Black history Month Program Part 3
Black history Month Program Part 3: The 4 Rivers that left the Garden of Eden and Where was this Garden of Eden?
INTRODUCTION TO THE FOUR RIVERS
The words Cush and Ethiopia keep coming up in reference to the four rivers that are used to identify the Garden of Eden in the Bible. The word Cush and Ethiopia are used interchangeably in the Bible translations we use today. The word Ethiopian means \u201cburnt face people,\u201d and Europeans used the term Ethiopian to denote Africans or Black people. As one continues to read this book and the Bible, they will find out that the first river surrounds the Land of Havilah and was named after one of the sons of Cush. This would make it appear that the first river should be somewhere within the Cushite or Ethiopian Empire (see Map 1.1) since his son Havilah lived under his father\u2019s empire. The placement of the Land of Havilah under the Cushite or Ethiopian Empire is clearly defined since the son\u2019s name is identified with that land. The second river surrounds the Land of Cush or Ethiopia. In classical literature Cush and Ethiopia was denoted as everything south of Egypt. Today, Ethiopia is located in Eastern Africa. The third and fourth rivers are the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers which surround the Land of Nimrod. Nimrod, the son of Cush, established this land in ancient times. As one can see, these four rivers all surround the lands that were established, inhabited and controlled by Africans, Cushites and Ethiopians. This makes it obvious that The Garden of Eden was in Classical Africa and on the Ancient African continent. Adam and Eve, imperatively, were Ethiopian, \u201cburnt face people,\u201d Cushites, Nubians and Black Africans.