The stories about the origin of evil and death come from the Neolithic and are reworked in the West in the Chalcolithic. In the West, the origin of evil is linked to a post-creation human action, original sin. In the East it is linked to the emanation of the divinity towards the exterior, and it is prior or simultaneous to the unfolding of the cosmos in the spatiotemporal plurality.
The oriental vision better explains the transcendental scope of the original evil and the emergence of death as a universal phenomenon. A synthesis of both visions is suggested through an articulation of the literal and moral meaning of the sacred stories with their allegorical and mystical meaning.