A name for the Divine Feminine, the Creation, and the Earth. The name comes from the Akkadian term “edinnu," and the Sumerian word “edin” meaning “plain” or “steppe.” It is also closely related to the Aramaic word meaning “fruitful,” or “well-watered.” In Abrahamic religions, the Garden of Eden, also referred to as the Garden of God, or the Terrestrial Paradise, is described in 1 Moses 4-5.
Some ideas on the location of the Garden of Eden include:
• The head of the Persian Gulf
• Southern Mesopotamia where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers run into the sea
• The Armenian Highlands
• The Armenian Plateau
• Iran, in or around Tabriz
• Jerusalem
• Bedford, England
• Jackson County, Missouri
• Near the town of Bristol, on the Apalachicola River in Florida
• South American mainland It is said that the Garden of Eden was the first Temple.
The Israelite temples had the Holy of Holies as representing teshuvah, the journey of the temple is the return back to God.
See 1 Moses 4-5; Genesis 2-3; Ezekiel 28 and 31; 2 Nephi 1:105-118 RAV, 2:19-26 OPV; Book of Remembrance 5-15, 20:35, 30:1.