place

Dilmun

Places

A pure land of Mesopotamian speech, later tied to Gulf shores. Not Eden as the garden alone, and not paradise as a bare synonym.

Mesopotamian tradition

  • Dilmun appears in Mesopotamian tradition.

    The Epic of Gilgamesh seats Utnapishtim in Dilmun, the far clean land at the waters’ mouth. A named Dilmun land in that epic, not Eden as a Qur’anic garden and not a generic paradise flatten.

    from Epic of Gilgamesh, c. 1200 BCE (this recension)

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sources

  • Epic of Gilgamesh

    The Epic of Gilgamesh, Standard Babylonian version (flood tablet; underworld material).