And the names of the four rivers _ Hidekel (Tigris), Phrath (Euphrates) , Gihon and Pishon.I'll better quote the Bible verses.
10A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and there it divided and became four rivers. 11The name of the first is the Pishon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of( Havilah, where there is gold. 12And the gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stone are there. 13The name of the second river is the Gihon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Cush. 14And the name of the third river is the Tigris, which flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
I searched in the map, yes Euphrates and Tigris are there. And where exactly were this Gihon and Pishon flowing? And where is Havilla that land of gold, bdellium and onyx stones? And Cush?Well, I'll stop here and am going to search for these rivers like the Lama who wandered with his little chela in search of the sacred river in Kipling's 'Kim'. Well , I'll be back after a few days. Till then I''m gonna search, yeah wander in the google land and in my little library here in this little room of mine, to search and fish out a little knowledge about Mesopotamia and the archeological city of Petra. And of course I'll study some theories concerning Pishon as Ganges and Nile etc, and Gihon as River Araxes in Armania.Good exercise for my brain, I hope. This may keep the spirit of Alzheimer out. God bless.
Here are two great sites that gives interesting details about the fertile crescent, mesopotamia, the fertile land between two rivers - Tigris and Euphrates. Awesome!
ReplyDeletehttp://hubpages.com/hub/The-Fertile-Crescent-Mesopotamia
http://www.crystalinks.com/mesopotamia.html
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ReplyDeleteu've become a Bible scholar.
what's pummalose?
will be sending your site to a few people