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British Museum, (BM 92687) The Babylonian Map of the World (also Imago Mundi or Mappa mundi) is a Babylonian clay tablet with a schematic world map and two inscriptions written in the Akkadian language. Dated to no earlier than the 9th century BC (with a late 8th or 7th century BC date being more likely), it includes a brief and partially lost ...
Gog and Magog (/ ˈ ɡ ɒ ɡ ... ˈ m eɪ ɡ ɒ ɡ /; Hebrew: גּוֹג וּמָגוֹג, romanized: Gōg ū-Māgōg) or Ya'juj and Ma'juj (Arabic: يَأْجُوجُ وَمَأْجُوجُ, romanized: Yaʾjūj u wa-Maʾjūj u) are a pair of names that appear in the Bible and the Qur'an, variously ascribed to individuals, tribes, or lands.
Expulsion from Paradise, painting by James Tissot (c. 1896–1902) The Expulsion illustrated in the English Junius manuscript, c. 1000 CE. The second part of the Genesis creation narrative, Genesis 2:4–3:24, opens with YHWH-Elohim (translated here "the L ORD God") [a] creating the first man (), whom he placed in a garden that he planted "eastward in Eden": [21]
The world tree is also represented in the mythologies and folklore of North Asia and Siberia. According to Mihály Hoppál, Hungarian scholar Vilmos Diószegi located some motifs related to the world tree in Siberian shamanism and other North Asian peoples. As per Diószegi's research, the "bird-peaked" tree holds the sun and the moon, and the ...
In the Bible outside of Genesis, the term "tree of life" appears in Proverbs (3:18; 11:30; 13:12; 15:4) and Revelation (2:7; 22:2,14,19). It also appears in 2 Esdras and 4 Maccabees , which are included among the Jewish apocrypha. According to the Greek Apocalypse of Moses, the tree of life is also called the Tree of Mercy.
Noah's Ark (Hebrew: תיבת נח; Biblical Hebrew: Tevat Noaḥ) [Notes 1] is the boat in the Genesis flood narrative through which God spares Noah, his family, and examples of all the world's animals from a global deluge. [1] The story in Genesis is based on earlier flood myths originating in Mesopotamia, and is repeated, with variations, in ...
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The Mount of Olives is one of three peaks of a mountain ridge which runs for 3.5 kilometres (2.2 miles) just east of the Old City across the Kidron Valley, in this area called the Valley of Josaphat. The peak to its north is Mount Scopus, at 826 metres (2,710 feet), while the peak to its south is the Mount of Corruption, at 747 m (2,451 ft).