THE GARDEN OF EDEN.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 144778, 7 September 1915, Page 3

THE GARDEN OF EDEN.

VARIANT ON BIBLE STORY. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. —COPYRIGHT. TIMES AND SYDNEY SUN SERVICES. (Received Sept. 7, 8 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 6. Dr. Stephen Langdon, Professor of Assyriology at Oxford, has translated a Summeriau tablet from the museum of the University of Pennsylvania. It affirms that Eden is situated on the east coast of the Arabian Gulf, a hundred miles from the source of the Tigris and Euphrates. One day there appeared the Nintu goddess who claimed that she had created mortals from clay. She appointed Noah chief gardener of Paradise, stipulating that nobody should taste the cassia tree. Noah did eat the fruit.