're not getting the varied nutrients that a gatherer would find) and (speaking from experience having few tools, and little money, and only my own back) getting things to grow is HARD WORK. Way more hard than killing a mammoth once every two weeks or so. Constant fucking work. Like...the insanity of the roses times 12. Plus, you have to find a place to store the surplus, and someone could decide to overtake it so you have to organize to defend it...
If you take it metaphorically and say that some people were booted out of an area where cultivation was beginning to be common, then forced to fend for their own in an area that was harder to work/less conducive to cultivation... [shrugs]
Skipper - having my own garden, I expect that since God has proved fairly lazy about most other things, he probably just said "fuck it" to that one too - roses are a lot of bloody work, literally. It takes a certain level of insanity to spend your time getting snagged and scratched and torn by a bush that's going to give you only 1 month's worth of blooms in some cases. Plus, the sheer number of pests he thought to also create make it exhausting.
Interestingly enough, moving to agriculture was not the brightest move humanity made. You're tied to one area, you're taking in a less varied diet (even if you plant more than one staple crop, you're not getting the varied nutrients that a gatherer would find) and (speaking from experience having few tools, and little money, and only my own back) getting things to grow is HARD WORK. Way more hard than killing a mammoth once every two weeks or so. Constant fucking work. Like...the insanity of the roses times 12. Plus, you have to find a place to store the surplus, and someone could decide to overtake it so you have to organize to defend it...
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