Post by 1dell on Jun 25, 2004 6:47:43 GMT -5
Anav~Adamah and I have been doing bible studies. We have started from Genesis 1:1 and are reading thru Torah. We have now reached the flood. One of the things that comes to mind is the Garden of Uden. What happened to it during the flood? Did the garden get ruined? Personally I don't think so because the GArden of Eden in hebrew is Gan Uden. Gan meaning Enclosure. Gan is from the word G'Gan which means to surround. This word alone gives me the idea that this place was enclosed maybe even like one of them scientic bubble cities. So should flood waters come it would look like that city that Ja Ja Binks lived in from Star Wars. I beleive that city was encased in a bubble type of thing.
Which would explain to me how one Kerub could guard the east entrace. Had it been me that was kicked out I would have constantly tried to sneak back in. And I didn't see how one K'rub could have stopped me if I went a lil to the south west around him.
Any hu, there is something I noticed as I continue to shed these Christian Blinders from my eyes and that's the word Garden of Eden The pronounciation of the word Eden. We usually say EEdehn. But thats not how the word is spelled in hebrew. Ayin Dalet and final Nun. Now I am probably the only person who studies hebrew that pronounces Ayin as a very short A or as I like to spell it with a U as in "us". Sometimes in hebrew Ayin is given an O sound. I don't like the inconsistency of modern hebrew and don't beleive the letters change sounds like that. But just playing around with the idea Uden/EDen COULD then be pronounced Oden.
now where have I seen that name before? OH I know!! Oden is a Viking God:
Odin, Óðinn, Wodan, Wotan, Woden. Father of the gods, one of the shapers of the world and mankind. God of death, battles, knowledge, magic and wod. Leader of the Aesir. Odin had a myriad of names including Allfather, Ygg, Bolverk [evil doer], and Grimnir. He also had many functions including being a god of war, poetry, wisdom, and death. His halls were called Gladsheim Valaskjalf and Valhalla. Odin's high seat, Hlidskialf, was in Valaskjalf. It was from this throne that he could see over all the world. Valhalla is where he gathered his portion of the slain warriors, Einheriar, whom the valkyries had chosen.
Just some FYI on that Oden God of the Vikings part.
But yeah what happened to the Garden during the flood? Basically all we can do is come up with theories because I have yet to read a book that gives any answers
Which would explain to me how one Kerub could guard the east entrace. Had it been me that was kicked out I would have constantly tried to sneak back in. And I didn't see how one K'rub could have stopped me if I went a lil to the south west around him.
Any hu, there is something I noticed as I continue to shed these Christian Blinders from my eyes and that's the word Garden of Eden The pronounciation of the word Eden. We usually say EEdehn. But thats not how the word is spelled in hebrew. Ayin Dalet and final Nun. Now I am probably the only person who studies hebrew that pronounces Ayin as a very short A or as I like to spell it with a U as in "us". Sometimes in hebrew Ayin is given an O sound. I don't like the inconsistency of modern hebrew and don't beleive the letters change sounds like that. But just playing around with the idea Uden/EDen COULD then be pronounced Oden.
now where have I seen that name before? OH I know!! Oden is a Viking God:Odin, Óðinn, Wodan, Wotan, Woden. Father of the gods, one of the shapers of the world and mankind. God of death, battles, knowledge, magic and wod. Leader of the Aesir. Odin had a myriad of names including Allfather, Ygg, Bolverk [evil doer], and Grimnir. He also had many functions including being a god of war, poetry, wisdom, and death. His halls were called Gladsheim Valaskjalf and Valhalla. Odin's high seat, Hlidskialf, was in Valaskjalf. It was from this throne that he could see over all the world. Valhalla is where he gathered his portion of the slain warriors, Einheriar, whom the valkyries had chosen.
Just some FYI on that Oden God of the Vikings part.
But yeah what happened to the Garden during the flood? Basically all we can do is come up with theories because I have yet to read a book that gives any answers
