One of the most heavily edited books based on old Sumerian fables just happens to base itself around what was ancient Sumer.
Wow.
Comment on The Garden of Eden was based on The Galápagos Islands.
ivanafterall@kbin.social 6 months agoThis is a/the part of the Bible (Genesis 2) people reference to support that belief:
10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
11 The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
12 And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
13 And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
14 And the name of the third river is Hiddekel*: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.
15 And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
*Ostensibly Tigris
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Yeah, its 4 rivers, and to the best of my knowledge, biblical scholars have basically given up on trying to associate 4 rivers and the place names given with any actual real location.
Either its mythical, or some of the place names just do not linguistically connect with any of the historical record of actual locations.
Same with the 4 rivers. No conclusive evidence of dried up ancient river beds that actually fits.