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by William F. Warren
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The location of the Garden of Eden should be one of those unanswerable questions, such as 'what song did the sirens sing?' This has not stopped speculation on the topic. Some of these works treat Eden as a metaphor for the human body, such as this text. Others were much more literal. William Warren wrote this 500 page tome to propose a polar Eden, in some primeval ice-free epoch. He systematically employs data from contemporary geology, ethnology, zoology, botany and paleontology to bolster this argument.
In the 19th century, polar explorers had yet to fill in the blanks on the maps at the poles, and geologists had yet to discover plate tectonics, or create detailed maps of paleogeography. We now know that the last time that the poles were ice-free was long before humans walked the earth. In addition, there is no northern polar continent, and probably never has been. However, recently one author (Out of Antarctica, Robert Argod, ISBN 1902699459) has proposed that humans originated in Antarctica, and migrated north. He uses much the same collection of data as Warren, although he leans very heavily on a hypothetical pole shift, which Warren did not.
The argument of this book is obviously moot, and much of the hard scientific data is either misinterpreted or obsolete. However, Warren's review of the literature of the folklore of the world-mountain, the tree of life, and the earthly paradise is of continuing value, and worth reading if you have any interest in the mysteries of our past.
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PARADISE FOUND
THE CRADLE OF THE HUMAN RACE AT THE NORTH POLE
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Frontispiece: DIAGRAM ILLUSTRATING THE TRUE KEY TO ANCIENT COSMOLOGY AND MYTHICAL GEOGRAPHY.
Compare p. 479.
A. The Northern celestial Pole in the zenith.
A B. The axis of the heavens in perpendicular position.
C D. The axis of the Earth in perpendicular position.
I I I I. The abode of the supreme God, or gods.
2, 3, 4. Europe, Asia, and the known portion of Africa.
5 5 5. The Earth-surrounding equatorial Ocean-river.
6 6 6. The abode of disembodied human souls.
7 7 7 7. The abode of demons.
C. Location of submerged Eden.
C A. "The Strength of the Hill of Sion"
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PARADISE FOUND
THE CRADLE OF THE HUMAN RACE AT THE NORTH POLE
A Study of the Prehistoric World
BY
WILLIAM F. WARREN, S. T. D., LL. D.
PRESIDENT OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY, CORPORATE MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY, AUTHOR OF "ANFANGSGRÜNDE DER LOGIK," "EINLEITUNG IN DIE SYSTEMATISCHE THEOLOGIE," "THE TRUE KEY TO ANCIENT COSMOLOGY AND MYTHICAL GEOGRAPHY," ETC., ETC.
WITH ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS
SIXTH EDITION
BOSTON
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
New York: 11 East Seventeenth Street
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
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The Riverside Press, Cambridge:
Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton and Company.
p. v
RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED,
WITH FRIENDLY PERMISSION,
TO
PROFESSOR F. MAX MÜLLER,
OF
THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.
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p. vii
PREFACE.
This book is not the work of a dreamer. Neither has it proceeded from a love of learned paradox. Nor yet is it a cunningly devised fable aimed at particular tendencies in current science, philosophy, or religion. It is a thoroughly serious and sincere attempt to present what is to the author's mind the true and final solution of one of the greatest and most fascinating of all problems connected with the history of mankind.
That this true solution has not been furnished before is not strange. The suggestion that primitive Eden was at the Arctic Pole seems at first sight the most incredible of all wild and willful paradoxes. And it is only within the lifetime of our own generation that the progress of geological discovery has relieved the hypothesis of fatal antecedent improbability. Moreover, when one considers the enormous variety and breadth of the fields from which its evidences of truth must be derived; when one remembers how recent are those comparative sciences on whose results the argument must chiefly depend; when one observes that many of the most striking of our alleged proofs, both in
p. viii
the physical and in the anthropological domain, are precisely the latest of the conclusions -of these most modern of all sciences,—it is easy to see that a generation ago the demonstration here attempted could not have been given. Even five years ago some of the most interesting and cogent of our arguments would as yet have been lacking.
The interest which has so long invested our problem, and which has prompted so many attempts to solve it, was never greater than to-day. The lapse of centuries has rendered many another question antiquated, but not this. On the contrary, the more the modern world has advanced in new knowledge, the more exigent has grown the necessity of finding a valid solution. Men are feeling as never before that until the starting-point of human history can be determined, the historian, the archæologist, and the paleontological anthropologist are all working in the dark. It is seen that without this desideratum the ethnologist, the philologist, the mythographer, the theologian, the sociologist can none of them construct anything not liable to profound modification, if not to utter overthrow, the moment any new light shall be thrown upon the mother-region and the prehistoric movements of the human race. Every anthropological science, therefore, and every science related to anthropology, seems at the present moment to be standing in a state of dubitant expectancy, willing to work a little tentatively, but conscious of
p. ix
its destitution of the needful primal datum, and conscious of its consequent lack of a valid structural law.
To the believer in Revelation, or even in the most ancient and venerable Ethnic Traditions, the volume here presented will be found to possess uncommon interest. For many years the public mind has been schooled in a narrow naturalism, which has in its world-view as little room for the extraordinary as it has for the supernatural. Decade after decade the representatives of this teaching have been measuring the natural phenomena of every age and of every place by the petty measuring rod of their own local and temporary experience. So long and so successfully have they dogmatized on the constancy of Nature's laws and the uniformity of Nature's forces that of late it has required no small degree of courage to enable an intelligent man to stand up in the face of his generation and avow his personal faith in the early existence of men of gigantic stature and of almost millenarian longevity. Especially have clergymen and Christian teachers and writers upon Biblical history been embarrassed by the popular incredulity on these subjects, and not infrequently by a consciousness that this incredulity was in some measure shared by themselves. To all such, and indeed to all the broader minded among the naturalists themselves, a new philosophy of primeval history—a philosophy which for all the alleged extraordinary
p. x
effects provides the adequate extraordinary causes—cannot fail to prove most welcome.
The execution of the plan of the book is by no means all that the author could desire. To the elaboration of so vast an argument, the materials for which must be gleaned from every possible field of knowledge, the broadest and profoundest scholar might well devote the undistracted labor of a lifetime. To the writer, loaded with the cares of a laborious executive office, there were lacking both the leisure and the equipment otherwise attainable for so high a task. The best he could do was to turn one or two summer vacations into work-time and give the result to the world. Of the correctness of his position he has no doubt, and of the preparedness of the scientific world to accept it he is also confident.
To the foregoing remarks it may be proper to add that apart from its immediate purpose the book has interest, and, it is hoped, value as a contribution to the infant science of Comparative Mythology. By the application of the author's "True Key to Ancient Cosmology and Mythical Geography," it has been possible to adjust and interpret a great variety of ancient cosmological and geographical notions never before understood by modern scholars. For example, the origin and significance of the Chinvat Bridge are here for the first time explained. The indication of the polocentric character common to the mythical systems of sacred geography
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among all ancient peoples will probably be new to every reader. The new light thrown upon such questions as those relating to the direction of the Sacred Quarter, the location of the Abode of the Dead, the character and position of the Cosmical Tree, the course of the backward-flowing Ocean-river, the correlation of the "Navels" of Earth and Heaven,—not to enumerate other points,—can hardly fail to attract the lively attention of all students and teachers of ancient mythology and mythical geography.
To teachers of Homer the fresh contributions toward a right understanding of Homeric cosmology are sure to prove of value. And if, in the end, the work may only lead to a systematic and intelligent teaching of the long neglected, but most important science of ancient cosmology and mythical geography in all reputable universities and classical schools, it will surely not have been written in vain.
That the author has escaped all errors and oversights while ranging through so numerous and such diverse fields of investigation, many of which are but just opened to the pioneering specialist, is too much to expect. He only asks that any such blemishes which a more competent scholarship may detect, or which the progress of new learning may yet bring to light, may not be allowed to prejudice the force of true arguments, but may be pointed out in the spirit of a candid and helpful criticism.
In conclusion, the author respectfully commits
p. xii
his work to all truth-seeking spirits,—not less to the patient investigators of nature than to the students of history, of literature, and of religion. Particularly would he commend it to all those yearning and waiting Königssöhnen whose experience has been described by Hans Andersen in the words, "Es war einmal ein Königssohn; Niemand hatte so viele und schöne Bücher wie er; Alles, was in dieser Welt geschehen, konnte er darin lesen, und die Abbildungen in prächtigen Kupferstichen erblicken. Von jedem Volke und jedem Lande konnte er Auskunft erhalten; aber wo der Garten des Paradieses zu finden sei, davon stand kein Wort darin; und der, gerade der war es, an dem er am meisten dachte." 1
W. F. W.
Boston.
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xii:1 The same, being interpreted, read as follows: "Once upon a time there was a king's son; nobody had so many and such beautiful books as he. In these all that had ever happened in the world he could read and see depicted in splendid engravings. Of every people and of every land could he get information, but as to where the Garden of Eden was,—not a word was to be found therein; and this, just this it was, on which he meditated most of all."
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p. xiii
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Page
DEDICATION
v
PREFACE
viii
PART FIRST.
THE LOCATION OF EDEN: STATE OF THE QUESTION.
CHAPTER I.
THE RESULTS OF EXPLORERS, HISTORIC AND LEGENDARY.
Columbus approaching the gate
3
The report of Sir John de Maundeville
7
Adventures of Prince Eirek
10
The voyages of St. Brandan and of Oger
12
The success of the author of The Book of Enoch
20
An equestrian's anticipations
21
David Livingstone a searcher for Eden
22
Unanimous verdict: Non est inventus
22
CHAPTER II.
THE RESULTS OF THEOLOGIANS.
Ideas of the church fathers
23
Opinions of Luther and of Calvin
25
Contemporary opinion entirely conflicting
25
Inconclusive character of the Biblical data
26
The garden "eastward"
27
The "Euphrates"
28
The problem "unsolved if not insoluble"
32
p. xiv
CHAPTER III.
THE RESULTS OF NON-THEOLOGICAL SCHOLARS: NATURALISTS, ETHNOLOGISTS, ETC.
The unity of the human species
33
But one "mother-region"
33
Its location—ten different answers
35
Views of Darwin, Häckel, Peschel, etc.
35
Views of Quatrefages, Obry, etc.
36
Locations of lost Atlantis
38
Theory of Friedrich Delitzsch
39
Theory of E. Beauvois
41
Theory of Gerald Massey
42
The Utopians
43
Despair of a solution
43
PART SECOND.
A FRESH HYPOTHESIS: PRIMITIVE EDEN AT THE NORTH POLE.
CHAPTER I.
THE HYPOTHESIS, AND THE CONDITIONS OF ITS ADMISSIBILITY.
Statement of the hypothesis
47
Seven sciences to be satisfied
48
CHAPTER II.
IMPORTANT NEW FEATURES AT ONCE INTRODUCED INTO THE PROBLEM OF THE SITE OF EDEN AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THESE FOR A VALID SOLUTION.
Seven peculiarities of a polar Eden
50
Our hypothesis consequently most difficult
53
Its certain break-down if not true
53
PART THIRD.
THE HYPOTHESIS SCIENTIFICALLY TESTED AND CONFIRMED.
CHAPTER I.
THE TESTIMONY OF SCIENTIFIC GEOGONY.
Popular prepossessions
57
Secular refrigeration of the earth
57
p. xv
Inevitable implications of the doctrine
58
Bearing of these upon our problem
59
CHAPTER II.
THE TESTIMONY OF ASTRONOMICAL GEOGRAPHY.
Length of the polar day
60
Mistakes of Geikie and Lyell
60
The actual duration of daylight
61
Experience of Weyprecht and Payer
62
Experience of Barentz
63
Citation from Baron Nordenskjöld
63
The statement of Captain Pim
64
The explanation of discrepancies
65
A safe settlement of the question
66
The polar night
68
Aspects and progress of the polar day
69
A paradisaic abode
70
CHAPTER III.
THE TESTIMONY OF PHYSIOGRAPHICAL GEOLOGY.
A primitive circumpolar continent
71
Anticipated by Klee
71
Speculations of Wallace
72
Postulated by Professor Heer
73
Also by Baron Nordenskjöld
73
Testimony of Starkie Gardner
74
Testimony of Geikie
74
Theories as to its submergence
75
Adhémar's theory
75
Theory of tidal action
75
Leibnitz's theory of crust-collapse
79
Summary of evidence under this head
82
CHAPTER IV.
THE TESTIMONY OF PREHISTORIC CLIMATOLOGY.
Primeval temperature at the Pole
83
The evidence of scientific geogony
84
The evidence of paleontological botany
84
Testimony of life-history
85
Estimates of Professor Heer
85
Declaration of Sir Charles Lyell
86
Conclusion
86
p. xvi
CHAPTER V.
THE TESTIMONY OF PALEONTOLOGICAL BOTANY.
The starting-point of all floral types
87
A remarkable recent discovery
87
Sir Joseph ****
88
The contribution of Heer
89
Of Professor Asa Gray
90
The claim of Count Saporta
90
The conclusions of Otto Kuntze
92
CHAPTER VI.
THE TESTIMONY OF PALEONTOLOGICAL ZOÖLOGY.
Geographical distribution of animals
93
First remarkable fact
93
Second remarkable fact
94
Language of Professor Orton
94
Language of Professor Packard
94
Mr. Alfred Russel Wallace cited
95
Conclusion
95
CHAPTER VII.
THE TESTIMONY OF PALEONTOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND GENERAL ETHNOLOGY.
One traveler who has been in Eden
97
His note-books lost
97
What says Paléoethnique science?
97
The first conclusions of Quatrefages
98
His premonitions of a new doctrine
98
Count Saporta's conclusions
99
F. Müller and M. Wagner's views
100
Anthropogony by virtue of ice and cold
100
An unacceptable theory
101
CHAPTER VIII.
CONCLUSION OF PART THIRD.
A word from Principal Dawson
102
Summary of results thus far
102
An unexpected reinforcement
103
"Where did Life Begin?"
103
Confirmatory extracts
104
p. xvii
PART FOURTH.
THE HYPOTHESIS CONFIRMED BY ETHNIC TRADITION.
CHAPTER I.
ANCIENT COSMOLOGY AND MYTHICAL GEOGRAPHY.
The mistaken modern assumption
117
The "True Key"
120
General statement
121
The "Mountain of the World"
123
The same in Egyptian Mythology
124
In the Akkadian, Assyrian, and Babylonian
126
In the Chinese
128
Lithe Indo-Aryan
129
In the Buddhistic
131
In the Iranian
133
In the Greek and Roman
135
The Underworld
137
Cautions as to interpretation
137
The chorography of Christian hymns
138
CHAPTER II.
THE CRADLE OF THE RACE IN ANCIENT JAPANESE THOUGHT.
The most ancient Japanese book
140
Japanese cosmogony
140
Izanagi's spear
140
"The Island of the Congealed Drop"
141
Sir Edward Reed places it at the Pole
141
Mr. Griffis reaches the same conclusion
141
CHAPTER III.
THE CRADLE OF THE RACE IN CHINESE THOUGHT.
The Tauist paradise
143
Descriptions
143
The stupendous world-pillar
144
Connects the terrestrial and celestial paradises
145
Same idea in the Talmud
145
"The Strength of the Hill of Sion"
145
Shang-te's upper and lower palaces
146
At the celestial and terrestrial Poles
146
p. xviii
CHAPTER IV.
THE CRADLE OF THE RACE IN EAST ARYAN OR HINDU THOUGHT.
The world of the Brahmans
148
The abode of Yama
149
The varshas of the upper world
150
The northward journey to Mount Meru
150
The descent to Uttarakuru
151
Illustrations of the Puranic world
151
Ilâvrita, the Hindu's Eden
151
Its north polar position
151
Lenormant's language
151
Ritter's unwitting testimony
154
"The polar region is Meru"
154
"Meru the Garden of the Tree of Life"
154
CHAPTER V.
THE CRADLE OF THE RACE IN IRANIAN OR OLD-PERSIAN THOUGHT.
The primitive pair and their abode
155
Key to the Iranian cosmography
155
The Chinvat Bridge
155
Current misinterpretations
156
Twelve questions answered
156
True nature of the bridge
158
Its position
158
Position of Kvanîras
158
The mythic geography of the Persians
159
Diagram of the Keshvares
159
Polar position of "Iran the Ancient"
161
CHAPTER VI.
THE CRADLE OF THE RACE IN AKKADIAN, ASSYRIAN, AND BABYLONIAN THOUGHT.
The sacred mountain
163
Chaldæan cosmology
163
Lenormant's exposition
163
Three inconsistencies
165
Location of the world-mountain
166
Lenormant's difficulties
166
The true solution
168
Two Akkads
168
The mount of the Underworld
169
It determines the site of Kharsak
170
And this the site of the Akkadian Eden
171
p. xix
CHAPTER VII.
THE CRADLE OF THE RACE IN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN THOUGHT.
Underestimates of Egyptian science
172
Six theses in Egyptian cosmology
173
Its earth a sphere
174
Northern and southern termini
174
Four supports of heaven at the North
174
A parallel in Buddhist cosmology
175
The southern hemisphere the Underworld
176
The highest North the abode of the gods
179
An interesting hieroglyph
179
Plato's Egyptian Eden-story
181
CHAPTER VIII.
THE CRADLE OF THE RACE IN ANCIENT GREEK THOUGHT
Supposed discrepancies of tradition
182
Possible agreement
182
A reminiscence of Mount Meru
183
Renan and Lenormant
183
Lost Atlantis
184
Deukalion, a man of the North
186
The Isles of Kronos
187
The Golden Age
187
Wolfgang Menzel's verdict
187
Conclusion and transition
187
PART FIFTH.
FURTHER VERIFICATIONS OF THE HYPOTHESIS BASED UPON A STUDY OF THE PECULIARITIES OF A POLAR PARADISE.
CHAPTER I.
THE EDEN STARS.
Stellar motion at the Pole
191
Has tradition any reminiscence of such?
191
The strange doctrine of Anaxagoras
191
Chaldæan and Egyptian traditions
193
A natural explanation
194
The myth of Phaëthon
195
Iranian and Aztec traditions
196
Result
196
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CHAPTER II.
THE EDEN DAY.
Length of day at the Pole
197
Sunrise in the South
197
The tradition of the Northmen
199
The tradition of the ancient Persians
197
The tradition of the East Aryans
198
The year-day of Homer
200
The tradition of the Navajos
201
CHAPTER III.
THE EDEN ZENITH.
The polar zenith is the Pole
202
This the true heaven of the first men
202
The Hebrew conception
203
The Egyptian conception
208
The Akkadian conception
209
The Assyrio-Babylonian conception
209
The Sabæan conception
210
The Vedic conception
210
The Buddhistic conception
211
The Phœnician conception
212
The Greek conception
212
The Etruscan and Roman conception
213
The Japanese conception
215
The Chinese conception
215
The ancient Germanic conception
217
The ancient Finnic conception
218
How came the Biblical Eden to be in the East?
219
Solution of the problem
219
Confirmations and illustrations
222
CHAPTER IV.
THE NAVEL OF THE EARTH.
Prevalence of the expression
225
Its symbolical and commemorative character
228
The Jerusalem earth-centre
234
That of the Greeks
234
That of the Babylonians
239
That of the Hindus
240
p. xxi
That of the Persians
243
That of the Chinese
244
That of the Japanese
245
That of the Northmen
246
That of the Mexicans
246
That of the Peruvians and others
247
Result
248
CHAPTER V.
THE QUADRIFURCATE RIVER.
Origin and nature of this river
250
Sacred hydrography of the Persians
251
All waters have one headspring
251
Also one place of discharge
251
Exposition of the system
252
Similar ideas among the Greeks
254
The Vedic system
257
The Puranic
259
Traces in Christian legend
260
CHAPTER VI.
THE CENTRAL TREE.
The tree in the midst of the garden
262
Were there two?
262
Its inevitable significance if at the North Pole
263
The Yggdrasil of the Northmen
264
The World-tree of the Akkadians
264
The Tat-pillar of the Egyptians
265
The Winged Oak of the Phœnicians
266
The White Hôm of the Persians
267
The cosmic Aśvattha of the Hindus
269
The holy Palm of the Greeks
270
The Bodhi tree of the Buddhists
271
The Irmensul of the Saxons
272
The Arbre Sec of the Middle Ages
273
The Tong of the Chinese
274
The World-reed of the Navajos
274
The Apple-tree of Avalon
276
The star-bearing World-tree of the Finns
276
p. xxii
CHAPTER VII.
THE EXUBERANCE OF LIFE.
Ethnic traditions of the Earth's deterioration
279
Also of the deterioration of mankind
281
Stature and longevity of primeval men
281
All credible on our hypothesis
284
Language of Professor Nicholson
285
A citation from Figuier
285
The gigantic Sequoia of Arctic origin
286
Animal life in the Tertiary period
289
Primitive forms by no means monstrosities
294
All this wealth of fauna from the North
297
CHAPTER VIII.
REVIEW OF THE ARGUMENT.
Nature of the argument
300
Seven tests applicable to any location
300
Seven others peculiar to a location at the Pole
300
A double demonstration
301
Bailly's approximation to the truth
303
Another independent line of evidence
303
Philosophy of previous failures
304
Philosophy of mediæval confusion
304
Patristic descriptions made plain
305
The world of Cosmas Indicopleustes
305
The world of Columbus
306
The world of Dante
307
How highest heaven came to be under foot
309
PART SIXTH.
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF OUR RESULTS.
CHAPTER I.
THEIR BEARING UPON THE STUDY OF BIOLOGY AND TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS.
The sciences immediately affected
313
The services of biology to archæology
314
The services of archæology to biology
314
Narrowness of many biologists
315
Evils thereof
315
The true corrective
317
The latest generalization of paleontology
317
Anticipated in two Persian myths
317
Terrestrial life-gamut of the Hindus
319
Its lesson to students of the Origin of Life
319
Extraordinary biological conditions
320
Most favorable of all at the Poles
320
Biological superiority of the North Pole
321
Reasons to be more fully investigated
322
Heightened fascination of polar exploration
325
CHAPTER II.
THE BEARING OF OUR RESULTS ON THE STUDY OF ANCIENT LITERATURE.
Darwin's primeval man
326
His discovery of the sky
327
And of trees of infinite height
327
The "short memories" of Vedic worshipers
327
Their ocean-producing imaginations
328
Bunbury on Homeric science
328
Exegetical distortions of ancient thought
328
Homer's cosmology re-expounded
329
First, as to the movement of the sun
329
Second, as to the location of Hades
332
Third, as to .the cosmic water-system
333
Fourth, as to the Olympos of the gods
338
Fifth, as to the tall pillars of Atlas
350
The exegetical method dictated by our results
359
Its fruitfulness in the future
360
CHAPTER III.
THE BEARING OF OUR RESULTS ON THE PROBLEM OF THE ORIGIN AND EARLIEST FORM OF RELIGION.
The pan-ethnic account
363
Hume's dissent
364
The doctrine of Comte
369
Miller's refutation of primitive fetichism
370
Sir John Lubbock's scheme
372
Refutation by Roskoff and others
375
Caspari's theory
375
The theory of Jules Baissac
382
p. xxiv
Current approximations of teaching
385
As to the origin of the arts
386
As to intellectual powers of the first men
386
As to their super-fetichistic attitude
390
As to their monogamous family form
392
As to their capacity for monotheism
397
Seven conclusion
403
CHAPTER IV.
THE BEARING OF OUR. RESULTS ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY AND ON THE THEORY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF CIVILIZATION.
The apostles of primeval savagery
407
Their doctrine
407
Sub-savage stupidity of the first men
408
Dr. Wilhelm Mannhardt's representation
409
A most important primitive discovery
410
Daphne not a tree
410
Emphatic demand for antediluvian longevity
410
The new Babel
411
Nine memoranda
411
Primeval human history
418
The ancient ethnic view Biblical and true
419
Plato's antediluvian age
420
The consensus of all ancient religions
422
The "Stone Age" in the light of our results
422
Origin of postdiluvian laws and states
423
An imaginary conversation
424
A pagan testimony
432
To those who hear not Moses and the Prophet's
432
Conclusion
432
APPENDIX.
I. The Earth of Columbus not a True Sphere
435
II. How the Earth was Peopled
437
III. Reception of "The True Key"
450
IV. The Earth and World of the Hindus
459
V. The World-Pillar of the Rig Veda
465
VI. Homer's Abode of the Dead
467
VII. Latest Polar Research
487
VIII. Trustworthiness of Early Tradition
492
IX. Index of Authors cited
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X. Index to the Work
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ILLUSTRATIONS.
Key to Ancient Cosmology
Frontispiece.
Night Skies of Eden
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The Antipodal Polar Mountains
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The Earth of the Hindus. No. I.
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The Earth of the Hindus. No. II.
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The Earth of the Persians
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The Navel of the Earth
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The Earth of Columbus
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The Earth of Dante
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The World of Homer
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PART FIRST.
LOCATION OF EDEN: STATE OF THE QUESTION.
CHAP.
I.
RESULTS OF THE EXPLORERS, HISTORIC AND LEGENDARY.
II.
RESULTS OF THE THEOLOGIANS.
III.
RESULTS OF NON-THEOLOGICAL SCHOLARS: NATURALISTS, ETHNOLOGISTS, ARCHÆOLOGISTS, etc.
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You shall understand that no mortal may approach to that Paradise; for by land no man may go, for wild beasts that are in the deserts, and for the high mountains and great huge rocks that no man may pass by for the dark places that are there; and by the rivers may no man go, for the water runs so roughly and so sharply, because it comes down so outrageously from the high places above, that it runs in so great waves that no ship may row or sail against it; and the water roars so, and makes so huge a noise, and so great a tempest, that no man may hear another in the ship though he cried with all the might he could. Many great lords have assayed with great will many times to pass by those rivers towards Paradise, with full great companies; but they might not speed in their voyage; and many died for weariness of rowing against the strong waves; and many of them became blind, and many deaf, from the noise of the water; and some perished and were lost in the waves; so that no mortal man may approach to that place without the special grace of God.—Sir John de Maundeville.
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CHAPTER I.
THE RESULTS OF EXPLORERS, HISTORIC AND LEGENDARY.
Man lernt die Welt am besten durch Reisen kennen.
K. H. W. VÖLCKER.
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. 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!
It is his third voyage. He is in the Gulf of Paria to the north or north-west of the mouth of the Orinoco. In his loyal epistle to Ferdinand and Isabella thus he writes:—
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
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[paragraph continues] Ganges in India, the Tigris and Euphrates, and the Nile.
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. 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. Some pagans pretended to adduce arguments to establish that it was in the Fortunate Islands, now called the Canaries.
St. Isidore, Bede, and Strabo 1 and the Master of scholastic history, 2 with St. Ambrose and Scotus, and all the learned theologians agree that the earthly Paradise is in the East.
I have already described my ideas concerning this hemisphere and its form, 3 and I have no doubt that if I could pass below the equinoctial line after reaching the highest point of which I have spoken, I should find a much milder temperature and a variation in the stars and in the water: not that I suppose that elevated point to be navigable, nor even that there is water there; indeed, I believe it is impossible to ascend thither, because I am convinced that it is the spot of the earthly Paradise, whither no one can go but by God's permission; but this land which your Highnesses have now sent me to explore is very extensive, and I think there are many other countries in the south, of which the world has never had any knowledge.
I do not suppose that the earthly Paradise is in the form of a rugged mountain, as the descriptions of it have made it appear, but that it is on the summit of the spot
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which I have described as being in the form of the stalk [or stem end] of a pear; the approach to it from a distance must be by a constant and gradual ascent; but I believe that, as I have already said, no one could ever reach the top; I think also that the water I have described may proceed from it, though it be far off, and that stopping at the place I have just left, it forms this lake.
There are great indications of this being the terrestrial Paradise, for its situation coincides with the opinions of the holy and wise theologians whom I have mentioned; and, moreover, the other evidences agree with the supposition, for I have never either read or heard of fresh water coming in so large a quantity, in close conjunction with the water of the sea; the idea is also corroborated by the blandness of the temperature; and if the water of which I speak does not proceed from the earthly Paradise, it seems to be a still greater wonder, for I do not believe that there is any river in the world so large and deep.
When I left the Dragon's Mouth, which is the northernmost of the two straits which I have described, and which I so named on the day of our lady of August, 1 I found that the sea ran so strongly to the westward that between the hour of mass, 2 when I weighed anchor, and the hour of complines 3 I made sixty-five leagues of four miles each; and not only was the wind not violent, but on the contrary very gentle, which confirmed me in the conclusion that in sailing southward there is a continuous ascent, while there is a corresponding descent towards the north.
I hold it for certain that the waters of the sea move from east to west with the sky, and that in passing this track they hold to a more rapid course, and have thus eaten away large tracts of land, and hence has resulted this great number of islands; indeed, these islands themselves
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