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Nah the garden of eden comes from an extinction event where almost all humans were wiped out. The only survivors were trapped in a small piece of fertile land a

Nah the garden of eden comes from an extinction event where almost all humans were wiped out. The only survivors were trapped in a small piece of fertile land at the equator and everything else was solid ice. It would be easy to see that garden as a gift from god after you’ve seen everyone else freeze to death. Then you just need a reason to leave e.g overhunting or overpopulation or some dispute. Then the myth would be that someone living there did something and our group had to leave paradise and go into the thawing wasteland. Pass that on for generation after generation and it becomes metaphorical.

canadianfella 4y ago
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photochemsyn 4y ago
I'd guess the 'Garden of Eden' as referenced in the Abrahamic religious traditions might have been in today's Sahara: > "Paleoclimate and archaeological evidence tells us that, 11,000-5,000 years ago, the Earth's slow orbital 'wobble' transformed today's Sahara desert to a land covered with vegetation and lakes." https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/green-sahara-african-humid-periods-paced-by-82884405/ https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/green-saha... If you're referencing the likely near-extinction of humans ~74,000 years ago, it's not clear anyone in the relatively recent past would have remembered that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory
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kwere 4y ago
Speculation: The Eden parable came "probably" from the mesopotamic delta which thousand of years ago was in the middle of persian gulf (average depth: 50m) as sea levels were lower and whatever civilization/population was there had to migrate to norther and drier places when sea levels raised (even quickly with waterpulse-1a/b/c)[0] [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meltwater_pulse_1B https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meltwater_pulse_1B

canadianfella 4y ago

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photochemsyn 4y ago

I'd guess the 'Garden of Eden' as referenced in the Abrahamic religious traditions might have been in today's Sahara: > "Paleoclimate and archaeological evidence tells us that, 11,000-5,000 years ago, the Earth's slow orbital 'wobble' transformed today's Sahara desert to a land covered with vegetation and lakes." https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/green-sahara-african-humid-periods-paced-by-82884405/ https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/green-saha... If you're referencing the likely near-extinction of humans ~74,000 years ago, it's not clear anyone in the relatively recent past would have remembered that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory

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kwere 4y ago

Speculation: The Eden parable came "probably" from the mesopotamic delta which thousand of years ago was in the middle of persian gulf (average depth: 50m) as sea levels were lower and whatever civilization/population was there had to migrate to norther and drier places when sea levels raised (even quickly with waterpulse-1a/b/c)[0] [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meltwater_pulse_1B https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meltwater_pulse_1B