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> This section, along with the preceding one describing the “stream” rising up to water the ground (2.6), may draw on the ancient tradition that a temple is built on a primal mountain of creation from which the waters of the earth flow. The rivers mentioned here combine world rivers like the Tigris and Euphrates (both in Mesopotamia) with the local Gihon that flowed from Mount Zion in Jerusalem (Ps 46.4; Isa 7.6; Zech 14.8), although Cush is generally either Ethiopia or in Arabia. Pishon is unknown; Havilah is probably in Arabia.
> Where are the ancient centers of civilization according to the Bible? The answer to this is hinted at in the
description of the four rivers emerging from the Garden of Eden. It is natural that the ancients should
believe the rivers of Eden to be those flowing through the lands most abundant in water, the foremost
being the Tigris and the Euphrates in Mesopotamia. The Pishon and the Gihon have not been identified
and may have merely been symbolic. But since Havilah is one of the regions of Cush (Gen. 10:7), it would seem that the two major branches of the Nile (the Blue and the White) may have been intended.