5 Eden Locations in the World

Ethiopia / Sudan (Cush Race), Sahara Area (Negroid Race), Athena (Kaukasoid Race), Bali / Dewata Island (Mongoloid Race) and Papua / Paradise Island (Melanesoid Race) 

Finally, a private research project that has begun since 1994, can only be completed Mid November 2010. The things that become big question mark in my mind for 16 years, can only complecated after two weeks of back and forth over the lake Paniai, Enarotali. Maybe also because my portrait painted a picture of Eden Park in Moiyent Donatus Catholic Church Enarotali??


Garden of Eden story was written in the Book of Genesis chapters 1 and 2. History is written by the prophet Moses when he led the Israelites wilderness for about 40 years. Moses was a lot of knowledge from an angel sent from God during the journey to the Promised Land (Exodus 33:2).

In summary, after God 'created' the heavens and the earth during the 'six days', God planted a garden in Eden, on the east side. In the Garden of Eden God placed man and grow every tree of the whole earth, interesting and good food; and the tree of life in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil (Genesis 2:8-9). But due to violation of the first man, then God cast out / return man to the place where he formed from the dust of the ground. Then God put some of cherubim (angels of God) with the sword of burning and darting for humans do not pick fruit from the tree of life (Genesis 3:23-24).

Garden of Eden was lost and did not know where its existence because the verses prior to Genesis 3:24, the prophet Moses did not write in full where the place of human creation, human beings who actually name it, where on the east side, and where God put a cherubim with a flaming sword flame and darting. While the verses after God expelled man from Eden, the prophet Moses wrote with clear who the man is, the place where they live and so on. Is this a part of God's plan to hide the garden of Eden?

Many people believe that the name of the man who was formed from the dust of the earth in Genesis 2:7 is Adam and including Agus Miradi, author of THE FIRST MAN WHO IS THAT said the first man was named Adam and he formed with clay around the area of Iraq. However, this statement can not be considered properly and still need to be investigated, because in Genesis 2 and 3, the prophet Moses did not mention the name of Adam as a man who was formed by land, but only write the 'man'. While Adam's name emerged only after the Lord God expelled man from the garden of Eden or after the murder of Abel by his brother Cain (Gen. 4:25).

There are doubts about the first human name, so that need further study. Because the Bible as the inspired book of God, the prophet Moses might not put words arbitrarily. Therefore, understanding 'human' is not necessarily equated with 'Adam' as a human being first.

This statement is supported by many experts, including the Sufis from Persia. They argued that Adam was not the first man and still no Adam-Adam else already created long before that, ie including early humans are believed Agus Miradi as above. Call it the Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi, a great Sufi once said that there are words of the Prophet, among others, say 'God has made no less than one hundred thousand Adam' (Futuhat Makkiya, II, p.. 607). Therefore likely that Adam is the Bible and the Qur'an has been the fathers of Israel, written by the prophet Moses. While the actual name of the first man to be placed in the garden of Eden into line with the mysterious disappearance of the garden of Eden.

Besides lack of clarity in the name of the first man who has the spirit, the Bible also does not explain where the location of the Garden of Eden to the east it (Gen 2:8-9). Whether around the Pison river that flows into the entire area around the river Gihon Havilah or surrounding land Kusy, or the river Tigris which flows east of Assyria and fence or dipinggiran Euphrates river - east or other areas of the world?

Investigations of late have proved that the Garden of Eden was located in Babil, Iraq or Assyrian (Enc. Brit. In "Ur"). But the question is, whether around the Iraqi people have said or at least prove that this is the tree of life which was hidden by God and guarded by the cherubim that smolder and darting to keep the road to the Garden of Eden? Or in Persian history, people have proved that it is 'pairidaeza' (fenced garden) of ancient Persia or 'Hadiqah al-Haqiqa' (Walled Garden of Truth) as is referred to the greatest Sufi poet of Persia, Abu al-Majd Ibn Adam Sana'i Majdud in the work of the most famous mystical? The answer, no. The experts - although never studied it, but no definitive answer that is almost equal to the Garden of Eden story in the book of genesis.

I myself have studied the various sources, learn some history books as a source of reference for + 16 years, but there is no historical fact that convinced me to say that's where the Garden of Eden, as written in the book of genesis. Of all the searches, the last led to one question: why the word 'pairidaeza' from the ancient Persian language which later became the English word 'paradise' that contains the meaning of Heaven and of Paradise, where the Bird of Paradise is one of the names of birds found only in Papua . Was the Garden of Eden was located in Papua?

The question is what makes me careful garden of Eden in Papua since 1994. Initially I thoroughly Mapia term which later I found the meaning: Tree of Truth is questionable. Then I found things similar to what Moses wrote in the book of Genesis / Genesis. There exist a number of similarities that I found that is concerning the position of Eden in the East, the first man to be placed, the tree of knowledge and the tree of life, and putting a burning cherubim and darting. All the reviews that I've now outlined in a book entitled: Mapia - Revealing Case of Losing the Garden of Eden.
Other things which I affirmed in the book that is concerning the process of soil creation and placement of the first human Papua. That, it turns out after I compare it with different races of mankind (Khoisan, Negroid, Caucasian, Mongoloid, Melanesoid and Australoid), then the Prophet Adam was told by the prophet Moses, after the expulsion in the garden of Eden that is derived Caucasian. While that is told Moses before the verses of the expulsion, which involves a further derivative of the youngest known to have racial Australoid stationed in Papua. Paradise Island.

That there are five garden of Eden, the garden of Eden the first in the region Ethiopia, Sudan, and Yemen are known to have a race fall Khoisan (Kush / Kusy / Cush). Garden of Eden both made in the vicinity south of the Sahara desert. Derivatives are known to have Negroid race. Then the Lord God is planning to create a garden that really shaped the Bird of Paradise. God originally created in the Greater Athens area of Greece. But the Lord God saw the Bird of Paradise is shaped promontory extending southward tilt so that God's looking for a place in the Eastern region, as told Prophet Moses in Genesis.

Initially the Lord God created a garden paradise in Bali. Human derivatives came to be known to have Mongoloid race or races of East Asia. But then God saw the island of Gods (has 9 god) does not have wings as beautiful as the Bird of Paradise. So in the end the Lord God of Papua as a garden paradise of choice, which is an island that really like the Bird of Paradise. Descendants of human Guinea (Arabic = naked) is then lowered Australoid race.
Why did God choose to send down revelation Kaukasoid Ras-revelation, why do Athens for instance Kaukasoid, why Bali and not in Mongolian? why Mapia and not Asia? Everything I describe in the book Mapia - Revealing Case of Losing the Garden of Eden.

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Other Link About Garden of Eden Story:
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1. Some Link About Garden of Eden
Garden of Eden Project Research // Fanding Garden of Eden in Papua
http://www.sarera.blogspot.com

2. Garden of Eden - New World Encyclopedia
The Garden of Eden (from Hebrew Gan Eden) is described by the Book of Genesis as Some scholars locate it in the Persian Gulf; others seek a location in
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Garden_of_Eden

3. The First River of Eden!
Whatever the case, it is quite clear that the Garden of Eden was located around the northern end of the Persian Gulf. Remarkably, this is exactly where
http://www.hope-of-israel.org/riveden.htm

4. East of the Garden of Eden - Mysteries of the Bible - Unexplained
During the 1991 Persian Gulf War, the Iraqi military targeted these oil Indeed, legend records that the Garden of Eden now lies `at the
http://unexplainedmysteries.yuku.com/topic/663

5. Returning to Eden - Ancient Roots
The area thought to be the Garden of Eden, which was flooded when Gulf that the Garden of Eden lies presently under the waters of the Persian Gulf,
http://www.mega.nu/ampp/eden/roots.html

6. Locating The Garden Of Eden: Evolution and History in The Urantia Book
The first clue to the location of the Garden is that it was "a long narrow of Dalmatia exist under the waters of the Persian Gulf, and the first Eden
http://www.truthbook.com/index.cfm?linkID=95

7. Eden: Definition from Answers.com
Eden n. Bible . The garden of God and the first home of Adam and Eve. Havillah is thought to have been the Arabian shore of the Persian Gulf.
http://www.answers.com/topic/eden

8. Out of Africa or Out of Eden: Does Science Contradict the Bible?
15 Feb 2009; Although it is possible that the garden of Eden was in Africa, it would have to Therefore, Mesopotamia or the Persian Gulf matches the
http://www.godandscience.org/apologetics/humans_out_of_africa.html

9. Garden of Eden - Geography
For the concept in cellular automata, see Garden of Eden pattern. genuine Bronze Age entrepot of the island Dilmun (now Bahrain) in the Persian Gulf,
http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/garden-of-eden/geography.html

10. Where Was The Garden Of Eden Located?
The Garden of Eden is the name of the place where Adam and Eve lived before those with the belief that Eden was near ancient Eridu, on the Persian Gulf.
http://m.sooperarticles.com/spirituality-articles/religion-articles/where-garden-eden-located-17519.html

11. The Garden of Eden - The Bible and Interpretation
Most scholars who have written recently about the Garden of Eden, however, usually place it in or around ancient Mesopotamia—anywhere from the Persian Gulf
http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/eden357918.shtml

12. myLot - Archaeological Proof of The Garden of Eden
Location of the Garden of Eden. It was on the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, In ancient inscriptions the Persian Gulf was called a "river." God Bless.
http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/824207.aspx

13. IBSS - Biblical Archaeology - Garden of Eden
See Has the Garden of Eden been located at last? for photos and details. Dilum was probably the island Bahrain in the Persian gulf.
http://www.bibleandscience.com/archaeology/eden.htm

14. Paper 73 - The Garden of Eden | Urantia Book
Immediate vicinity of their original home near the headwaters of the Persian Gulf. (825.4) 73:5.7 And so was the Garden of Eden made ready for the
http://www.urantia.org/en/urantia-book-standardized/paper-73-garden-eden

15. JewishEncyclopedia.com - EDEN, GARDEN OF
This is supposed to have been in the Persian Gulf or Nar Marratim ("stream of Though there is no one Babylonian legend of the Garden of Eden with which
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=39&letter=E

16. Whatever Happened to The Garden of Eden ?Whatever Happened
Persian Gulf — exactly where Zarins had located the. Garden of Eden." -"How to Find a River — No Divining Rod Needed," Biblical Archaeology Review
http://scienceandthebible.xanga.com/452982048/item/

17. Where is the garden of eden now? who do think lives there? is it a
18 Feb 2010 But the most likely explanation I've heard for the garden of Eden was that it was located at the northwest end of the Persian Gulf until the
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100218180713AAw5RiF

18. Garden of Eden, Eve
A discussion on the Garden of Eden. A source of information for deeper understanding This is supposed to have been in the Persian Gulf or Nar Marratim
http://mb-soft.com/believe/txh/eden.htm

19. The Garden of Eden
These rivers locate the Garden of Eden as on a modern landscape at the head of the Persian Gulf-- but not the present-day head of the Persian Gulf.
http://www.asa3.org/asa/pscf/2000/pscf3-00hill.html

20. Garden of Eden - Crystalinks
The Garden of Eden described in the Book of Genesis as being the place where for the garden: The first was an island in the Persian Gulf; the second,
http://www.crystalinks.com/gardenofeden.html

21. WHERE IS THE GARDEN OF EDEN?
But where is the Garden of Eden actually located? While some may speculate that it was somewhere in present-day Iraq, near the Persian Gulf, others believe
http://www.propheticrevelation.net/questions/garden_of_eden.htm

22. An American Garden of Eden | Mormonism Research Ministry
An American Garden of Eden. By Bill McKeever. The passage of time has that the one that locates Eden near the head of the Persian Gulf combines the
http://mrm.org/eden

23. Garden of Eden, Dilmun, Bahrain - Finally been located?
5 Mar 2009; The Garden of Eden is a location described in the Book of Genesis as being Dilum was probably the island Bahrain in the Persian gulf.
http://www.travelexplorations.com/garden-of-eden-dilmun-bahrain-finally-been-located.4563785-17545.html

24. Has the Garden of Eden been found?
More recently, some scholars have claimed that the Garden of Eden was situated at the head of the Persian Gulf, where the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers run
http://creation.com/has-the-garden-of-eden-been-found

25. Garden of Eden Location « Lettersfromitia's Blog
14 Mar 2010 To modern science, the Garden of Eden is about 140 meters below the current sea level just beyond the Persian Gulf. The bible says, “Now a
http://lettersfromitia.wordpress.com/2010/03/14/location-of-the-garden-of-eden/

26. The Garden of Eden Persian Gulf Bahrain Iran Jerusalem We've got
"The Garden of Eden" by Lucas Cranach der Ältere , a 16th century German depiction of Eden. I came upon a child of god He was walking along the road And I
http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-25600-World-History-Examiner~y2009m10d14-The-Garden-of-Eden-Persian-Gulf-Bahrain-Iran-Jerusalem-Weve-got-to-get-back-to-the-garden-YouTube

27. 1st Garden of Eden according to Ezekiel 47
the region of the second garden by The Euphrates and then to the sea of the Persian Gulf. Additional Scriptures including the first Garden of Eden.
http://sevenfoldtruth.com/eden/eden_from_ezekiel.htm

28. Where Was The Garden of Eden? - Jon Christian Ryter's Conservative
Landsberger, like Zarins, believe that seismic events over the ages caused the formation of the Persian Gulf. As the land mass split, the Garden of Eden was
http://www.jonchristianryter.com/2004/070704.html

29. Has the Garden of Eden been located at last?
14 Aug 2007; The area thought to be the Garden of Eden, which was flooded when Garden of Eden lies presently under the waters of the Persian Gulf,
http://ldolphin.org/eden/

30. Iraq's Garden of Eden: Restoring the Paradise that Saddam
30 Jul 2010; come together again near Basra and flow into the Persian Gulf. Turning the Garden of Eden into Hell The military was sent in to excavate canals and build dikes to conduct the water directly into the Gulf.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,709180,00.html

31. Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Garden of Eden
Some Biblical scholars have placed the Garden of Eden in what is now the Persian Gulf, see http://www.ldolphin.org/eden/. Others have suggested a location
http://encyclopedia.kids.net.au/page/ga/Garden_of_Eden

32. The Biblical Garden of Eden
The Biblical Garden of Eden had four rivers which spread forth from it. If the Garden was in the Persian Gulf area of southern Iran/Kuwait, then there would
http://www.israel-a-history-of.com/biblical-garden-of-eden.html

34. Garden of Eden - Conservapedia
20 Feb 2010; The Earthly Paradise (Garden of Eden), painted by Hieronymus Bosch Of these the first place it near the head of the Persian Gulf where
http://www.conservapedia.com/Garden_of_Eden

35. The Garden of Eden
Many scholars have tried to locate the Garden of Eden and have failed. and this river empties and pours its waters into the sea Miot (Persian Gulf),
http://www.logoschristian.org/eden.html

36. The Garden of Eden - Unexplained Mysteries Discussion Forums
Dr. Juris Zareins, says that the garden is in the Persian Gulf. As was stated in the post before mine, the Garden of Eden,
http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=98321

37. Garden of Eden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"The Garden of Eden" by Lucas Cranach der Ältere, a 16th century German Havillah is thought to have been the Arabian shore of the Persian Gulf.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_of_Eden

38. In Search of Eden
By D Laing. The other camp places Eden at the head of the Persian gulf and at the other end of [1] Dora Jane Hamblin; "Has the Garden of Eden been located at last?
http://www.biblemysteries.com/library/edens.htm

39. The Garden of Eden
This is the first mention of the garden of Eden in the Book of Genesis. The “land of Havilah” is thought to be situated on the Persian Gulf,
http://library.thinkquest.org/C0125521/_eden.htm 

Return to Eden by Daniel Pouzzner

Ancient Roots

The Eden motif is a mythological counterpart of a cognitive phenomenon intrinsic to humans, and probably intrinsic in many other examples (none yet known to humanity of course) of biologically evolved life at similar stages of development. This phenomenon springs from dysfunction and errors in computational engines of goal pursuit. Such engines are built around internal fitness metrics, and when these metrics become detached from reality, the engine pursues unrealistic goals. In such breakdowns, the metrics are often reified, so that the individual is chasing its own tail (e.g. transcendental meditation). Goal pursuit engines search for minimal effort methods of progressing toward goal satisfaction; when the constituent mechanisms of efficiency and parsimony malfunction, the individual expects to be satisfied through unrealistic shortcuts. In short, the individual expects to be able to cheat. Whole families of human institutions and ideologies, including all religions, have sprung from these phenomena.

The Eden motif itself, and the biblical tale of the flood, are in fact far older than the Bible, dating at least to the civilization of ancient Sumer. In the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh (ca. 2000BCE), King Gilgamesh's noble savage rival and companion Enkidu is reduced from idyllic immortality to civilized mortality through hapless sinful union with a fallen woman. In a subsequent quest for immortality, Gilgamesh finds a magical plant in the sea, but is robbed of his prize by a serpent. Many other details of the tale are echoed in the Hebrew Bible.

Edin is the Sumerian word for an uncultivated plain, so that “Eden” (reaching English by way of Akkadian and Hebrew through a chain of lexical borrowing) simply describes lowland geography, like that of present-day southeast Iraq where the Tigris and Euphrates meet (incidentally, in ancient times they reached the gulf separately, but marine regression has exposed a confluence).

Anthropology professor Juris Zarins has developed a thorough and archaeologically grounded theory of the Eden myth's origins. In an article in the May 1987 issue of Smithsonian, Dora Jane Hamblin articulated his theory:

In the past hundred years, since the discovery of ancient civilizations in modern Iraq, scholars have leaned toward the Tigris-Euphrates valley in general, and to the sites of southern Sumer, about 150 miles north of the present head of the Persian Gulf, in particular (map, above).

Source: http://www.mega.nu/ampp/eden/roots.html

To this southern Sumerian theory Dr. Juris Zarins, of Southwest Missouri State University in Springfield, would murmur: “You're getting warmer.” For Dr. Zarins, who has spent seven years working out his own hypothesis, believes that the Garden of Eden lies presently under the waters of the Persian Gulf, and he further believes that the story of Adam and Eve in—and especially out—of the Garden is a highly condensed and evocative account of perhaps the greatest revolution that ever shook mankind: the shift from hunting-gathering to agriculture.

No single scholarly discipline will suffice to cover the long, intricate road Zarins has followed to arrive at his theory. He began, as many another researcher has, with the simple Biblical account, which “I read forward and backward, over and over again.” To this he added the unfolding archaeology of Saudi Arabia (SMITHSONIAN, September 1983), where he spent his field time for more than a decade. Next he consulted the sciences of geology, hydrology and linguistics from a handful of brilliant 20th-century scholars and, finally, Space Age technology in the form of LANDSAT space images.

It is a tale of rich complexity, beginning 30 millennia before the birth of Christ. Of climatic shifts from moist to arid to moist, with consequent migrations eddying back and forth across, and up and down the Middle East. And of myriad peoples. There were hunter-gatherers whom agriculturists displaced. There were prehistoric Ubaidians who built cities, Sumerians who invented writing and the Assyrians who absorbed Sumer's writing as well as its legend of a luxuriantly lovely land, an Eden called Dilmun. Finally there were Kashshites in Mesopotamia, contemporaries of the Israelites then forming the state of Israel.

An endless search for food

There are two crucial if approximate dates in reconstruction. The first is about 30,000 B.C., with the transition from Neanderthal to modern Man. This, some anthropologists believe, took place along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean and Aegean seas and in Iraq. At that time the Great Ice Age still held most of Eurasia in its grip, and it caused the sea levels to fall by 400 feet so that what is now the Persian Gulf was dry land, all the way to the Strait of Hormuz. It was irrigated not only by the still-existing Tigris and Euphrates but also by the Gihon, the Pison and their tributaries from the Arabian peninsula and from Iran. It seems reasonable that technologically primitive but modern Man, in his endless search for food, would have located the considerable natural paradise that presented itself in the area where the Gulf now lies.

But Eden wasn't born then. That came, Zarins believes, about 6000 B.C. In between 30,000 and 6000 B.C., the climate varied. From 15,000 B.C., rainfall diminished drastically. Faced with increasing aridity, the Paleolithic population retreated, some as far as the area known to us as the “Fertile Crescent” (north along the Tigris and Euphrates, westward toward the moist Mediterranean coast, south to the Nile), and also eastward to the Indus River valley. Others, perhaps wearied by the long trek, made do with the more austere conditions of central Arabia and continued foraging as best they could.

Then, at about 6000 to 5000 B.C., following a long arid stretch, came a period called the Neolithic Wet Phase when rains returned to the Gulf region. The reaches of eastern and northeastern Saudi Arabia and southwestern Iran became green and fertile again. Foraging populations came back to where the four rivers now ran full, and there was rainfall on the intervening plains. Animal bones indicate that in this period Arabia had abundant game. Thousands of stone tools suggest intensive, if seasonal, human occupation around now dry lakes and rivers. These tools are found even in the Rub al-Khali or Empty Quarter of Saudi Arabia. And so about 6000 to 5000 B.C. the land was again a paradise on Earth, provided by a bountiful nature—God—and admirably suited to the foraging life.

This time, however, there was a difference: agriculture had been invented. Not overnight—“It was a very gradual process, not an event,” Zarins emphasizes. It grew up along the Mediterranean coast and in today's Iran and Iraq as groups of hunter-gatherers evolved into agriculturists. Foragers from central Arabia, returning to the southern Mesopotamian plain, found it already resettled by these agriculturists. Because the process occurred before writing was invented, there is no record of what upheavals the evolution caused, what tortured questions about traditional values and life-styles, what dislocations of clans or tribes. Zarins posits that it must have been far more dramatic than the infinitely later Industrial Revolution, and an earthquake in comparison with today's computer-age discombobulation of persons, professions and systems.

“What would happen to a forager when his neighbors changed their ways or when he found agriculturists had moved into his territory?” Zarins asks. “These agriculturists were innovative folk who had settled down, planted seeds, domesticated and manipulated animals. They made the food come to them, in effect, instead of chasing it over hill and dale. What would the forager do if he couldn't cope? He could die; he could move on; he could join the agriculturists. But whatever happened, he would resent it.”

Eden, Adam, and the birth of writing

The crunch came, Zarins believes, here in the Tigris and Euphrates valleys and in northern Arabia, where the hunter-gatherers, flooding in from less hospitable regions, were faced with more technically accomplished humans who knew how to breed and raise animals, who made distinctive pottery, who seemed inclined to cluster in settled groups. Who were these people? Zarins believes they were a southern Mesopotamian group and culture now called the Ubaid. They founded the oldest of the southern Mesopotamian cities, Eridu, about 5000 B.C. Though Eridu, and other cities like Ur and Uruk, were discovered a century ago, the Ubaidian presence down along the coast of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia has been known for little more than a decade, when vestiges of their settlements, graves and distinctive pottery turned up.

It was in Saudi Arabia that Zarins encountered the Ubaidians, and there that he began developing his hypothesis about the true meaning of the Biblical Eden. One clue lies in linguistics: the term Eden, or Edin, appears first in Sumer, the Mesopotamian region that produced the world's first written language. This was in the third millennium B.C., more than three thousand years after the rise of the Ubaid culture. In Sumerian the word “Eden” meant simply “fertile plain.” The word “Adam” also existed in cuneiform, meaning something like “settlement on the plain.” Although both words were set down first in Sumerian, along with place names like Ur and Uruk, they are not Sumerian in origin. They are older. A brilliant Assyriologist named Benno Landsberger advanced the theory in 1943 that these names were all linguistic remnants of a pre-Sumerian people who had already named rivers, cities—and even some specific trades like potter and coppersmith—before the Sumerians appeared.

Landsberger called the pre-Sumerian language simply Proto-Euphratian. Other scholars suggest that its speakers were the Ubaidians. However it was, the existing names were incorporated into Sumerian and written down for the first time. And the mythology of the lush and lovely spot called Eden was codified by being written.

“The whole Garden of Eden story, however, when finally written, could be seen to represent the point of view of the hunter gatherers,” Zarins reasons. “It was the result of tension between the two groups, the collision of two ways of life. Adam and Eve were heirs to natural bounty. They had everything they needed. But they sinned and were expelled. How did they sin? By challenging God's very omnipotence. In so doing they represented the agriculturists, the upstarts who insisted on taking matters into their own hands, relying upon their knowledge and their own skills rather than on His bounty. There were no journalists around to record the tension, no historians. But the event did not go unnoticed. It became a part of collective memory and at long last it was written down, highly condensed, in Genesis. It was very brief, but brevity doesn't mean lack of significance.”

How did it happen that an advanced people would perpetuate a myth making their own ancestors the sinners? It may be that the Ubaidians, who are known to have sailed down the east coast of Arabia and colonized there, ran into descendants of foragers displaced from a drowning Eden, from them heard the awful story of the loss of paradise and repeated it until it became their own legend. Or it may be that, responding to the increasing pressures and stresses of a society growing in complexity, they found comfort in a fantasy of the good old days, when life had been sweeter, simpler, more idyllic. However, it was a tale firmly established in Ubaidian mythology, then adopted and recorded by the Sumerians.

The name Eve does not appear in Sumerian but there is a most intriguing link---the account of Eve's having been fashioned from Adam's rib in the Garden story. Why a rib? Well, in a famous Sumerian poem translated and analyzed by scholar Samuel Noah Kramer, there is an account of how Enki the water god angered the Mother Goddess Ninhursag by eating eight magical plants that she had created. The Mother Goddess put the curse of death on Enki and disappeared, presumably so she couldn't change her mind and relent. Later, however, when Enki became very ill and eight of his “organs” failed, Ninhursag was enticed back. She summoned eight healing deities, one for each ailing organ. Now the Sumerian word for “rib” is “ti.,” but the same word also means “to make live.” So the healing deity who worked on Enki's rib was called “Nin-ti” and, in a nice play on words, became both the “lady of the rib” and the “lady who makes live.” This Sumerian pun didn't translate into Hebrew, in which the words for “rib” and “to make live” are quite different. But the rib itself went into the Biblical account and as “Eve” came to symbolize the “mother of all living.”

This and other ties with Sumerian myth are very clear, and Zarins finds it telling that although the Hebrews had close associations with Egypt, their earliest spiritual roots were in Mesopotamia. “Abraham journeyed to Egypt, Joseph journeyed to Egypt, the whole Exodus story is concerned with Egypt, but there is nothing whatever Egyptian about the early chapters of Genesis,” he points out. “All these early accounts are linked to Mesopotamia. Abraham indeed is said to have come from Ur, at the time near the Gulf, and the writers of Genesis wanted to link up with that history. So they drew from the literary sources of the greatest civilization that had existed, and that was in Mesopotamia. In so doing they turned Eden into the Garden, Adam into a man, and a compacted history of things that occurred millennia before was pressed into a few chapters.”

Long before Genesis was written, Zarins believes, the physical Eden had vanished under the waters of the Gulf. Man had lived happily there. But then, about 5000 to 4000 B.C. came a worldwide phenomenon called the Flandrian Transgression, which caused a sudden rise in sea level. The Gulf began to fill with water and actually reached its modern-day level about 4000 B.C., having swallowed Eden and all the settlements along the coastline of the Gulf. But it didn't stop there. It kept right on rising, moving upward into the southern legions of today's Iraq and Iran.
“The Sumerians always claimed that their ancestors came 'out of the sea,' and I believe they literally did,” says Zarins. “They retreated northward into Mesopotamia from the encroaching waters of the Gulf, where they had lived for thousands of years.”

Their original “Eden” was gone but a new one called Dilmun, on higher ground along the eastern coast of Arabia, enters the epics and the poems in the third millennium i.e. The by then ancient mythology of a land of plenty, of eternal life and peace, had lodged firmly in the collective mind and in a specific geographical area.

The scholarly world first heard about Dilmun a little more than a century ago, when scholars were able to decipher cuneiform tablets unearthed by archaeologist Austen Henry Layard in Nineveh. an Assyrian stronghold in today's Iraq. Its earliest mention was in economic texts referring to traffic in people and goods. On later tablets, to their astonishment. scholars began reading, in literature, not only about Eden and Adam and the “lady of the rib” but also about a Great Flood, a Sumerian hero called Gilgamesh and his search for the Tree of Life. There was even a serpent. Gilgamesh had gone “down” from Sumer to the Gulf area where he had been told he would find a plant that would give him eternal life. “What he found may have been coral, which in antiquity was a symbol of eternal life,” Zarins explains. “And after his labors he went to sleep and a serpent came along and stole his eternal life--his coral, maybe. Now it may not have been a serpent as we think of one, but instead one of those beautiful feathery creatures that Assyrians depicted in reliefs. But the descriptions of Dilmun are of an area that fits what I've been saying, where societies could exist at the will and bounty of God, in a beautiful setting.”

"Adamu” is the name in Sumerian mythology for the first man, created by “Enki”, the creator god and inventor of civilization. Adam is Hebrew for “man”, and adamah is a Hebrew word signifying dust and earth, and in Aramaic signifying blood. Havva — Hebrew for “Eve” — in Hebrew signifies life.

In the Sumerian myth, magical food is the source of immortality, not the source of its downfall, and Adamu is tricked to not eat it (the gods tell him it is poisonous), and thereby remains mortal. The Hebrew biblical account also describes such a life-giving magical food — the food of the “tree of life”, distinct from the forbidden “tree of knowledge of good and evil” — and it is chiefly to deprive them of the immortality bestowed by the fruit of the tree of life, that God exiles Adam and Eve from the garden. The tale of Cain and Abel (Genesis 4:1-16) parallels tales in Sumerian mythology of rivalries between farmer and herder gods.

Genesis 11:26-31 and 17:5-8 teach that Abraham himself, vaunted father of nations, is a native of the Sumerian city Ur (southeast Iraq, near the ancient mouths of the Tigris and Euphrates) under Chaldean suzerainty, growing up there some time in the second millenium BCE, and departing for Canaan (Israel and environs). Abraham's father Terah adhered to the Sumerian mythology, and was a maker and seller of idols, but Abraham rejected polytheism and his father's idols, and managed a remarkable escape from the Chaldean king's sentence of death for his heresy. Joshua 24:2 records the break: “And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods.” In any case, the similarity of the Torah's cosmogony to the Sumerian epic may be evidence that the biblical tales of Abraham are at least partially historical.

Monotheism was first consolidated in the nation of Judah by King Josiah (reigned ca. 641-609 BCE). But soon thereafter, the Chaldeans sacked Jerusalem and forced the Hebrews into exile in Babylon (597-538 BCE), under king Nebuchadrezzar II (605-562 BCE) and his successors. This captivity culminated in the syncretion of proto-Judaism with the Zoroastrianism of their Persian liberator, and the commitment of the Torah to writing. Zoroastrianism, founded ca. 750 BCE, is incidentally but one representative of the descendents of a common prehistoric Indo-European religion; among the other representative mythologies are Hindu, Norse, Greek, and Roman. Zoroastrianism contributes to the Eden myth the very word “paradise”, deriving from the Avestan (Old Persian) pairidaēza. This was the term used in Zoroastrian Persia to refer to the king's enclosed garden parks. The Hebrew in Genesis 2:8 for “garden of Eden” is gan-be'Eden — gan signifies not just a garden, but a walled garden, and Eden is not just a proper name, but a Hebrew term for “delight”. The garden motif even draws direct inspiration from Nebuchadrezzar II, who (according to legend) built “hanging gardens” in Babylon to please his homesick wife Amyitis, daughter of Median king Cyaxares (625-585 BCE). The Medes commanded a vast and verdant pre-Persian, partly Zoroastrian empire east of Chaldea, and the marriage cemented an alliance of the two empires. In fact the Old Persian pairidaēza is believed to have its root in the Mede language, which was in any case quite similar to Old Persian and the other Indo-Iranian languages of the region.

It seems inescapable that, to arrive at the creation mythology articulated by the postexilic authors of Genesis, the Hebrews conflated their ancestral Sumerian cosmogony and cultural inheritance, tales of the Zoroastrian king's idyllic garden in the east, and the Zoroastrian doctrine that the world created by Ahura Mazda was a paradise, spoiled by the evil Ahriman, but to be restored to its paradisiacal condition in the eschaton, as prophesied by Zoroaster. Before this syncretion, neither Satan nor the divine messiah (nor a great many other key doctrines) existed in the Judaic canon — all supernatural acts and promises were attributed directly to the covenant god Yahweh (or, before Josiah's monotheistic edicts, to any number of gods in a heterodox pantheon).

The Hebrews were surely inclined to sympathy with the Zoroastrian worldview, because it was the Zoroastrian king Cyrus the Great (reigned ca. 546 to 529 BCE), imperial uniter of the Medes and Persians, who delivered them from their Chaldean captivity, and instigated construction of the second Temple in Jerusalem. Isaiah 44:28-45:1 records a sympathy so great it smacks of open kinship: “That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid. Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him”. In 538 BCE, Cyrus commissioned the Judaic prince Sheshbazzar to lead the return to Jerusalem, and carry back the sacred vessels confiscated by the Chaldean empire at the start of the exile. As told in the first chapter of the Book of Ezra, the universal god of the Israelites and the universal god of Cyrus are the same god: “Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The LORD [“Yahweh”] God [“Elohim”] of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.” Under the patronage of the ardently Zoroastrian king Darius (reigned 521 to 485 BCE), Zorobabel (also transliterated Zerubbabel, as in the Book of Haggai) in ca. 520 BCE led another company of Babylonian Hebrews back to Jerusalem, assumed governorship of the city under royal dispensation, and completed the second Temple. Zorobabel is mentioned in Matthew 1:12-13 as a 29th generation lineal descendent of Abraham, and a tenth generation lineal ancestor of Joseph (husband of Mary, mother of Jesus of Nazareth), though this account is immediately suspect because it requires fifty year generations between Zorobabel and Joseph. In any case, in the immediate postexilic period, there is no clear boundary, either political or religious, between the Zoroastrian establishment and the tribes of Israel. It was during this period that the Torah was committed to writing. Moreover, the “wise men from the east” of Matthew 2:1, the pilgrims come to Israel to pay homage to the infant Jesus, are in fact emissaries of the Zoroastrian court of Persia (magi), come to honor the child they believe is the Zoroastrian messiah. Regardless of the historicity, this account continues the biblical pattern that considers messianic Judaism and Zoroastrianism to be the same religion. While it might be coincidental, the Star of David, now the centerpiece of the national flag of Israel, was an important symbol in Zoroastrian astrology.

At its mythological root paradise was almost certainly believed to be in the celestial heavens, coming to prehistoric earth only through narrative modification. The words for heaven and for paradise are the same in a great many euroasiatic languages, including the Indo-European languages, Hebrew, and Korean.

As Islamic scholars understand it, the Qur'an places Eden itself in heaven, so that it can only be reached through death (particularly, by martyrdom). Correspondingly, Islamic doctrine holds that the forbidden fruit of Eden was in fact ineffectual, and it was the devil who tempted a mortal Adam to eat it, telling him falsely that it would give him immortality, whereas his betrayal of god simply led god to eject him from paradise.

Thus there are three principal permutations of the myth. In the first, the Sumerian version, a mortal Adam is in an earthly Eden, and a life-giving fruit is not eaten, due to divine trickery. In the Judeo-Christian version, an immortal Adam is in an earthly Eden with two fruit trees, one giving the immortal life of a god, the other a forbidden one giving the vision of a god, eaten at the instigation of a diabolical serpent (divine trickery). In the Islamic version, a mortal Adam is in an ethereal Eden, and a false fruit is eaten at the instigation of the devil. The confusion of earthly and heavenly paradise recurs within and between the extant religious canons (including the Indic canons), facilitating acceptance of the Edenic movement's promise of earthly paradise. For example, in America, some radicalized Muslims are explicit Edenists (this is the Taliyah movement, broached below in the Keeping Eden Green chapter). Though for utopians frank introspection and circumspection is generally alien, they stand to learn a great deal about their movement from an appreciation that in most of the world, for most of history, paradise has been associated with death, and in particular, with the end of life. 

 

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Some Link About Garden of Eden

Garden of Eden - New World Encyclopedia
The Garden of Eden (from Hebrew Gan Eden) is described by the Book of Genesis as Some scholars locate it in the Persian Gulf; others seek a location in
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Garden_of_Eden

The First River of Eden!
Whatever the case, it is quite clear that the Garden of Eden was located around the northern end of the Persian Gulf. Remarkably, this is exactly where
http://www.hope-of-israel.org/riveden.htm

East of the Garden of Eden - Mysteries of the Bible - Unexplained
During the 1991 Persian Gulf War, the Iraqi military targeted these oil Indeed, legend records that the Garden of Eden now lies `at the
http://unexplainedmysteries.yuku.com/topic/663

Returning to Eden - Ancient Roots
The area thought to be the Garden of Eden, which was flooded when Gulf that the Garden of Eden lies presently under the waters of the Persian Gulf,
http://www.mega.nu/ampp/eden/roots.html

Locating The Garden Of Eden: Evolution and History in The Urantia Book
The first clue to the location of the Garden is that it was "a long narrow of Dalmatia exist under the waters of the Persian Gulf, and the first Eden
http://www.truthbook.com/index.cfm?linkID=95

Eden: Definition from Answers.com
Eden n. Bible . The garden of God and the first home of Adam and Eve. Havillah is thought to have been the Arabian shore of the Persian Gulf.
http://www.answers.com/topic/eden

Out of Africa or Out of Eden: Does Science Contradict the Bible?
15 Feb 2009 Although it is possible that the garden of Eden was in Africa, it would have to Therefore, Mesopotamia or the Persian Gulf matches the
http://www.godandscience.org/apologetics/humans_out_of_africa.html

Garden of Eden - Geography
For the concept in cellular automata, see Garden of Eden pattern. genuine Bronze Age entrepot of the island Dilmun (now Bahrain) in the Persian Gulf,
http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/garden-of-eden/geography.html

Where Was The Garden Of Eden Located?
The Garden of Eden is the name of the place where Adam and Eve lived before those with the belief that Eden was near ancient Eridu, on the Persian Gulf.
http://m.sooperarticles.com/spirituality-articles/religion-articles/where-garden-eden-located-17519.html

The Garden of Eden - The Bible and Interpretation
Most scholars who have written recently about the Garden of Eden, however, usually place it in or around ancient Mesopotamia—anywhere from the Persian Gulf
http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/eden357918.shtml

myLot - Archaeological Proof of The Garden of Eden
Location of the Garden of Eden. It was on the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, In ancient inscriptions the Persian Gulf was called a "river." God Bless.
http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/824207.aspx

IBSS - Biblical Archaeology - Garden of Eden
See Has the Garden of Eden been located at last? for photos and details. Dilum was probably the island Bahrain in the Persian gulf.
http://www.bibleandscience.com/archaeology/eden.htm

Paper 73 - The Garden of Eden | Urantia Book
immediate vicinity of their original home near the headwaters of the Persian Gulf. (825.4) 73:5.7 And so was the Garden of Eden made ready for the
http://www.urantia.org/en/urantia-book-standardized/paper-73-garden-eden

JewishEncyclopedia.com - EDEN, GARDEN OF
This is supposed to have been in the Persian Gulf or Nar Marratim ("stream of Though there is no one Babylonian legend of the Garden of Eden with which
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=39&letter=E

Whatever Happened to The Garden of Eden ?Whatever Happened
Persian Gulf — exactly where Zarins had located the. Garden of Eden." -"How to Find a River — No Divining Rod Needed," Biblical Archaeology Review
http://scienceandthebible.xanga.com/452982048/item/

Where is the garden of eden now? who do think lives there? is it a
18 Feb 2010 But the most likely explanation I've heard for the garden of Eden was that it was located at the northwest end of the Persian Gulf until the
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100218180713AAw5RiF

Garden of Eden, Eve
A discussion on the Garden of Eden. A source of information for deeper understanding This is supposed to have been in the Persian Gulf or Nar Marratim
http://mb-soft.com/believe/txh/eden.htm

The Garden of Eden
These rivers locate the Garden of Eden as on a modern landscape at the head of the Persian Gulf-- but not the present-day head of the Persian Gulf.
http://www.asa3.org/asa/pscf/2000/pscf3-00hill.html

Garden of Eden - Crystalinks
The Garden of Eden described in the Book of Genesis as being the place where for the garden: The first was an island in the Persian Gulf; the second,
http://www.crystalinks.com/gardenofeden.html

WHERE IS THE GARDEN OF EDEN?
But where is the Garden of Eden actually located? While some may speculate that it was somewhere in present-day Iraq, near the Persian Gulf, others believe
http://www.propheticrevelation.net/questions/garden_of_eden.htm

An American Garden of Eden | Mormonism Research Ministry
An American Garden of Eden. By Bill McKeever. The passage of time has that the one that locates Eden near the head of the Persian Gulf combines the
http://mrm.org/eden

Garden of Eden, Dilmun, Bahrain - Finally been located?
5 Mar 2009 The Garden of Eden is a location described in the Book of Genesis as being Dilum was probably the island Bahrain in the Persian gulf.
http://www.travelexplorations.com/garden-of-eden-dilmun-bahrain-finally-been-located.4563785-17545.html

Has the Garden of Eden been found?
More recently, some scholars have claimed that the Garden of Eden was situated at the head of the Persian Gulf, where the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers run
http://creation.com/has-the-garden-of-eden-been-found

Garden of Eden Location « Lettersfromitia's Blog
14 Mar 2010 To modern science, the Garden of Eden is about 140 meters below the current sea level just beyond the Persian Gulf. The bible says, “Now a
http://lettersfromitia.wordpress.com/2010/03/14/location-of-the-garden-of-eden/

The Garden of Eden Persian Gulf Bahrain Iran Jerusalem We've got
"The Garden of Eden" by Lucas Cranach der Ältere , a 16th century German depiction of Eden. I came upon a child of god He was walking along the road And I
http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-25600-World-History-Examiner~y2009m10d14-The-Garden-of-Eden-Persian-Gulf-Bahrain-Iran-Jerusalem-Weve-got-to-get-back-to-the-garden-YouTube

1st Garden of Eden according to Ezekiel 47
the region of the second garden by The Euphrates and then to the sea of the Persian Gulf. Additional Scriptures including the first Garden of Eden.
http://sevenfoldtruth.com/eden/eden_from_ezekiel.htm

Where Was The Garden of Eden? - Jon Christian Ryter's Conservative
Landsberger, like Zarins, believe that seismic events over the ages caused the formation of the Persian Gulf. As the land mass split, the Garden of Eden was
http://www.jonchristianryter.com/2004/070704.html

Has the Garden of Eden been located at last?
14 Aug 2007 The area thought to be the Garden of Eden, which was flooded when Garden of Eden lies presently under the waters of the Persian Gulf,
http://ldolphin.org/eden/

Iraq's Garden of Eden: Restoring the Paradise that Saddam
30 Jul 2010 come together again near Basra and flow into the Persian Gulf. Turning the Garden of Eden into Hell The military was sent in to excavate canals and build dikes to conduct the water directly into the Gulf.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,709180,00.html

Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Garden of Eden
Some Biblical scholars have placed the Garden of Eden in what is now the Persian Gulf, see http://www.ldolphin.org/eden/. Others have suggested a location
http://encyclopedia.kids.net.au/page/ga/Garden_of_Eden

The Biblical Garden of Eden
The Biblical Garden of Eden had four rivers which spread forth from it. If the Garden was in the Persian Gulf area of southern Iran/Kuwait, then there would
http://www.israel-a-history-of.com/biblical-garden-of-eden.html

Garden of Eden - Conservapedia
20 Feb 2010 The Earthly Paradise (Garden of Eden), painted by Hieronymus Bosch Of these the first place it near the head of the Persian Gulf where
http://www.conservapedia.com/Garden_of_Eden

The Garden of Eden
Many scholars have tried to locate the Garden of Eden and have failed. and this river empties and pours its waters into the sea Miot (Persian Gulf),
http://www.logoschristian.org/eden.html

The Garden of Eden - Unexplained Mysteries Discussion Forums
Dr. Juris Zareins, says that the garden is in the Persian Gulf. As was stated in the post before mine, the Garden of Eden,
http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=98321

Garden of Eden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"The Garden of Eden" by Lucas Cranach der Ältere, a 16th century German Havillah is thought to have been the Arabian shore of the Persian Gulf.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_of_Eden

In Search of Eden
By D Laing
The other camp places Eden at the head of the Persian gulf and at the other end of [1] Dora Jane Hamblin; "Has the Garden of Eden been located at last?
http://www.biblemysteries.com/library/edens.htm

The Garden of Eden
This is the first mention of the garden of Eden in the Book of Genesis. The “land of Havilah” is thought to be situated on the Persian Gulf,
http://library.thinkquest.org/C0125521/_eden.htm

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