Actually I was trying to speak to a larger mythic conception. There are some cosmologies where people understand that they came from some other place and either dropped down to this middle world, or in some cases crawled up into it from a lower world.
Even our modern concept that we are 'ascending apes' is, or functions as, a cosmological picture.
If I were to believe, let us say, that we were fallen angels -- that we had a privileged existence in some other sphere of being and fell from that condition -- that view would amount to a cosmology. But it would also mean that because I had fallen, that I had a personal responsibility in my present condition.
Based in obfuscation? I don't think so. I am not so much asserting any particular view of my own, but rather trying to elucidate the understanding that mythologies express.
Personally, I cannot successfully imagine a Garden of Eden and believe in it.
But this issue really revolves around the question of how we conceive of ourselves in
this world, and what responsibilities and tasks we have before us.
I get the impression that you are working hard to set me up as a desired and in a sense *needed* theist against whom you can wage ideological war? You must know by now that this entire polarity is set-up because people need to engage in such battles, and often they have a personal stake in the matter.
Instead of getting all invested in polarity and the conflict that arises from it (though I would not deny that there terrestrial battles of consequence) I prefer a lighter approach.
And you must know too that one person's obfuscation is another person's 'enlightening discourse'.
