As History equally Mythology is full of symbolisms, gaps and discontinuities. It is indeed vastly accepted that the belief system of all religions has been evolved through moral directives, interdicts, instructions, creedal statements, and myths. Some of us, with the “aid” of institutional religion take these myths for real, rational incidents for these myths justify the acts and rituals of a religion. Recognizing the social origin of religion, Durkheim argued that religion acted as a source of solidarity and identification for the individuals within a society, especially as a part of mechanical solidarity systems, and to a lesser, but still important extent in the context of organic solidarity. Saying that, there has to be a historical/sociological meaning hidden between the “sacred” words of the scripts. How must we translate the hidden messages received from the ancient religious texts and epics? Is the Old Testament a manipulated historical script describing actual situations and conditions of human life in the Old World, the world before the world of the Old Testament? Is there a way for us to demodulate the rigid date which in fact are a social product and not a divine one?
For instance, which historical or climatological phenomenon is being described when Satan(evil) falls from the Heavens? What is the meaning of the creation of Man by the hands of God, and respectively of Woman by the limbs of Man? Was it maybe because these current societies had already been transformed into patriarchal/misogynist communities? And where did image and social structure of the “Garden of Eden” got inspired by? And why only one couple, is this a sing of a time when incest was not a taboo? So which is the sociological value of the ancient religious scripts, specifically the Old Testament concerning the structure of the world that existed before the one being described by the Book as the first one. Can we reverse their transcendental determinism for our interest;
In three parts of the Old Testament, both in the Hebrew original as well as in Syriac and Greek translation a mysterious word from asbestic language(an ancient Persian dialect) makes its appearance: pairidaeza, «paradise», the name of a lost place where (wo)man was happy.
The myth of the lost happiness and the lost country is not limited to Jewish, Syrian and Greek sources, rather than part of a cluster of myths that spread over a large geographic area, from the shores of the Mediterranean to the heart of Western Asia. Today most of the very important mythologists, linguists and religion scholars of our time agree that the "Garden of Eden" was not even in Mesopotamia, as it was believed in the 19th century, nor in a certain place, on the contrary it was just describing a certain form of social life, which perhaps was once throughout this region.
The Sumerians talk about a country where people lived happy and without desires before the time of the flood. Gilgamesh, the Babylonian hero, found this happy world during his wanderings, but lost the magical flower that was growing there thus, was unable to ever regain the road. The Jews link their faith to the advent of the Messiah hoping that he will bring back the virtues that (wo)man had during that lost era. It is certainly no coincidence that Karl Marx, heir to a long tradition rabbi knowledge built his philosophy of history on the idea that it is inevitable for (wo)man to one day regain the virtues of that lost era: from the classless society of prehistory in classless society of the future.
Was "god"s paradise a reversed replica of the Old matrilineal World?
May contain typos - to be continued

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