When analyzing the Garden of Eden to deduce its location, there are two possible candidates: Dilmun, with the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, and Ethiopia, due to the land of Cush. However, when I combine this with an interpretation of the seventh day as the Holocene—since I have connected the other days to the geological timescale (day 2 of the Precambrian, day 3 of the Paleozoic, day 5 of the Mesozoic, and day 6 of the Cenozoic)—I had the insight that the original Eden would be the Sahara when it was fertile some 11,000 years ago. But human activity and climate change transformed that Eden into the desert it is now. The flaming sword of the guardian cherub would represent this desertification, which expels the humans who create their own Eden ("with gambling and prostitutes") in Ethiopia and then in Mesopotamia…
by Dskartes