“A river went out of Eden to water paradise; and then split into four rivers. The name of one is Pison: it flows around the whole land of Havilah, the one where gold is … The name of the second river is Gihon (Geon); it flows around the whole land of Kush. The name of the third river is Hiddekel (Tigris); it flows before Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates”(Gen. 2: 10-14).
Traditionally, the earthly Paradise is located in the area of northern Mesopotamia, where there is the Euphrates River, but there is no land of Kush, which is located in Africa in the region of Ethiopia. In this country there is Lake Tana, from where the Blue Nile River flows out, which Ethiopians call Guyon and it really flows around the land of Kush - Ethiopia. Its bed repeats the ring structure of the former giant volcano in the vent, which is Lake Tana. All this land is covered with a thick layer of volcanic ash of red color and it, falling into the Nile during the flood, created the fertile (oily) muddy soil of Egypt.
Let's translate all these toponyms that are not clear in meaning from Sanskrit to check this new version of the location of Paradise.
The word Kush has a similar Sanskrit word: kuc, a, "kusha", "the name of the herb used in religious ceremonies," since Ethiopia is famous for its incense.
In the word Havil there is the familiar word "silt" which is part of the word Nile and means muddy sediment after the flooding of the river. The second initial word "hav" is suitable for the word hala [hala], "earth, water", i.e. "Land of muddy water".
Let's read the name of the Guyon river on the contrary, Noyig, and in Sanskrit: nau ing [nauing], where nau is "ship", and ing is "to go, move", i.e. "Navigable river" along which papyrus boats are still used.
The second river is Pison - carrying or nas il [us silt], where nas "to unite, to unite", ie "Connect with the Nile." It looks like the White Nile that connects to the Blue Nile.
The third river Hiddekel in direct translation means: hud dic el [huddish el], where hud “to go”, dic “country, land”, el, “god, saint”, i.e. "The river goes (flows) to the land of the gods."
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The name of the fourth river, the Euphrates - tarfe, we translate as tar hvar [tar – khvar], where tar “to cross, to be saved”, hvar “to go astray, to be delusional”, i.e. "The river that saves the lost".
If you look at the map of Ethiopia and compare the names of its four rivers with the Biblical rivers of Paradise, then the first Pison river is the White Nile, the second Gihon or Geon is the Blue Nile, the third Hiddekel is Atbar and the fourth Euphrates is Tekeze.
As for the words "tiger" and "Assyria", then they are understandable if you know that Ethiopia has a province of Tigrai, and the Ethiopians themselves (the Greek word meaning "burnt faces") were previously called the inhabitants of Abyssinia, which is consonant with Assyria.
Few people know that the Nile even had its own Babylon, a city that was later renamed. Another confirmation of this version that Paradise was located in the area of the sacred Lake Tana is the translation of this name from Sanskrit. The word Tana has a consonant Sanskrit word tanaya [tanaya], which means "offspring of people, son and daughter, people." Agree that the name of the lake is a very strange name, if it was not an epithet of the place from which the sons and daughters of the first people began to spread before. The word "spread" also sounds in Sanskrit as "tan", and offspring, "tana". In addition, geneticists argue that Africa is the homeland of humanity, and about 150 thousand years ago a woman lived there, from whom seven billion people bred. It was in Ethiopia that the most ancient tools of labor were found, which are 2.5 million years old.
Author: Vladimir Kom