The idea of original sin does not seem to be a very workable idea to explain the problem of evil. It makes God look incompetent to have a 'fallen' creation. Useless theory and unknown before Christianity.

I think the various Mary's in the Gospel are designed to be replacements for the Great Goddess. They are fragments of Her and represent various attributes of her in tradition, such as mother, bride, weeper, anointer, etc.  Because the Jesus story has Pagan themes -- dying and rising young lord and his holy mother -- the Pagan audience needed to be clued in that Mary is not exactly the same as the Great Goddess, quite different, in fact quite diminished. So we have her saying, "I am the handmaiden of the Lord (male god)," and subjugating herself to him. But when she says, "My soul magnifies the Lord," that could be taken to mean she is a Christ. Creature birthing the one through whom all things were created. Paradox. Human as we all are, birthing . . . what