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So I just wanted to reply because I interpreted the same part of the story in a different way.

In the Mayan creation myth my thoughts on when the gods took away the humans ability to see and understand everything was that the person who wrote it did not know everything. So there way of explaining this was to add this last part to the end. This last part is what helps people with the faith. If I were Mayan and I believed in this myth I think I would believe that the gods did this as a challenge as well as to make humans lesser than gods. The challenge is the faith. I would believe that the gods wanted to give the challenge of faith in order to seperate true worshippers from others. This would help because even though I didn't understand the world I would still have faith in the stories I was told and believe in.

I think this works the same way with Genesis. The base of any creation myth is faith. You have to have faith that what you believe is right. So even though we believe that God cast us out of the garden of eden we have faith that if we live by the bible that one day we will return to garden or heaven.

Creation myths are made to explain the unexplainable. If we can't understand wouldn't it be easy to believe a story where we were created to never understand the true meanings of the universe.

I am sorry if this doesn't make much sense its hard to type your thoughts.