Before doctrine, before denominations, before theology - there was a question: What happened to the human condition? After the Garden: Adam, Azazel, and the First Giants presents a continuous reading journey through some of the oldest surviving sacred traditions: Genesis, the Life of Adam and Eve, 1 Enoch, Jubilees, the Apocalypse of Abraham, and the Book of Giants. Instead of separating them by religion or history, this volume lets them speak together as one unfolding story - the story ancient writers told to explain why humanity feels both aware and displaced within the world. Genesis describes the crossing of a boundary. Later texts describe the consequences. In these writings Adam and Eve mourn outside the garden, the Watchers descend and reveal forbidden knowledge, giants walk the earth, and the world itself becomes unstable. For thousands of years these accounts were read as myths of sin and punishment. Read together, they form something more unsettling: an exploration of the birth of human self-awareness and the distance it created between humanity and the living world. This is not a new translation and not a retelling. It is a carefully arranged reading edition drawn from public domain sources, lightly modernized for clarity and continuity, allowing ancient voices to remain intact while revealing the pattern they collectively describe. For readers of mythology, religion, philosophy, and ancient mysteries, After the Garden offers a different way to encounter familiar names - not as isolated scriptures, but as fragments of a shared attempt to understand why knowledge, mortality, and civilization arrived together. The garden may not only be a place remembered in the past. It may be the condition humanity has been trying to understand ever since.