gobekli tepe - genesis of the gods by collins andrew

Author:collins, andrew [collins, andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Ancient Mysteries
ISBN: 9781591438359
Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Published: 2014-05-01T00:00:00+00:00

THE HIDDEKEL

Another river of Paradise easy to identify is the Hiddekel, which flows to the “east of Asshur”; that is, Assyria, in what is today northern Iraq. This is unquestionably the River Tigris (from the Persian tigra, meaning “arrow”), originally called the Hiddekel (from the Akkadian id Idikla, “the river of Idikla”), which does indeed flow through the eastern parts of the ancient kingdom of Assyria. The river, which takes its rise northeast of the city of Diyarbakır, immediately south of the main sources of the Euphrates, is fed by a series of tributaries that rise in the Eastern Taurus Mountains of eastern Turkey.

The Tigris then leaves Turkey and flows southeastward through Iraq, parallel with the Euphrates on its western side. The two rivers bend toward each other in the vicinity of Baghdad, close to the site of the ancient city of Babylon. Yet instead of coming together they run parallel for a few miles before parting again, only to merge finally into one giant estuary that empties into the Persian Gulf.

So if both the Euphrates and the Tigris form two of the four rivers of Paradise, this should confirm that the Garden of Eden was either where they take their rise in the Eastern Taurus Mountains and Armenian Highlands or where they come together in southern Iraq; no other possible location should even be considered based on the evidence provided by the book of Genesis. Indeed, the matter can be pinned down still further by pointing out that the Garden of Eden was situated at the source of the four rivers, meaning that the terrestrial Paradise can only have been located in historical Armenia, modern eastern Turkey. Where exactly is provided by the identities of the remaining two rivers.

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