Edin

The term Edin first occurs on Tablet IV. Sitchin identifies Edin as (1) the location of the Anunnaki's first settlements, (2) as the Garden of Eden in Hebrew Genesis, and (3) southern Mesopotamia; the later area of Shumer (Sumer).

Historicity
Edin (: 𒀀𒇉𒂔, ÍDEDIN), meaning "steppe" or "plain"; is a featured on the  as a watercourse from which white-ware plaster is taken to build a temple for Ningirsu:


 * Clay plaster, harmoniously blended clay taken from the Edin canal, has been chosen by Lord Ningirsu with his holy heart, and was painted by with the splendors of heaven, as if kohl were being poured all over it.

suggested this "Idedin" canal was an, as yet, unidentified "Desert Canal", which "probably refers to an abandoned canal bed that had filled with the characteristic purplish dune sand still seen in southern Iraq".

and numerous other scholars of linguistics and Assyriology believe the Jewish and Christian term Eden traces back to this term. A few scholars of Judaism posit the word may originate from Aramaic.

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 * Sumer (Sitchin's Shumer)