Geography of Paradise

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

The location of Paradise can only be determined if our religious worldview does not contradict our scientific worldview.

As a believer, I am convinced that true religion does not contradict true science, as well as vice versa. The scientific picture of the world does not contradict the religious one. They can only complement each other. Otherwise, we are talking about either pseudoscience or false religion.

It is from these positions that we will try to analyze the biblical myth of Paradise. At first glance, there is very little information to identify this geographic feature. But if you look closely …

Let's try to answer the questions:

1. What historical events are reflected in this myth?
2. When did these events take place?
3. Where did these events take place?
4. Is there any material evidence of these events?

Undoubtedly, the myth of Paradise reflects the most striking event in the history of all mankind - the fact of human origin. But such historical events, when there was a sharp, explosive growth of consciousness, in the history of mankind there were only two. The first is the very fact of the origin of man as a species of Homo sapiens. And the second is the Great Neolithic Revolution, when after many thousands of years of life in the Stone Age, in a moment on the scale of history, in one or two thousand years, mankind escaped from caves and dugouts, created civilization. The fact of the origin of a civilized person. There was no brighter and more significant event in the history of mankind.

The myth says that in Paradise, a person was allowed to eat of the fruits of each tree, and, after being expelled from Paradise, to produce his bread in the sweat of his brow. But the economic essence of the events of the Neolithic revolution is precisely the transition from an appropriating economy to a producing economy. And they happened, according to the scientific historical theory, 9, 5-7, 5 thousand years ago. By the way, this also coincides with the Greek version of heavenly events, according to which the act of creation of the (civilized) world took place 7, 5 thousand years ago.

Let us ask ourselves how many original lands did the ancient peoples have? Was the Neolithic revolution carried out in different places and lands of Eurasia, or in one specific place? We find the answer to this question in linguistic theory, in the theory of the monogenesis of languages. According to this theory, for example, Russian is included in the group of Slavic languages. Slavic languages are part of the Indo-European language family, the largest on the planet. In addition to the Indo-European language family, there are other language families on the territory of Eurasia: Altai, Uralic, Caucasian (Kartvelian), Aleutian, etc. And even earlier, on the border of the Mesolithic and Neolithic (Middle Stone and New Stone Age), there was a single Borean (Boreal, Nostratic) linguistic community. Among themselves, the Borean, Boreal and Nostratic communities differ in the depth of occurrence in time. For simplicity, let me call the peoples of these communities Boreans.

The Boreans were an alliance of tribes living on the border of the Mesolithic and Neolithic (approximately 11 - 7 thousand years ago) compactly on the same territory, speaking closely related languages. The globe was completely inhabited by that time. But it was the Boreans who performed the miracle of the Neolithic revolution, built the first civilization on earth. Thus, linguistic science gives us a clear and unambiguous answer. The original land, as the primary center of cultural genesis, was one - one unique for all peoples.

The theory of monogenesis of languages, supported by the Creole theory, unequivocally states that on the border of the Mesolithic and Neolithic there was only one primary focus of cultural genesis. This is the land of the Borean union of tribes - Paradise.

Is it possible to determine, based on the data of linguistic science, the alleged habitat of the Boreans? Let's try to do this by analyzing well-known facts. 1. It is known that mountain and northern vocabulary was always present in the language of people from the original land. 2. The last language families that separated from the Nostratic macrofamily were the Indo-European, Ural and Altai families. 3. Places of addition of the Uralic, Altai and Indo-European language families are well known. The Ural family has developed in the forest zone of the Urals and the Urals. There is no southern vocabulary in the language of the Uralic peoples. The Uralic language family has never lived in Mesopotamia and Asia Minor and Western Asia. The Indo-European language family has developed in the interfluve of the Volga and the Urals, which is confirmed by the data of linguistics, genetics and archeology. The Altai language family has developed in the forest-steppe and steppe zones of the Trans-Urals, east of the Ural River, up to Altai. It can be assumed that the place of convergence of the original areas of the Uralic, Altai and Indo-European families was the original land, the point of their divergence, the land of the Borean (Boreal, Nostratic) linguistic community. On a geographic map, this place is projected onto the South Urals.

So, we decided on who participated in the Paradise events - these are the Boreans, who lived compactly in the same territory. We found out what these events were. This is the Great Neolithic Revolution, the transition from the Stone Age to the Copper Stone Age. Finally, we outlined the time of these events - 10-7, 5 thousand years ago.

Let's try to give an exact geographic definition of the location of Paradise, the Garden of Eden. To begin with, historians and biblical scholars for the most part adhere to the Levantine hypothesis of Paradise, or the circumpontian hypothesis of the origin of civilization. The Levantine hypothesis suggests that Paradise was in Mesopotamia, between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates, or near this place. The foundation is the origin of the Sumerian and, nearby, the Egyptian states, as well as the ancient state of Urartu with stone architecture. But there are objections. First. Egypt, Sumerian city-states - later cultures that originated at a later time, 6 thousand years ago. Earlier cultures, an intermediate link, have not been found.

Second. There are no, or rather not identified, geographical objects mentioned in the ancient myths of different peoples. The existing hypotheses of their geographical identification are speculative and so "strained", far from the descriptions of myths and fairy tales, that they do not stand up to criticism.

Third. According to archaeological data and written sources, there was an influx of blond people from the east, who became teachers - civilizers and an elite for the local population.

Fourth. In the ancient calendar of Sumer, the longest daylight hours are 18 hours, and the shortest is 6 hours. But in Mesopotamia, the longest day is much shorter and the shortest day is much longer. Later the Sumerian calendar was corrected. This means that the ancestors of the civilizers of the Sumerian tribes came from territories located much north of Mesopotamia. Adding the vectors to the east and north from Egypt and Mesopotamia gives the direction to the northeast, towards the original land.

Another, circumpontic, hypothesis suggests that civilization originated near the Mediterranean and Black Seas. This is indicated by the presence of ancient settlements of the Trypillian culture and individual archaeological artifacts, for example, traces of ancient writing on fragments of pottery.

I have a different hypothesis. Paradise, the Garden of Eden, the place of residence of the Borean community was the South Ural with the adjacent lands. At the same time, I propose not to take my word for it, but to critically evaluate all the pros and cons. I propose to compare the evidence of hypotheses about the geographical position of Paradise and the place where civilization was built. To find the primary focus of cultural genesis, it is necessary to determine the places of stable human habitation in the Mesolithic. One of these places was the South Urals. Moreover, already in the Mesolithic, signs of the advanced development of this particular area are noted. What are the grounds for this statement?

It is known that in the Stone Age, people steadily lived at the outlets of raw materials. A breakthrough achievement in improving the methods of making tools in the Mesolithic was the invention of the microlith technique. These are such small, extremely sharp stones that they glued into the splits of sticks. Microlith knives and sickles cut even glass. The production of microliths required a high level of development of stone processing. Microliths were found in Western and Central Asia, in southern Siberia and in other areas. But most microliths are found in the South Urals. Moreover, microliths from the Ural stone were found in Western and Central Asia and in Southern Siberia. This indicates a developed trade and cultural exchange in the Mesolithic in large areas of Eurasia. For some reason, microliths from Western and Central Asia have not been found in the Southern Urals. And why this is so is also understandable. It was in the Southern Urals and in the Urals that there were many outcrops of raw materials suitable for the manufacture of tools in the Stone Age. We draw a conclusion about the advanced development of this region in the field of stone processing and in the manufacture of tools during the Mesolithic.

In the South Urals, megalithic religious structures have been discovered - menhirs, artificially constructed underground temples, places of worship, dolmens, geoglyphs (giant images of animals, visible only from a great height. Auth.), Cave cities, proto-cities, sanctuaries, tombs, and other structures from the Mesolithic times and the Neolithic. For example, the Shigir idol found in the Middle Urals is dated by the method of radiocarbon analysis to 8, 5-8, 7 millennium BC. All this testifies to the rich religious practice of the peoples and tribes that steadily lived on this territory in the Mesolithic. And, in addition, drawings of cave painting (Shulgan - Tash) and sculptures (O. Vera, Lake Turgoyak) from the Stone Age were discovered. This means that already in the Mesolithic and even in the Paleolithic in the Urals, such a phenomenon of spiritual life as art was developed. Let's compare all this wealth with what was by that time in other territories and draw conclusions.

According to Muslim legends and Indian myths, the primordial earth should contain gold, chrysolites, emeralds, rock crystal and other gems. In the Urals, all this is in abundance! And in other lands that claim to be the cradle of humanity?

In the Old Testament, it is indicated that a river came out of Eden (underground, author's note) to irrigate Paradise and was divided (on the surface, author's note) into four rivers. The name of one is Pison: it flows around the land of Havilah, the one where gold is. This is the river Kialim, Miass, Iset, Tobol, according to the ideas of ancient people - the source of the Ob, with continuous gold mining for the last 300 years. The name of the second river is Gihon: it flows around the entire land of Kush. This is the Ay - Ufa river. And the Kushans are one of the Turanian tribes that lived on its shores and only later left for the South. The name of the third river is Hiddekel, it flows in front of Assyria. This is the Ural River. The borders of Assyria went out to the Caspian Sea, where it flows, having a source in the South Urals. The fourth river - Pratt - the Belaya, Kama river, according to the ideas of ancient people - the source of the Belaya Volozhga (Volga). All these rivers originate on one mountain - Iremel in the South Urals. How many mountains do we know from which four rivers of such length would take their source and flow in different directions? It can be confidently asserted that there are no more such places on the globe.

What inventions of the Neolithic revolution testify to the building of civilization? We can argue that civilization is built only with the presence of a combination of several fundamental human inventions, such as agriculture, animal husbandry, ceramics, weaving, metallurgy, the wheel and the domestication of draft animals. For example, the presence of only agriculture in large settlements with a sedentary population is not yet evidence of the building of civilization. For example, the presence of evidence of domestication - the domestication of animals in large settlements with a sedentary population and elements of agriculture, is not yet evidence of the building of civilization. Only the totality of all! of these fundamental inventions in one locality makes it possible to draw a conclusion about the presence of a primary focus of cultural genesis, about an accomplished fact of building a civilization.

The first factor. The invention of ceramics. Where was the oldest pottery found on mainland Eurasia, as an ongoing tradition? 13 - 12 thousand years ago, ceramics was invented on the territory of the Amur region and China. If we find out where the first ceramics were discovered in Europe, then we will understand the direction of information flows of that time. It turns out that the first ceramics in Europe was discovered on the Ural tributaries of the Volga (Olshanskaya culture). The products were also made from silt deposits with organic additives. Since then, the tradition of man-made pottery in Europe has never been interrupted.

Second factor. The invention of agriculture. Historians have established as an indisputable fact that the cultivation of cereals was preceded by the cultivation of garden crops, vegetables, root crops, and on the American continent - tuberous crops. The fact is that labor costs in the cultivation of root and tuber crops are ten times less, and the yield is ten times greater than in the cultivation of cereals. Thus, in order to determine the place of origin of agriculture in particular and the producing economy as a whole, it is necessary to determine the place of domestication of the first vegetables.

Paleobotanists claim that the first vegetable cultivated on the planet was turnip. Turnip was part of the diet of the first pyramid builders in Egypt; turnips were known to the Sumerians, Assyrians, Phoenicians, Greeks and other ancient peoples. But turnips are endemic to the Urals and Siberia. That is, in the wild, turnip grew only in the Urals and Siberia. Only here could she be domesticated. This is a fact established by paleobotanists. By the way, turnip was a staple food in Russia and one of the main food products in Europe before they learned to grow potatoes here. The question is, where did the civilizers come to Egypt with their turnips from?

The second cultivated vegetable was onion, which is endemic to the north of Europe and the Urals. In ancient Egypt, it was possible to exchange a bundle of onions in the market in exchange for a ritual vessel with a drink of the gods to commemorate deceased relatives. Frescoes with scenes of such an exchange have survived. We conclude that the carriers of civilization came to Egypt from the places of endemic growth of turnips and onions.

The third factor. The invention of weaving. The first fabrics, not sackcloth from nettle and hemp, namely fabrics, were made from flax. Of the two hundred species of flax, only one was domesticated, endemic to the north of Europe and the Urals. In the beginning, only the priests and the aristocracy could afford linen fabrics. The mummies of the pharaohs in the tombs under the pyramids were wrapped in linen. The wealthy inhabitants of the ancient Sumerian cities also used linen fabrics. We conclude that the carriers of civilization came to the ancient Sumerians and Egyptians from the places of endemic growth of cultivated flax.

The fourth factor. The invention of animal husbandry. Currently, the exact place of domestication of goats and sheep has not been found. There are only hypotheses that it may have happened in the Zagros mountains, in the southern Caspian region. But the true beginning of animal husbandry, in my opinion, should be considered the domestication of bulls and cows. Long-horned steppe bulls were domesticated on the territory corresponding to modern Turkmenistan 9 thousand years ago. At the same time, even farther north, on the territory of the Southern Urals, short-horned forest bulls were domesticated. All the meat and dairy direction of cattle on the planet Earth now is a line of short-legged Ural bulls. For example, cattle were brought to Europe by the Celts, who took their start in the South Urals. The oldest herd of four types of cattle in Eurasia, consisting of goats, sheep, cows, horses, was found on the territory of Bashkiria, on the Ik River and dates back to the 5-7th millennium. This is evidenced by the results of the South Ural expedition of the Institute of Archeology of the USSR Academy of Sciences under the leadership of Doctor of Historical Sciences, Matyushin Gerald Nikolaevich.

A man of the Neolithic period had numerous, thousands of herds of cattle. In ancient myths, scenes of the sacrifice of hundreds and even thousands of heads are described. This means that in the place where the Neolithic revolution took place, there should be rich pastures.

I remember the story of one veteran. During the Great Patriotic War, as a teenager, he drove cattle from Ukraine to the Orenburg region. When he arrived in the village near Uralsk, he was very much surprised. There was a huge herd with many thousands of livestock for a dozen yards. He asked the locals how they cope with the procurement of feed? The answer discouraged him. It turns out … no one procured food. The animals obtained their own food from the tebenevka. It was enough to knock down the snow with a hoof, and there the grass was waist-deep. So this is where the myths about hecatombs, the sacrifice of thousands of heads of cattle, are formed! For the owners of such a herd, the culling of a thousand heads is not a loss, but a benefit.

The veteran said that early in the morning the hostess, with whom he stayed, took buckets and left for the floodplain. After a couple of hours, she returned with buckets full of eggs. From the floodplains on the river with the strange name Yaik - an egg, renamed the Ural River. Is it not from this egg that the world (civilized society) originated according to the pagan theory of the origin of (civilized) life?

Factor five. Domestication, domestication of the horse. The horse that has been domesticated is an endemic animal. Herds of these horses, according to paleozoologists, lived in the Caspian and Ural steppes. During the meridian migration of steppe animals, herds of horses descended to the Caspian Sea in winter and returned to the Ural steppes in summer. It was there that they were domesticated, according to archaeologists. This is the Batay culture of Northern Kazakhstan and the Southern Urals. The fact of domestication, domestication of the horse in the South Urals, in addition to archeological data, is confirmed by the data of geneticists and is not disputed by anyone. That is, horses could not be tamed on the territory between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in Asia Minor, in Egypt. The Egyptians, for example, learned about horses and chariots only one and a half thousand years BC from the Hyksos, … whose ancestors lived in the Southern Urals. Imagine a handful of backward herders from the South Urals arrived, captured the most powerful state of the ancient world with its most powerful, advanced and invincible army and ruled Egypt for 100 years ?! … Or maybe these herders were not so backward?

The sixth factor. The invention of the wheel and chariot. The oldest spoked wheel and chariot on planet Earth were found in a burial in the South Urals, excavation site Sintashta-2. To invent a chariot, a person must have the highest, advanced for that time level of development of crafts, highly developed skills in woodworking and metallurgy, for the manufacture of metal wheel hubs.

Seventh factor. The invention of copper metallurgy. We can judge about the presence of metallurgy only by the presence of a completed metallurgical process of smelting metal from ore. The first items made of meteorite iron or native copper were luxury items, ornaments. Labor tools began to be made only from smelted metal. The first ore from which they learned to smelt copper was malachite, copper oxide. There must be a superficial malachite deposit in the original earth. That is, malachite, literally, should roll underfoot. They did not immediately start digging the mines. There are not so many malachite deposits on earth. And there are only a few superficial ones. One of them is in the South Urals. Remember, "Malachite Box", "Mistress of the Copper Mountain" and others. Can you name a place on the planet where pieces of malachite are lying under your feet? I'll name it! This is the Ilmensky Mineralogical Reserve. There, in one place, all the minerals that are on the planet are collected and there are minerals that are not found anywhere else on the planet. Can we assume that the Stone Age craftsmen, who were looking for outlets of raw materials for the production of tools and ornaments, bypassed this place with their attention? Unlikely.

Metallurgical slags and a metallurgical furnace dating back to the Stone Age - Eneolithic, were found in the South Urals on Vera Island, Lake Turgoyak, near the Ilmensky Reserve. For some reason, immediately after this and many other discoveries, funding for the archaeological expedition to Lake Turgoyak was terminated, and archaeological specialists were withdrawn. At present, the most ancient temples, dolmens and other structures of the cradle of civilized mankind are not protected by anyone, they are quickly and mercilessly destroyed by "black" archaeologists and "wild" tourists.

Factor eighth. The invention of bronze metallurgy. The first arsenic bronze items (the oldest) were found in the Southern Urals, they were smelted from the ore of the Uchalinsky deposits.

Factor nine. The invention of iron metallurgy. The most ancient iron tools were found in the Southern Urals and Southern Siberia. Dated to the end of the 4th beginning of the 3rd millennium BC! The first bimetallic welded tools were also discovered there (just imagine the level of technology development in this region at the end of the 4th millennium BC!) With a working surface made of iron and a welded main part made of arsenous bronze. (Archeology: Textbook - M.; Publishing house of Moscow University, 2012. - p. 274). At that time adzes, chisels and other tools were made of iron in the Southern Urals.

For comparison, in Asia Minor, among the Hittites, iron products (luxury goods), even two thousand years later, were worth six times more than gold. Meteorite iron was used to make only jewelry and luxury goods. Making tools out of meteorite iron is like making shovels and toilets out of platinum today. Can? Yes! But who will allow it? However, toilets are sometimes made of gold.

And later, in ancient times, when there was still the Bronze Age in ancient Rome, two-handed iron swords were placed in the burials of warriors in the Southern Urals (excavations near Yuzhno-Uralsk).

Surprisingly, in the same textbook, but on another page (280), based on the above archaeological finds, the conclusion is drawn: “The leading region in the development of iron, where the Iron Age began already in the last quarter of the second millennium BC, was … Asia Minor (the region of the Hittite kingdom), as well as the Eastern Mediterranean and Transcaucasia closely related to it "… Yes-ah, in their conclusions about the beginning of the Iron Age, the authors rely on" iron "logic!

The tenth factor. The first iron was invented by the Khalibs, a people who lived in the original land, according to the Greeks, in Hyperborea, where Prometheus was chained to a rock “in the land of the unpopulated Scythians”. Khalib iron was special - it didn't rust. The Khalibs washed ore in local rivers to smelt their iron. The iron did not rust because the composition of the ore included an additive - ilmenite, iron titanide. This means that the rivers of the Khalibs flowed through deposits of ilmenite and magnetite. The largest ilmenite deposit on Earth is located in the South Urals, near Lake Turgoyak. Magnetite deposits are also located there. It is not difficult to make a chemical analysis and determine from which ore the Khalib iron was smelted.

Eleventh factor. The invention of the compound bow is the greatest invention of the Neolithic. Composite bow - glued from different types of wood, was a superweapon of the Neolithic times. An arrow fired from such a bow had tremendous penetrating power. It was possible to make such a bow only with the help of glue from a bubble of sturgeon fish, … endemic to the Volga - Kama and Ural river basins.

They will object to me that no ancient cities have been found in the Southern Urals. But it is not so. Proto-cities of the Arkaim type are scattered in great numbers over this land. Yes, this is a later culture. But how to find earlier settlements, if at the slightest hint of their discovery, funding for archaeological expeditions is cut off and scientists are redirected to other research. How to find them if there are many !!! megalithic temples and places of worship in the Urals remain unrecorded and unexplored by archaeologists. Amateurs and public associations are forced to take photographs of such structures. So, amateurs captured hundreds of photos and tied them to geographic coordinates !!! dolmens, ignored by archaeologists. I do not question the qualifications of archaeologists who are forced to work in this region on the basis of their enthusiasm. But I don’t understand the goals of archeology finance leaders. Perhaps someone needs to hide Paradise from humanity? Perhaps they want to represent the spiritual center of all mankind, to designate another place?

However, the remains of one of these ancient cities were discovered in 2011 on Lake Zyuratkul, in the Chelyabinsk region. Archaeologist, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Gerald Matyushin investigated them first and dated the stone structures to the 12th millennium BC. e.. But, not having the capabilities of aerial photography, it was difficult to determine their scale. Subsequently, it was determined from aerial photographs that the city was about the size of Jericho (2 km x 300 m).

It would seem that archaeological discoveries made in the South Urals, any country could attract millions of tourists from all over the world. But historians do not want to draw conclusions about the origins of civilization in the Ural Mountains. Without disputing the above archaeological finds, they manage to draw a "logical" conclusion that Paradise was in or near the Levant, that civilization originated on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. Apparently, the financing of the search for Paradise in the South Urals is not included in the sphere of geopolitical interests of the gentlemen who order history. But facts are stubborn things.

Summarizing what has been said, I draw my conclusion: the most important inventions of the Neolithic revolution were made in the Urals and in the Urals. It was from here that they spread across the territory of Eurasia. This is evidenced by the data of archeology and linguistics. The land, where agriculture, animal husbandry, ceramics, weaving, metallurgy of copper, bronze and iron, draft animals, wheels and chariots, as well as many other inventions of the Neolithic revolution were used simultaneously on the planet, were the lands of the Urals and the Urals. The first civilization was built in the Urals! Paradise is the lands of the Urals and the Urals!

By the way, the Urals used to be called "Stone". You know, a whip is a wattle, a brush is a whip. The ending "en" means - "containing in itself". Kama in Sanskrit is "love". Stone - containing love. Paradise love! Love of all peoples! Love for the primordial earth!