In the beginning all man had to do was live in bliss in the garden.

Doesn't sound like a bad life. Just build a little cabin out in the woods and live off the land.

It could be perfect.

But we question. We were given the ability to think of more.

The snake said eat an apple from the tree of knowledge.

A snake pillar.

We were given the ability to think past our surrounding for a reason. To do more than sit in paradise.

What if a snake pillar is a repository of knowledge?

I do also like the though of a snake pillar being electricity. Maybe sometimes it is, but there seems to be plenty of links to support the idea that they hid repositories of knowledge inside of pillars around the globe.