Could Mass Arise Without the Higgs Boson?

Yes. Torsion of the particle spin axis. What would ordinarily be moving mass less at the speed of light is moving semi-toroidally in sum as the locally bound mass particle. Like a knot (or strand of knots) mass particles emerge in spacetime through the spin torsion. This torsion gravitationally interacts with all other so bound particles in our spacetime dimension. Everything is falling, spinning, and decaying.