Originally posted by AThousandYoungOh, the Sumerians again.http://www.ldolphin.org/eden/
One clue lies in linguistics: the term Eden, or Edin, appears first in Sumer, the Mesopotamian region that produced the world's first written language. This was in the third millennium B.C., more than three thousand years after the rise of the Ubaid culture. In Sumerian the word "Eden" meant simply "fertile pl ...[text shortened]... m" also existed in cuneiform, meaning something like "settlement on the plain."
You know, ever since Zecharia Sitchin did his research on some Sumerian tablets and formulated his bizarro theories, I haven't had much confidence in anything the Sumerians managed to carve out on their tablets.
If they really wrote what he says they wrote, then they were a people who were WAY too much into the peyote, if you know what I mean.
Originally posted by SuzianneSince most of what was written then is gone forever, maybe what you hear about was the equivalent of hippies of the day. It could be just what was accidentally left.
Oh, the Sumerians again.
You know, ever since Zecharia Sitchin did his research on some Sumerian tablets and formulated his bizarro theories, I haven't had much confidence in anything the Sumerians managed to carve out on their tablets.
If they really wrote what he says they wrote, then they were a people who were WAY too much into the peyote, if you know what I mean.