Garden of Eden

Paradise, original home of Adam and Eve before their fall

The Garden of Eden (from Hebrew גַּן עֵדֶן ) is described in the Book of Genesis as being the place where the first man, Adam, and the first woman, Eve, lived after they were created by God. The past physical existence of this garden forms part of the creation belief of the Abrahamic religions.The creation story in Genesis relates the geographical location of both Eden and the garden to four major rivers (Pishon, Gihon, Tigris, Euphrates), as well as a number of named regions (Armenia, Ararat, Yerevan or Armenian Highlands) (see Genesis 2:10-14). This seems to suggest a setting in the ancient Caucasus, specifically somewhere in or near Armenia. However, the location of these rivers remains the subject of much controversy and speculation. There is no other indication of the rivers' existence beyond the record found in Genesis and other early Judaeo-Christian literature, such as Jubilees.
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Noun
1. a beautiful garden where Adam and Eve were placed at the Creation; when they disobeyed and ate the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil they were driven from their paradise (the fall of man)
(synonym) Eden
(hypernym) Heaven

[Judaic] The place created by God as the abode for the first human beings. According to Genesis 2, the garden was full of beautiful plants which were good to eat, but Adam and Eve were expelled for disobeying God's command. In rabbinical literature the Garden of Eden (Hebrew: Gan Eden) is the paradise where the righteous live after their deaths.

Eden 'eden or gan-'eden the garden of Eden (Hebrew) [from 'eden delight, pleasure, loveliness] The country in which the garden of Adam and Eve was situated according to the Bible. Not wholly a mythical name, for Eden "is an archaic name of the country watered by the Euphrates and its many branches, from Asia and Armenia to the Erythraean Sea" (SD 2:202). Hebraists hold that the site of Eden would be the cradle of the human race. See also GAN-EDEN ; PARADISE 

Gan-Eden gan `eden (Hebrew) [from gan garden, park + eden] Sometimes Gan-Aeden, Gandunia. The garden of Eden; in the Assyrian tablets it is rendered gan-dunyas or gan-dunu, which is also a name of Babylonia. See also EDEN ; PARADISE 

Paradise [from Greek paradeisos from Old Persian pairidaeza from Sanskrit paradesa region beyond] Applied in Persian and Greek to a pleasure park or royal domain. A Hebrew version (pardes) is found in the Bible, translated "orchard" (Eccl 2:5, Cant 4:3) and "forest" (Neh 2:8). An equivalent is the Hebrew eden (delight). Stories of a Paradise or Eden are universal; and while the general idea is simple, its applications are complex. It is the state of innocence and bliss from which there is departure, and to which there is eventual return. This may apply to the human race as a whole, to particular races, to the lands they inhabit, or to the pilgrimage of the individual human soul.
Persian tradition places a Garden of Delight far to the north of Caucasus in the Arctic regions, where was the Imperishable Sacred Land whence issued a stream from the earth's fount of life. Adi-varsha was the Eden of the first races and specifically of the primeval third root-race; the Eden of the fifth root-race is but its faint reminiscence. The Garden of Eden or of God (Ezek 31:3-9) was a home of initiates of Atlantis, now submerged.
The Eden in Genesis is a marvelous fusion of many meanings into one narrative, where the Adams of the various root-races are made into one. Eden was an ancient name for Mesopotamia and adjacent regions; and under that one name are comprised the meanings of an abode of initiates, a sacred land from which races emerged, and a goal of bliss in the future.
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