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... four rivers . The Chinese crown Kuen - Lun with a paradise . In Iranian myth , the mountain Haraberezaiti links heaven and earth . The Greeks wrote of the golden age , the garden of Alcinous , the Elysian Fields , and of the sorrows ...
... four rivers . The Chinese crown Kuen - Lun with a paradise . In Iranian myth , the mountain Haraberezaiti links heaven and earth . The Greeks wrote of the golden age , the garden of Alcinous , the Elysian Fields , and of the sorrows ...
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... four rivers , the tree of life inhabited by the serpent and guarded by griffins and whirling swords , the loss of immortality through the serpent's cunning , and the seduction of the archetypal man by the mother - goddess who induces ...
... four rivers , the tree of life inhabited by the serpent and guarded by griffins and whirling swords , the loss of immortality through the serpent's cunning , and the seduction of the archetypal man by the mother - goddess who induces ...
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... four rivers as one of the latest additions to the account in Genesis 2 and 3.3 In composing this narrative , the Yahwist writers , Milton's most important source and strikingly like Milton himself , were re- working old stories in a new ...
... four rivers as one of the latest additions to the account in Genesis 2 and 3.3 In composing this narrative , the Yahwist writers , Milton's most important source and strikingly like Milton himself , were re- working old stories in a new ...
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... four streams flowing from it , is at least one source for the idea of the ... river , is also de- scribed in Gilgamesh , and the Babylonian sacred groves where ... rivers was patterned after the Milky Way with its branches , and Ezekiel's ...
... four streams flowing from it , is at least one source for the idea of the ... river , is also de- scribed in Gilgamesh , and the Babylonian sacred groves where ... rivers was patterned after the Milky Way with its branches , and Ezekiel's ...
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Contents
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9 | |
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3 THE EARLY CHRISTIAN ERA | 38 |
4 THE MIDDLE AGES | 67 |
5 THE HISTORICAL PARADISE OF THE RENAISSANCE | 89 |
6 THE LEGACY OF EDEN | 125 |
7 THE SEARCH FOR PARADISE | 188 |
8 THE NATURAL PARADISE THE CELESTIAL PARADISE AND THE INNER PARADISE | 234 |
9 THE FADING OF PARADISE | 269 |
NOTES | 291 |
INDEX | 319 |
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