The real place of the Garden of Eden?

11. 03. 2019
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What is or was the real location of Eden Garden of Eden? It was a paradise among all paradise, the home of the first people Adam and Eve, who needed nothing until the serpent came and fell into disfavor. The Garden of Eden is mentioned in the Bible in the book of Genesis and is the basis of the Christian and Jewish faiths.

Will we ever find a real place in the Garden of Eden? The garden was full of life, full of beasts of fruit, grace and contentment, but somehow that paradise disappeared in time, if you believe in its existence. One strange tree grew in the garden - tree of knowledgewhich was banned as a tree of temptation. However, the serpent gave Eve the fruit of this tree, which she shared with Adam, and with this original sin we all lost the opportunity to live in the Garden of Paradise.

Was this garden at all?

But did this garden ever exist? Is the story of this garden so alive because it really lay somewhere? And if so, where was it? Well, let's try to look at possible real places and compare them to speculation about a biblical paradise. While scholars consider the Garden of Eden to be purely mythology, others wonder if there was a Garden of Eden at all. People who believe that the Bible Garden existed presuppose its location primarily in an idyllic location in the Middle East. In the book of Genesis, according to the instructions of Moses, the Garden of Eden would lie somewhere between Egypt and the western part of the Middle East. However, some instructions for finding a paradise garden are lost in translation. One interpretation says that it lies to the east of paradise, which is not very authoritative, because no one knows where paradise lay.

Another translation states that paradise was in the east, meaning the Garden of Paradise, or apparently meaning the place of Moses' dream, and is located in the east of Egypt. But perhaps this also means the far west of the Middle East (provided, of course, that the sides of the world on the compass are perceived today as they were in Moses' day).

We have names of 4 rivers

However, we have the names of four rivers and their physical description that could help locate the Garden of Eden. Genesis states that the river flowed from Paradise and flowed through the Garden of Eden and then divided into four rivers - Pishon, Gihon, Tigris Euphrates. If the Bible is right, these rivers have dramatically changed their course since Genesis was written. The truth is that rivers change their course over the ages. Unfortunately, there are currently only two rivers that could help in the search for a garden of paradise. While the Euphrates of the Tigris are well known contemporary rivers, the Pishon and Gihon have either dried up or have been renamed, so their location - if they ever were - is mere speculation. Genesis says that the river Pishon flowed through the land of Havilah, while Gihon flowed through the land of Cush.

There are several rivers or dry rivers that could be named streams, but basically do not match the description in the Bible. However, Euphrates and Tigris have the same names, and they are primarily flowing through Iraq. But in no case do they run out of the same source and disagree with their description of the Bible. They also do not cross other rivers. Of course, the flow of these rivers could have undergone a radical transformation against the Biblical period, because as it is known, the flood of the world has completely changed his face. The most accurate hypothesis about the position of the Garden of Eden, based on literature and religion, is today's Iraq. Of course, there is a possibility that the Garden of Eden is related to the reputation of the dried gardens in Babylon. However, their existence is not 100% confirmed. According to the legend, King Nebuchadnezzar II built for his wife, Amytis, who longed for the greenery and mountains of his native country Media, located in the northwest of today's Iraq.

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The magnificent gardens were counted to the seven wonders of the world. They were built as high stone terraces to resemble the mountains. The greenery was cultivated with high aesthetic quality, water that irrigated the terraces, flowed from top to bottom and resembled waterfalls. Keeping such a garden in a hot climate meant creating a powerful irrigation system. Euphrates water is believed to have been transported to gardens through pump systems, water wheels, and huge water bolts.

However, there is a chance that this is an archaeological cocktail of facts, and that the Garden of Eden was about 300 miles north of Babylon (about 50 miles southwest of today's Baghdad) at Nineveh (today's town of Mosul). Nineveh was the capital of the Assyrian Empire, the rival of Babylon. Then it would have been that they were created during the rule of the Assyrian ruler, Sennacherib (and not Nebuchadnezzar II), roughly in the seventh century BC, that is, a hundred years before the scientists originally assumed it. The archaeological probes surrounding Nineveh revealed evidence of a large water-supply system that transported water from the mountains, with inscriptions referring to King Sennacherib as a builder of waterways redirected to Nineveh. In addition, Basrelief at the palace in Nineve shows a beautiful and plentiful garden with aqueduct water.

Conditions in Nineveh

The location of the dried gardens towards Nineve makes sense even with regard to geographic conditions. Unlike the flat landscapes around Babylon, where transport of water to the top of gardens would be very complicated for an ancient civilization, it would be much easier in Nineveh. These local conditions may explain why there is no mention of gardens in all the Babylonian texts, and why archaeologists have gone idly in search of the remains of gardens in a place where only pieces of news have been heard. It is also possible that the confusion about the location of the gardens occurred during the time when Ninive underwent Babylon and the capital of Nineveh was nicknamed New Babylon.

Perhaps there are stories about two idyllic places like Eden and the Garden of Eden without any real foundation. Maybe it belongs to mythology, just like the legend of Atlantis, Buddha's Nirvana, or simply to the category of utopian desires and stories that take their breath. If you fully identify with Jewish or Christian faith, then yes, there is a chance to eventually get to Paradise gardens in heaven, if God's mercy rests upon you, the inevitability of the end of the earthly life. Or just keep your curiosity and curiosity, your eyes and head open to information, the hints that link to revealing the possible existence of the Garden of Eden, whether lying anywhere in the world. Perhaps one day archeologists will come across evidence of the existence of the Garden of Eden, not in the exact utopian description of the Genesis book, but as a paradise for people trying to enforce their everyday work. Until then, the world simply enjoys having at least some male mysteries.

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