Augustine proposed that human nature is inherently damaged and tainted because — in the Garden of Eden — the mother of all people, Eve, sinned against God by eating an apple from the Tree of Knowledge.
Many myths which tell of a Golden Age – such as the story of the Garden of Eden – imagine humankind going unclothed, as if in some previous glorious and innocent time we had nothing to hide or fear from one another.
Probably the most obscure of the hypotheses suggests red and green may go back to " paradise plays, " which were traditional plays performed on Christmas Eve about Adam and Eve's banishment from the Garden of Eden.