Indeed. A translation is an interpretation, and then there are further interpretations of the translation. Unfortunately we don't know for certain who the author of Genesis was, therefore to which tradition he belonged.

You say 'other Scriptures', then only mention the Bible, albeit 'for example'. I would say study as many 'Scriptures' as possible, e.g. Vedas and other Hindu texts, Plato (the most prolific of the Greeks on this theme), Kabbalism, Gnosticism etc. (We can also take into account what we know about the universe from the best of modern science and spirituality.)

You mention Jesus, but we don't know whether his understanding was the same as the interpretation I'm discussing – it might have been. We do know that he did not tell the 'Mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven' to just anyone, but only to his apostles in private. We also know that the Roman Church chose the texts for the canon, therefore the ones that conformed to the message it wanted to promote.

I'm surprised that you say that the style of the first three chapters is not that of allegory. What else can it be? It surely cannot be understood literally. Do serpents speak? Can a woman be made out of the rib of a man?

Your last part is interesting. My own 'spiritual awakening' has taken me down a different path although, as you can tell, it has led me to be deeply interested in Christianity. My own position on the Bible is that is hard to take seriously many claims made for it by various Christians. Reading d'Olivet and Best has helped me to think that there is something much deeper there hidden underneath the surface, that Genesis is actually an esoteric text.