Isidore, Bede, and Strabo and the Master of scholastic history, with St. Some pagans pretended to adduce arguments to establish that it was in the Fortunate Islands, now called the Canaries. Some placed it in Ethiopia at the sources of the Nile, but others, traversing all these countries, found neither the temperature nor the altitude of the sun correspond with their ideas respecting it nor did it appear that the overwhelming waters of the deluge had been there. I do not find, nor ever have found, any account by the Romans or Greeks which fixes in a positive manner the site of the terrestrial Paradise, neither have I seen it given in any mappe-monde, laid down from authentic sources. The Holy Scriptures record that our Lord made the earthly Paradise and planted in it the tree of life and thence springs a fountain from which the four principal rivers of the world take their source namely, the Ganges in India, the Tigris and Euphrates, and the Nile. In his loyal epistle to Ferdinand and Isabella thus he writes:. He is in the Gulf of Paria to the north or north-west of the mouth of the Orinoco. With what emotions must his heart have thrilled as, steering up this ascent, he felt his "ships smoothly rising toward the sky," the weather becoming "milder" as he rose! To be so near the Paradise of God's own planting, to be the first discoverer of the way in which the believing world could at length, after so many ages, once more approach its sacred precincts even if forbidden to enter,-what an exquisite experience it must have been to the lonely spirit of that great explorer! One of the most interesting and pathetic passages to be found in all literature is that in which Christopher Columbus announces to his royal patrons his supposed discovery of the ascent to the gate of the long-lost Garden of Eden.
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Download for ereaders (below donate buttons) This book has 261 pages in the PDF version, and was originally published in 1885. If the science of all this has now been corrected (with the discovery of plate tectonics, and the filling in of the polar maps), the books also contains reviews of the folklore of the subjects like the tree of life, the world mountain, and of course, Eden.Ĭhapters include: Ancient Cosmology and Mythical Geography The Cradle of the Race in Ancient Japanese Thought The Cradle of the Race in Chinese Thought The Cradle of the Race in East Aryan or Hindu Thought The Cradle of the Race in Iranian, or Old-Persian, Thought The Cradle of the Race in Ancient Akkadian, Assyrian, and Babylonian Thought The Cradle of the Race in Ancient Egyptian Thought The Cradle of the Race in Ancient Greek Thought, and many more. In this book, Warren puts forth his belief that Atlantis, the Garden of Eden, Avalon, and a couple of other mythical lands were all once situated at the North Pole, noting that Homer, Vigil, and Hesiod all placed Atlas at the 'ends of the earth'. Paradise Found: The Cradle of the Human Race at the North Pole is a book by William Fairfield Warren, first published in 1885.
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