A Confirmation

of the Rivers of Paradise

Joannes Richter

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Pentagram P Information Definition Language
1. P
PISON P Rivers of Paradise: Pis(h)on, (along with [Pis(h)on] English
FYSON P Hiddekel (Tigris), Phrath (Euphrates) and Fyson Midl-English
Gihon)
2. K
KARUN P Karun, Iran's most effluent and only navigable Karun river English
river. In the Bible: Gihon River, at the Garden of [Gihon River]
Eden near the Persian Gulf, fed by the four rivers
Tigris, Euphrates, Gihon (Karun) and Pishon
(Wadi Al-Batin). The name is derived from the
mountain range named Kuhrang (→ : Karoen)
3. M
Ava MEZIN In Kurdish, the Tigris is known as Ava Mezin, Ava Mezin Kurdish
"the Great Water". [Tigris]
4. F
FIRAT P The name (Euphrates) is YEPRAT in Armenian Firat Turkish
(Եփրատ), PERAT in Hebrew (‫)פרת‬, FIRAT in [Euphrates] Kurdish
Turkish and FIRAT in Kurdish.
5. S
SIFON P Siphon, sifon, syphon- from Ancient Greek ; σίφων Ancient Greek
SIPhON P σίφων (síphōn, "pipe, tube for drawing wine from sifon Old French
SYPhON P a cask"), of uncertain origin; siphon English

Table 1 The Rivers of Paradise: FIRAT (Euphrates), Ava MEZIN (Tigris). PISON (Pishon) &
KARUN (Gihon)

Abstract
Composing a recent essay A new Etymology for the Pentagrams (PITAR and MATIR) I identified
three possible pentagrams (PISON, KARUN and FIRAT) in the names for the Rivers of Paradise
(sorted according to the list in the Book Genesis):
(1) the Pison and (2) Gihon, (3) the Hiddekel (Tigris), and (4) the Phrath (Euphrates)
Of course I knew there was a chance that all four rivers may have been composed as genuine
pentagrams.
Only the Tigris needed to be traced back to an original pentagram for its name, which was to be
found in the Kurdish name Ava MEZIN "the Great Water".
The pentagrams clearly confirm Juris Zarins' description including Dora Jane Hamblin's map of the
rivers. Of course Juris Zarins' thesis also supports the thesis of the pentagrams.
The Rivers of Paradise
In the King James Version (KJV) the text of the Genesis 2:10-14 lists the Rivers of Paradise as
follows:
2:10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became
into four heads.
2:11 The name of the first is PISON: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where
there is gold;
2:12 And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
2:13 And the name of the second river is GIHON: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of
Ethiopia.
2:14 And the name of the third river is HIDDEKEL: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria.
And the fourth river is EUPHRATES.1

The PISON river

Only the PISON is a genuine pentagram in the English version of the Book Genesis. However the
name-giving of the rivers may be preserved in other languages or their dialects.

The KARUN (the Gihon River)

The Karun (KARUN) is Iran's most effluent and only navigable river. In the Bible: Gihon River, at
the Garden of Eden near the Persian Gulf, fed by the four rivers Tigris, Euphrates, Gihon (Karun)
and Pishon (Wadi Al-Batin). The name is derived from the mountain range named Kuhrang (→ :
Karoen)2.
Juris Zarins and other scholars have identified the Karun as one of the four rivers of Eden, the
others being the Tigris, the Euphrates, and either the Wadi Al-Batin or the Karkheh3.
Juris Zarins4 believes the GIHON is the KARUN River, which rises in Iran and flows
southwesterly toward the present Gulf. The Karun also shows in LANDSAT images and was a
perennial river which, until it was dammed, contributed most of the sediment forming the delta
at the head of the Persian Gulf5.

The Ava MEZIN (the Tigris river)

In Kurdish, the Tigris is known as Ava Mezin, "the Great Water". 6

The FIRAT (Euphrates)

The Euphrates is the longest river of Western Asia.[5].
The name [Euphrates] is YEPRAT in Armenian (Եփրատ), PERAT in Hebrew (‫)פרת‬, FIRAT
in Turkish and FIRAT in Kurdish.7

1 Genesis 2:10-14 King James Version - Bible Gateway; (KJV) (Public Domain)
2 Karun
3 Source: Karun
4 Dr. Juris Zarins, of Southwest Missouri State University in Springfield
5 Has the Garden of Eden been located at last? By Dora Jane Hamblin - First appeared in Smithsonian Magazine,
Volume 18. No. 2, May 1987. Used with permission of Miss Hamblin's sister and executor, Mary H. Ovrom.
December 1, 1997.
6 Source: Etymology in Tigris
7 Euphrates (Etymology)
The map of the Garden of Eden with its pentagrams
A suitable map of these four rivers ( PISON, KARUN, Ava MEZIN, FIRAT ) may be found in Has
the Garden of Eden been located at last? by Dora Jane Hamblin (1920 – 1993). This map also
illustrates the core cities Uruk, Ubaid, Ur and Eridu, which is represented by a pentagram (ERIDU).
Eridu ("confluence" of the rivers) is the first city in the world by the ancient Sumerians.
The Ava MEZIN (Tigris) and FIRAT (Euphrates) are the large rivers to the north. The valleys of the
Wadi RIMAH and the Wadi BATIN (with the bed of the river PISON) and the bed of the river
KARUN (Gihon) join the delta closer to the Persian Gulf. The Garden of Eden may be located (at
the map's green area in the Persian Gulf) under the sea-level near the mouth of the delta.

Fig. 1 Close-up of “The area thought to be the Garden of

Eden”, which was flooded when Gulf waters arose, is
shown in green. (Source: Has the Garden of Eden been
located at last? by Dora Jane Hamblin)

The siphon
Another pentagram, which correlated with PISON, was SIPhON (described as a "pipe, tube for
drawing wine from a cask"). The functionality of the SIPhON as a pipe may be related to the river
PISON.
The symmetry of the pentagrams
At the west-side the symmetry in the categorization of the names FIRAT and PISON of the Rivers
of Paradise is perfect.
At the north-side the categorization requires a switch between the vowels in the names MEZIN and
FIRAT, whereas the categorization's pattern of the consonants remains identical.
In these patterns the name of the river KARUN disturbs the symmetry of the 1 st letter K and the 4th
letter U.

Location River Pentagram 1 2 3 4 5

northwest Euphrates FIRAT F I R A T
southwest Pis(h)on PISON P I S O N

northeast Tigris MEZIN M E Z I N

southeast Gihon KARUN K A R U N
Table 2 The symmetry of the pentagrams
The name of the river Karun (KARUN) may have changed its name. In early classical times the
name was Pasitigris8 or Dujail ("Little Tigris").
In early classical times, the Karun was known as the Pasitigris. The modern medieval
and modern name, Karun, is a corruption of the name Kuhrang, which is still
maintained by one of the two primary tributaries of the Karun. J. G. Lorimer also
records in his Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, Oman and Central Arabia that it was known
by the name "Dujail," which could be translated "Little Tigris" to medieval Arab and
Persian geographers. 9

The advantage of pentagrams allows us to repair deteriorated and lost names. This possibility may
be illustrated by the suggested restoration of the symmetry in the names' architecture.

8 Pasitigris → Plutarch's Lives (Clough) Life of Eumenes in Plutarch's Lives (1859, reprinted 1906)
9 Karun
The Map of the Paradise with the four rivers
One of the best-fit names (instead of KARUN) would be P ASIN as an mutation PASIN-TIGRIS of
the name Pasitigris (or Pasin-Tigris), which would result in a name-giving as follows:

Location River Pentagram 1 2 3 4 5

northwest Euphrates FIRAT F I R A T
southwest Pis(h)on PISON P I S O N

northeast Tigris MEZIN M E Z I N

southeast Gihon P ASIN P A S I N
Table 3 The restoration of the symmetry in the architecture of the pentagrams
FIRAT , Ava MEZIN, PISON, P ASIN

Fig. 2: Map of the Paradise with the 4 additional names

FIRAT , Ava MEZIN, PISON, P ASIN (edited by J. Richter)
(Source: Has the Garden of Eden been located at last?
by Dora Jane Hamblin)
Summary
According to Juris Zarins (and Dora Jane Hamblin) the Garden of Eden is covered with the water of
the Persian Gulf, where the Ava MEZIN (Tigris) and FIRAT (Euphrates) run into the sea. The
Bible's Gihon River would correspond with the KARUN (Karun River) in Iran, and the PISON
(Pishon River) would correspond to the Wadi Batin river system that once drained the now dry, but
once quite fertile central part of the Arabian Peninsula.
Zarins argued that the Garden of Eden was situated at the head of the Persian Gulf,
where the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers run into the sea, from his research on this area
using information from many different sources, including LANDSAT images from
space. In this theory, the Bible's Gihon River would correspond with the Karun River in
Iran, and the Pishon River would correspond to the Wadi Batin river system that once
drained the now dry, but once quite fertile central part of the Arabian Peninsula. His
suggestion about the Pishon River is supported by James A. Sauer (1945–1999)
formerly of the American Center of Oriental Research[10] although strongly criticized
by the archaeological community. 10

The pentagrams clearly confirm Juris Zarins' description including Dora Jane Hamblin's map of the
rivers. Of course Juris Zarins' thesis also supports the thesis of the pentagrams.

QED

10 Source: Juris Zarins

Contents
Abstract.................................................................................................................................................1
The Rivers of Paradise..........................................................................................................................2
The PISON river..............................................................................................................................2
The KARUN (the Gihon River).......................................................................................................2
The Ava MEZIN (the Tigris river) ..................................................................................................2
The FIRAT (Euphrates)....................................................................................................................2
The map of the Garden of Eden with its pentagrams .........................................................................3
The siphon........................................................................................................................................3
The symmetry of the pentagrams.........................................................................................................4
The Map of the Paradise with the four rivers..................................................................................5
Summary...............................................................................................................................................6