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Was the Garden of Eden at the North Pole?

2/6/2014

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Where was the Garden of Eden? Religious scholars have spent thousands of years looking for the Biblical paradise. Commonly, scholars suggest that any potential real-world model for Eden existed at the head of the Persian Gulf where the Tigris and Euphrates once met the Persian Karun River and the now-vanished Wadi Al-Rummah that once emptied into the Persian Gulf. This would therefore correlate both with the four rivers of Eden described in Genesis as well as the proposed location of the Mesopotamian paradise called Dilmun. However, others have proposed locations ranging from India to Jackson County, Missouri.

Today I’d like to discuss one of the more fanciful suggestions, which attracted a scholarly hearing at the end of the nineteenth century.

In Paradise Found (1885), the Rev. William F. Warren, president of Boston University, proposed a startling new theory about the location of Eden, “that the cradle of the human race, the Eden of primitive tradition, was situated at the North Pole, in a country submerged at the time of the Deluge.” His evidence for this claim ranged from the improbable to the ridiculous, as judged in the light of modern science, but in his time scholars had not yet discovered two essential facts that we know today: (a) that there is no land mass hidden beneath the arctic ice cap, and (b) that the ice has been in place since before the emergence of human beings. So much for his geographic, botanical, and zoological evidence, which he though sealed the case that the Arctic had once been a tropic paradise and the place from which all life evolved.

More interesting is his claim for comparative mythology, which begins, as all fringe history books must (even when written by seemingly mainstream scholars), with the assertion that “the cosmology of the ancients has been totally misconceived by modern scholars” and that our author has some unique insight that gives him special knowledge of the truth. He begins by disputing that the ancients viewed the world as a flat plane surmounted by a metal or clay vault, in apparently willful contradiction of the plain reading of ancient texts (Enuma Elish 4.137-138, Iliad 17.425, Odyssey 15.329, Genesis 1:6-8, 3 Baruch 3:7, etc.). Instead, he claims that the ancients viewed the earth as a sphere in which the gods lived in the stars above the North Pole, humans in the northern hemisphere, the dead in the southern hemisphere, and demons in the stars below the South Pole. He is here literalizing the ancient concept of stacked planes and applying them directly to the earth itself. He goes on to literalize the concept of the world axis (around which the stars revolve) as twin mountains rising from the poles.

This interpretation, though, is more a difference of form rather than a difference in kind. Flat or curved, the result isn’t really all that different except in one detail: By asserting that the ancients knew the earth to be round, it makes north more than just a direction on a map and lets Warren revise the Islands of the Blessed (in the west) and Eden (in the east) to correspond with the polar paradise in the north imagined as Hyperborea and Ultima Thule, and the world axis with the North Pole, despite Hindu cosmology placing Mount Meru in “the middle of the earth,” the Canaanites claiming it to be Mt. Hermon, and so on—after all, relative to the observer, the stars appear to spin high above any spot on earth, not specifically the North Pole. By collapsing mythic variation into the physical reality of geography, he makes every myth into the North Pole, washing away contradictory evidence as corruption or misinterpretation. He also has difficulty accepting the ambiguity of ancient versions of the underworld (probably due to divergent traditions), where the land was accessible both by descending into the earth and by crossing the River Ocean, instead asserting that such a land could only be the southern hemisphere.

He concludes that the aurora borealis gave rise to the myth of a polar paradise blessed by God since the lights would have been taken as evidence of the divine abode of the gods in the memory of the descendants of the polar peoples.

Warren received some interesting support. William Gladstone, Homeric scholar and British prime minister, endorsed part of his idea because it conformed to his own idea of Homeric cosmology, and professors of various ancient languages, cultures, and religions endorsed his reading.

This isn’t really important. What is important is Warren’s claim, first expressed in an earlier book called The True Key to Ancient Cosmology and Mythical Geography (1882), which focused on Homer, that Atlantis “must be looked for, not between Europe and America, but at the pole, whither all the oldest ethnic traditions point us for the cradle of the human race.” While expressed in a footnote, he would expand upon it for the later book. There, he identified Atlantis with the Garden of Eden, and he asserted that both “were precisely where the tradition” of the ancients placed them: the North Pole. He does so by identifying Atlantis with Hyperborea (on the faulty claims of Noah’s Ark theorist Jacob Bryant, citing Pindar [Pythian 10], who said no such thing) and the charmed, long, and leisurely lives of the Hyperboreans (Pliny, Natural History 4.26) with the sinless world of Eden.

You will, undoubtedly, recognize the core of this claim. Although modern science makes a tropical continent at the North Pole impossible, modern fringe writers can’t let an old claim die. Rand and Rose Flem-Ath, in When the Sky Fell (1995), invert it, though apparently without knowledge of the original, basing their work on Charles Hapgood and the earth crust displacement theory. In 2004, Robert Argod wrote Out of Antarctica which more explicitly recycled Warren’s claims. He used the same evidence that Warren had—claims of tropical plants and warm-weather myths—but moved everything to Antarctica (the South Pole). Graham Hancock, of course, famously embraced the Antarctica-as-Atlantis theory for a time before the sheer weight of geological fact forced him to amend his views.

But surely the silliest application of the theory has to be in Raymond Bernard’s 1964 opus The Hollow Earth, actually written pseudonymously by Dr. Walter Siegmeister, an occultist who hoped to start a Master Race in Brazil. He was a UFO believer and an early exponent of ancient astronaut themes (vimana aircraft, etc.). He argued that the Atlanteans moved into the hollow earth where they developed UFOs and have become greatly upset at our nuclear weapons. In so doing, he adopted part of Warren’s argument and then made it ridiculous in his attempt to deal with the geological fact that no tropical paradise ever existed at the North Pole by removing it into the earth. Right after summarizing Warren’s claims and tying them to the hollow earth theory, he writes:
May not Santa Claus represent a race memory of a benefactor of humanity who came from this subterranean race, who came to the surface through the north polar opening—perhaps on a flying saucer, symbolized by his flying sled and reindeer?

So there you have it: Polar civilization, Atlantis in the Arctic or Antarctic, and Santa Claus conquering the Martians in his UFO. No idea, no matter how wrong, can ever just die.

35 Comments
Only Me
2/6/2014 06:15:46 am

And the funny thing is, there is a 1964 movie called "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians"! There was no one on Mars to give their children presents, so they thought it was a brilliant idea to kidnap him.

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KIF
2/6/2014 11:09:01 am

Asking about the Garden of Eden is like asking about the Star of Bethlehem - only those with a direct line to God knew all the answers...

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PaulN. link
3/18/2014 07:32:31 am

There was also the 1974 Disney movie, Island at the top of the World. A lost Viking civilization on an unknown but semi-tropical island deep in the Arctic circle.

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An Over-Educated Grunt
2/6/2014 06:19:58 am

Wouldn't Santa Claus as a race memory rely on there being an equivalent solstice benefactor with an outlandish conveyance in many if not most northern-hemisphere cultures? It seems such a silly claim to make, too easily tested and too easily dismissed. At least you can see why he published it under a pseudonym. Make a claim like that under your own name and you'll find yourself a pariah, or worse, a laughingstock.

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Terry Melanson link
2/6/2014 06:36:29 am

Who's Wallace? You mention him twice but without an initial introduction.

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Jason Colavito link
2/6/2014 06:39:54 am

Sorry, it was a mistake for Warren because one of the other authors discussed him in conjunction with Alfred Russell Wallace. I've fixed it.

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2/7/2014 08:22:31 am

In 1915 he has this book out about John Milton's prose poem.
Now that his ideas are up there with Simon Newcomb's on
airplanes, propellers and taking long trans-Atlantic trips, can
I assume "Paradise Found' is his reply to "Paradise Lost" even
though the South Pole would have been a much wiser guess?

Matt Mc
2/6/2014 06:51:46 am

I am still stuck in Lovercraft mode and At the Mountains of Madness came to mind while reading this

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An Over-Educated Grunt
2/6/2014 08:23:47 am

A Lovercraft - is that a personal ground-effect vehicle with just room enough for one queen-sized mattress?

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Matt Mc
2/6/2014 09:07:13 am

Why yes it is. I don't think I will ever get passed my typos and such on this kindle

:)

An Over-Educated Grunt
2/6/2014 09:10:07 am

As I once said about Bill Brines, that old salt of a ufologist, I can't pass up a good pun. Chances are I'd be a terrible evil genius, because I'd have nothing but pun-based deathtraps.

kevin
2/6/2014 11:57:07 am

How can you not love Bill Birnes. Did you ever notice how many degrees this guy has? For all that education he would still buy the idea that if a mouse farts it's because an alien pulled its tail.

Cathleen Anderson
2/6/2014 08:12:16 am

There is a typo in the first paragraph non-vanished should be now vanished.

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Martin R
2/6/2014 08:25:27 am

I'm convinced Atlantis is actually where Hendrix, Morrison, Joplin, etc are in hiding.

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Dave Lewis
2/6/2014 12:25:09 pm

Simon R. Green would have us believe they are all performing in a club in the Nightside.

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Jim Morrison
2/6/2014 02:24:18 pm

We are in Atlanta not Atlantis, man. Atlanta has the most amazing hotel you’ve ever seen. You walk in, and from the outside it looks like any other large hotel. You get in and you look up and it goes up about 27 floors and the interior is like a Spanish courtyard, and architecturally it’s hollow. Ya know, like the earth.

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Shane Sullivan
2/6/2014 12:43:29 pm

"Graham Hancock, of course, famously embraced the Antarctica-as-Atlantis theory for a time before the sheer weight of geological fact forced him to amend his views."

I'm just now reading Fingerprints, and at 100 pages in, I'm anxious to see how Hancock reconciled the idea of a major pole shift with the archaeoastronomical methods used by Arthur Posnansky. I mean, if we're taking for granted that vast chunks of the earth's crust were careening across the globe like pinballs from 10,000 BC to 5,000 BC, then we can't very well assume that South America was exactly where conventional geography places it relative to the path of the sun in 15,000 BC. =P

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Jason Colavito link
2/6/2014 12:46:33 pm

You're asking for rather a lot of consistency! If I recall correctly (and I don't have it in front of me right now), his preferred crustal displacement would have occurred before Tiwanaku was built since the survivors supposedly built it.

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Shane Sullivan
2/6/2014 03:24:34 pm

Ah. I guess I'll find out for myself soon enough!

Thanks for the response.

Pacal
2/6/2014 12:50:50 pm

Since the Bible explicitly mentions the Euphrates river as being one of the Rivers of Eden, and it appears that one of the other three rivers mentioned is the Tigris. It would seem that Eden would be located in modern day Iraq. As for the other two rivers mentioned well that is a genuine mystery. If they once existed perhaps they dried up? Who knows! It is my understanding that the word Eden comes from a Sumerian term that means plain. So given all that I would think the most likely "location" for Eden would be the head of the Persian gulf in the plain od Sumer. The Bible verses in Genesis ch. 2, v. 10-14 are as follows:

"A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it was separated into four headwaters. 11 The name of the first is the Pishon; it winds through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold. 12 (The gold of that land is good; aromatic resin[d] and onyx are also there.) 13 The name of the second river is the Gihon; it winds through the entire land of Cush.[e] 14 The name of the third river is the Tigris; it runs along the east side of Ashur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates."

Certainly the location of the Garden of Eden is not really much of a mystery.

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Tara Jordan link
2/6/2014 01:37:33 pm

What strikes me with most of these new age and alternative historians today,they don`t even have the intellectual sophistication to read Mircea Eliade,or la littérature de pensée traditionaliste from authors like René Guénon or Julius Evola.Those have written extensively on the Hyperborean & the The Polar Myth(Arktos)

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Julio Cesar Assis
2/8/2014 02:28:21 am

They don't study these authors due to their high intellectual level, as in “The place of the Atlantean tradition in the Manvantara”, only four pages in René Guénon, Traditional Forms and Cosmic Cycles, p. 23-26.

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2/7/2014 02:56:10 am

I wonder why Atlantis holds such a mystical attraction. There have been lots of mythical places described throughout the ages, but for some reason those on the fringe have had an obsession with proving Atlantis was real.

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Tara Jordan link
2/7/2014 04:14:29 am

According to Platon,Atlantis the mythical realm of the far North & sacred capital of the Atlantes corresponds exactly to what is known as Héligoland (heiliges Land) the holy land,the antique Basiléia.

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!!!!!!!!
2/7/2014 04:23:13 am

thoughts of William Blake the Romantic poet... is England Eden
or at times almost Edenic when not under tons of sheet ice?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/news/norfolk-footprints-just-who-were-homo-antecessor-and-how-did-they-arrive-in-britain-9115354.html

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Rev. Phil Gotsch
2/7/2014 08:44:19 am

The Garden of Eden was in Minnesota (which this winter may as well BE the North Pole indeed … !!!) … and we have got some MIGHTY rivers indeed -- The Mississippi … The Red … The St. Louis ...

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J.A.D
2/7/2014 08:57:33 am

Hi Rev. Phil !

Are you psyched over the upcoming Solutrean episode?
I'm going to be low profile here. I dreadfully loused up a
thread yesterday and dare not go on at great length about
anything. Am going to hold back on things a bit as it is....

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Rev. Phil Gotsch
2/7/2014 10:39:08 am

I look forward to any discussions of "Paleo-America" in part because that was one of my minor degrees ...

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Julio Cesar Assis
2/7/2014 09:55:37 am

Dear Jason

At the end of Was the Garden of Eden at the North Pole? you wrote incorrectly that Raymond Bernard (Walter Siegmeister) was responsible for ideas like flying saucers originating from the interior of the Earth and a new master race. Bernard was only reporting the “teachings” of the leader of a very weird cult.

“The idea [of the subterranean origin of the flying saucers] was first put forward by professor Henrique José de Souza, president of the Brazilian Theosophical Society, which has its headquarters in São Lourenço in the State of Minas Gerais”.

Bernard, R. The Hollow Earth, chapter 7. <www.bibliotecapleyades.net/tierra_hueca/tierrahueca/Chapter7-1.htm>.

Souza was unknowingly reviving an idea first proposed by Shaver & Palmer in the 1940s. Keel, John A. The Man Who Invented Flying Saucers. <www.softcom.net/users/falconkam/manwho.html>.

Please correct my poor English. Thank you.


Julio Cesar
M.A. History of Ideas, São Paulo State University, Brazil

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Jason Colavito link
2/7/2014 10:14:26 am

I did not mean to imply that he invented the claims about UFOs (indeed, as you note, they are Theosophical in origin), only that he discussed them in his book in conjunction with Warren's work and the silly idea about Santa Claus.

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Julio Cesar Assis
2/7/2014 09:50:05 pm

It would be better to fix it because it is the second serious author writing something similar:

"Siegmeister wrote as 'Raymond Bernard" on the hollow earth, UFOs, underground realms in South América, and many other topics: he is probably responsible for the idea that Aghartta (he spells it Agharta) is the interior of the globe, where the flying saucers come from".

Goodwin, Joscelyn. The Polar Myth, p. 93.

Gary
2/7/2014 03:27:50 pm

Agriculture started somewhere in the Tigris/Euphrates region and so was where the transition from hunter/gatherer to having domesticated plants and animals occurred. I think that the story of Eden is from a memory of the time when we ran free and the food was plentiful, (as it actually was at one time) and what happened when we had to resort to other dependable means. It's remembered as the good-old-days, trouble free, before we had to live by the sweat of our brows. It has been shown that the first agriculturists were not as well nourished as the ones who lived before, so the transition was hard. I think that the experience lived on in folklore. I could go farther and speculate that the forbidden knowledge of the gods was the domestication and control of the plants and animals that their ancestors didn't have, and led to the "expulsion" from their paradise.

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jad
2/8/2014 12:23:59 am

the Angel holds a flaming sword as the ancestral pair must depart from the lush Garden. if not the Fertile Crescent, think Sahara near the Great Rift Valley given that stark areas now negate "Prester John" but were once lush & like a network of gardens as in an oasis. A sword implies metallurgy, literacy
creates a new mind- frame as a domestication of plants and
animals creates a new dependency on social structure & order.

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michael seabook link
6/13/2014 12:00:23 pm

http://www.grahamhancock.com/phorum/read.php?f=1&i=228225&t=228225

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exo
3/18/2022 09:37:19 pm

Read Jubilees chapter 8, it points to where the garden of eden is located.
https://www.sefaria.org/Book_of_Jubilees.8.2?ven=The_Book_of_Jubilees,_trans._R._H._Charles._London_[1917]&vhe=Book_of_Jubilees,_Vienna_1870,_Wikisource&lang=en

Here's a video referencing the Jubilees chapter 8: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhObIBABSyw

Here's another article comparing other articles about the same subject matter: https://mystery921886015.wordpress.com/2018/04/17/the-journey-begins/?msclkid=359ee8a0a71311ec99ce74e1da3d31f2

Hope that helps you some.

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