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"And a river went out of Eden to water the garden;
and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. The name of
the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah,
where there is gold; And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and
the onyx stone. And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is
it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia. And the name of the third river
is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the
fourth river is Euphrates." Genesis 2:10-14 Even before we went on our expedition to the Dead Sea, we
had obtained a startling satellite image
of a configuration of
rivers which seemed to fit the above description much better than any other
theory so far proposed. Because we had been advised on how much secrecy was
important to the making of television documentaries, we kept the information
confidential. As you all know, the advice by Channel 4 in the UK
and NBC in the USA was
essentially self-serving and was a disservice to science and the free flow of
information. We have therefore
decided to publish the image to
allow investigators to continue the work that the television companies have
tried to stymie.  In the coming weeks we will try and tie together all the
actors regarding the Northern Theory that the Biblical account does not refer
to events in Mesopotamia, but rather all of them took place in Turkey. From
Eden,
to the Flood, via
the Tower of Babel
Account, through the story of Abraham
all took place in a relatively small area between the Black Sea in the North
and the Ararat range in the East. It is quite remarkable that one of the four rivers out of
Eden runs directly to the Ararat range and it is quite likely that the
Biblical account describes a situation
that after the great catastrophe of the flood where the survivors were at
Ararat, they proceeded to "go home", that is follow the river back
to Eden. Along the way some of them stopping to create events that were to be
known as "The Tower of Babel" saga.
Could it only have been a coincidence that language experts trace the
origins of the indo-European
language to precisely this region? One final point this week. It is of course obvious that rivers do not rise in the desert, they rise in mountains. The Southern theory was always just wishful thinking. Press References: Michael S. Sanders Irvine, California 01/06/2001
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