Poll of the Day > Let's find the Garden of Eden!

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This is assuming that the totally fake story was based on a real location - let's give this the Ponce de Leon treatment and search in good faith.

The clues we have are that it's somewhere along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, and that it's a location that the people there were unable to return to.

This makes me suspect it was Bubiyan Island in the Persian gulf.

The other clue is that the people there were expelled by God, which was a volcano god at the time... so I'm looking for Persian Gulf islands that were rocked by a volcano somewhere around 13'000 BC, but getting historical volcano information is hard - it's not on Google Maps, which thinks all Volcanos are restaurants.

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Won't you take my haaaaaaand?

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either between the tigris/euphrates or africa's great rift valley depending on who you listen to but given the subsequent happenings in the old testament it's more likely the former.

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Sure right after we find Noah's Ark!

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The story is real and happens everyday.

The concept of a garden paradise stems from Persian sources - the word "paradise" itself comes from the original Persian word for "walled garden".

The idea being that in the original Persian lands, the terrain was mostly arid and rocky, and that gardens established by rich nobility would stand out as a welcome respite from the harsher reality. This in turn worked itself into the Persian worldview and cosmology via Zoroastrianism, which then influenced Hebrew thinking during the Babylonian Captivity period, when Jews would have mixed with Persians in Babylon (and then later as well, once Cyrus conquered Babylon and Judah/Israel become Persian provinces for a time). Zoroastrianism was a huge influence on early Judaism, with many elements in the early Torah/Old Testament having parallels in the Persian Avesta.

If you're looking for a legitimate Garden of Eden, you'd theoretically be looking in Iran. And you wouldn't find it because gardens don't last for thousands of years without maintenance, magical or otherwise.
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

If you're looking for a legitimate Garden of Eden, you'd theoretically be looking in Iran. And you wouldn't find it because gardens don't last for thousands of years without maintenance, magical or otherwise.

Righto - I just mean giving it a fair search, like Ponce de Leon

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Could it just be gone or whatever... Or like super hidden?

ParanoidObsessive posted...

And you wouldn't find it because gardens don't last for thousands of years without maintenance, magical or otherwise.

I mean, if it was magical, itd probably be fine... Though, I dont really think it was or anything.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ADu3tHanP8

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My backyard.
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https://youtu.be/qSCUhqsy4Nk

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