GARDEN OF EDEN.
NEW VERSION OF THE STORY. NOAH AS CHIEF GARDENER. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, Sept. 0. Dr. Stephen Langdon, Professor of Assyriology at Oxford, has translated a Snmmcrian tablet from the museum of flie University of Pennsylvania. Itaffirms that Eden is situated on the east coast of the Arabian Gulf > a 'hundred miles from the sources 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 t'he cassia tree. Noah did eat the fruit.
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 September 1915, Page 2
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101GARDEN OF EDEN. Taranaki Daily News, 8 September 1915, Page 2
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