Glimpse of the Natural Order

You remind me of some medieval theologians I studied long ago: The sin (in the garden of Eden) implied the fall of Man as well as of Nature; Christ's redemption will be of Man as well as of Nature. I could never accept this utopian mythology because Sin is not a force that could bring death about; in Genesis, death is a wage of sin, a divine punishment for disobedience,  is [voluntarily] inflicted by God, and applies only to humans. As for redemption, it never occurred, as humans have kept on dying after the [supposedly] redemptive crucifixion -- that's why some theologians  postponed human immortality [redeemed mankind] to the time after the resurrection of the dead. The fact is that death triumphs over life and, in the late Middle Ages, there was a festival where parading ox-carts carried powerful agents such as Mars or Military Charioteer, the personified virtues, and the personified Death. These floats were called Triumphs, and so were the images of the special playing cards which were invented in Italy in the early 15th century and were also called Tarocchi (Tarots, after the French version).  In secular thinking, Death is natural and triumphs. [See the Sforza-Visconti Tarocchi.]