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	Wikipedia: Garden of Eden
		This word is Persian in origin and it means a large a pleasant tract of land.
		The term Eden is Sumerian via Hebrew and is derived from the term Edinu.
		Edinu was a garden with had a similar role in Sumerian mythology.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/g/ga/garden_of_eden.html (289 words)

	CBS News \| 'Finding God In The Garden' \| September 12, 2002 10:10:32
		Linguistic scholars tell us that while the Hebrew word eden means "delight," the word actually derives from the language of a Middle Eastern civilization, the Sumerians, who predated the Hebrews in that part of the world by some 1500 years.
		We find in their vocabulary the word edinu, meaning "steppe" or "plain." So Eden, a diminutive or corruption of edinu, might have been a plain or steppe nestled somewhere between the two great life-giving rivers of the Middle East, the Tigris and Euphrates, the possible sources of our garden's water.
		By the time the Hebrews appeared on the scene, the phrase "Garden of Eden" came to signify some mythical afterdeath place for the righteous, and it lost all geographic meaning.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2002/09/05/earlyshow/leisure/books/main520955.shtml (1316 words)

	EdensTreeofKnowledgeLife
		That is to say, it is AFTER having eaten of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge that they THEN engage in sexual intercourse, which recalls somewhat what happen to Inanna, she eating of a Cedar and Cyrpress tree to acquire sexual knowledge.
		In the Epic of Gilgamesh the wild hairy man of the Steppe (Sumerian: edin, Akkadian: edinu) called Enkidu, has SEX with a priestess called Shamhat, who disrobes near a watering hole visited by him and his animal companions.
		The shepherd's camp is apparently in the high steppe called edin in Sumerian and edinu in Akkadian, so the naked primitive man eats food intended originally for gods and not for animals.
	www.bibleorigins.net /EdensTreeofKnowledgeLife.html (10171 words)

	IBSS - Biblical Archaeology - Garden of Eden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Gihon would then be identified with the Karun river in Elam.
		Some think the Hebrew word "Eden" is from the Sumerian word "edin" meaning "plain" and its Akkadian equivalent is edinu (Fischer 1996, 223) which refers to the land between the Trigris and Euphrates Rivers.
		Other scholars equate the garden of Eden with the similar description of ancient Dilmun.
	www.bibleandscience.com /archaeology/eden.htm (392 words)

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		The Adam and Eve story is related to an ancient Sumerian and Babylonian myth.
		The goddess Ninhursag creates a beautiful lush garden called Edinu full of wonderful fruit-bearing trees as her refuge.
		One day she must leave to visit An and worries that wild animals might destroy her garden.
	www.suite101.com /print_article.cfm/1417/10529 (495 words)

	Urban Financial Management, A Training Manual
		It is based on a selection of training materials that have been progressively developed over the past several
		The World Bank's Economic Development Institute and held in Colombo, Kuala Lumpur, and Bombay.
		courses were co-directed by EDINU, local training institutions (including the Ministry of Local Government,
	www.worldbank.org /html/fpd/urban/mun_fin/toolkit/training_manual.html (367 words)

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