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BelaynehKassaWubie | June 18, 2010 at 03:31 am
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Many scholars and religious individuals raise scholarly issue questioning where the Biblical Eden, the Garden and the first river Pishon are found and the research output of most of these scholars conclude as they are around the Middle East. But all conclusions seem biased by the fact that Moses, the writer of the Genesis, is a Jewish and knows more about the Middle East. Most of the scholars fail to mention the fact that Moses had come to Ethiopia and even married an Ethiopian.
To me, locating the Biblical Eden, the Garden and the river Pishon is not something that requires scholarly research than tracing them from the Bible itself. It is because the Bible clearly indicates where these places are. They are in Ethiopia! Let me substantiate my argument by extracting and logically reducing facts from the Bible based on the reduction theory.
The Holy Bible clearly tells us that Gihon (White Nile) goes around the whole land of Cush, or Ethiopia (Genesis 2:13). On this point many scholars agree. Cush in Hebrew, Ethiopia in Greek and Sudan in Arabic mean the same, burned face, and this is a fact that these burned face people live in this region of the Globe, the land of Cush. Note that all East African countries, with exception of Egypt, through which the river Gihon goes was identified as the Biblical Ethiopia (Cush). The Bible also tells us that Noah begot Ham, Ham begot Cush and Cush begot Havilah (Genesis 10: 1-7) and the land of Havilah is in Ethiopia identified today as Godjam, the land skirted by the river Pishon (Genesis 2:11-12) or the Blue Nile, the first of the four river of Eden. No land like Godjam in Ethiopia is skirted by such big river in the world!
If, according to the Bible, we identify Gihon as the land of Cush or Ethiopia or Sudan, and that Havilah whose land is skirted by the river Pishon is the son of Cush, then Havilah and Pishon cannot be somewhere in the Middle East. Cush cannot send his son Havilah to Middle East from Africa than providing a part from his land, Ethiopia. From this, it is clear to understand that Pishon and Gihon, the first and second rivers of Eden, are in East Africa biblically known as Ethiopia and those of the third and fourth rivers of Eden in the Middle East.
If we agree on this, then where are the Eden and the Garden? It is again clearly stated in the Bible that a river went out of Eden to water the Garden (Genesis 2:10) although the Bible does not indicate which river waters the Garden after the division of the river into four riverheads; but which river is assumed to water the Garden? It should be the first river, Pishon, because the land of Havilah (known today as Godjam) is watered and moisturized by the river Pishon (Blue Nile) throughout the year still today. Therefore, the Eden, the Garden and the river Pishon are found in Ethiopia!
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at 03:41 on August 17th, 2010
The area and riveres in question , should priority wise be fierst the mountains of Turus in Turkey, because out of teh four named teh Euphrates and tigris flow from this source,, there is one which proceeds to Syria and one which goes towards gergia...that makes for the 4 rivers....Second choice goes to Kashmir , where the river Oxus , Indus , Jhelum and Chenaab derive their source..and the referenc eto Granite and Gold around the area from which the river source flows....than the area around chitral/Kashmir fallls perfectly in placeMy last choice would be Ethopia...The white and blue nile makes sense ...but how didithe tigris and euphrates start flowing upstream ..after crossing teh sea barrier...??Rgds