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| In the East of Eden |
If we take geography as reference to support the pre-delude
stories it will be more confusing rather than shedding light to the mystery of
the story in itself the fact that the earth was and is in constant change and
its features is far different from what it looked like before and after the
flood. Besides, the names of the places used in the ancient times were so
different from their names we used today. Except of course when it comes to
directions that north is always in the north, and south is always in the south.
So, where to start first and foremost?
Many, if not most of writers, have missed Eden in their
descriptions of the Garden of Eden and only touched on to the garden itself.
Their interpretations mislead everyone away from the real picture, as described
by Moses in his Torah, thus limiting their views on it. Let us read, in Genesis
2:8-9, it says:
“Now, the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in
Eden; and there he put the man he had formed. And The Lord God made all kinds
of trees grow out of the ground - trees that were pleasing to the eye and good
for food.”
First and foremost, the Garden of Eden was just a portion or
a place east of Eden. And second, Eden was the First Earth or referred to its
mainland called Pangaea when the whole world wa not divided yet. By the way, gaea in pangaea meaning “all-land” in Greek, and pan or gan edhen in Hebrew means “garden of eden”). Again, let us read, “Now, the Lord God had planted a garden
in the east, in Eden.” Here, three important words are the clues: garden, east,
and Eden. The garden was planted in the east, in Eden. Let us continue, In
Genesis 2:10-11:
“A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; there it was
separated into four headwaters. The name of the first is Pishon, it winds
through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.”
Further down to Genesis 1:25, we can read that when God
closed the gate of the Garden of Eden he assigned cherubs with the fiery sword
to guard the gate, in the east, to prevent Adam and Eve from coming back.
The garden in the story of creation in the land called Eden
is no other than the lost paradise, the garden outside the City of Mu created by
the Muians for their new creations, the Maharlikans, Adam and Eve, the first humans, male and
female. Many believed it was in Mesopotamia as the biblical story mentioned of
the four riverheads, Tigris, Euphrates, Pishon and Gihon. Tigris and Euphrates
were identified as to this days being in Iraq (Mesopotamia) but Pishon
and Gihon were not. No evidences so far have been discovered to conclude that
Pishon and Gihon were also in Mesopotamia. It is not also clear how wide the
Garden of Eden was and how far its extent. The only evidences we can consult
were the remnants of the garden and the book bearing its records.
“A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; there it was
separated into four headwaters. The name of the first is Pishon, it winds
through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold. The gold at that land
is good; aromatic resin and onyx are also there. The name of the second river
is Gihon: it winds through the entire land of Cush. The name of the third river
is Tigris; it runs along the east side of Asshur. And the forth river is
Euphrates.” (Gen. 2: 10-14).
The land of Havilah is already forgotten in our times but
its gold being the treasure of the land must still be there as silent evidence
to its extra-ordinary past. But where is Havilah now? Where is its gold?
Coincidentally, the legendary King Solomon’s land of gold,
which often claimed as the main source of the famous king's gold as
depicted in the biblical story of the construction of the First Temple of King Solomon and in many stories told where he
obtained treasures by the ships, was located in the east, the location of
present-day Philippines Islands.
Not satisfied yet? How about some physical evidences?
When God vanished away the Garden of Eden from the face of
the Earth, He intelligently designed monuments in memory of the first humans He
created and put in the garden. These monuments are mountain-forms bearing the
features of a man (Adam) and a woman (Eve) perfectly lying down as if they are
sleeping, in a place once called the Garden of Eden. These mountain-forms are
called by the inhabitants there as the Lalaking Bukid (male mountain) and
Babaeng Bukid (female mountain). Both these mountains are located in the
Province of Dinagat Islands in the northern part of Mindanao, south-east of the
Philippines.
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| Adam's Monument, Dinagat Province |
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| Eve's Monument, Dinagat Province |
And since this article is about the Garden of Eden itself, this said Garden must be a real garden in a way that landscaping and cultivation as its features must be obviously distinct to be called as such. The Banaue Rice Terraces in the Mt. Province is considered to be the one of the world’s largest man-made wonders, a landscape, hence a garden. The soil taken from it was dumped in now the so-called Chocolate Hills in Bohol because the entire Philippine Islands was once the Garden of Eden.
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| Rice Terraces of Ifugao, Mt. Province |
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| Chocolate Hills, Bohol |
