Underground Rivers - University of New Mexico

Chapter 4 -- The Cross
Topographia by Cosmas Indicopleustes, a sixth-century
Christian merchant, describes the Red Sea and the Indian
Ocean including fountains which "cleave a passage through the
ocean and spring up in this earth."
Divine scripture, with a view to show the diameter of Paradise,
how great it is, and how far it extended eastward, mentions
the four rivers only, and thence we learn that the fountain
which springs up in Eden and waters the garden, distributes
the residue of its waters among the four great rivers which
cross over into this earth and water and a large part of its
surface.
Cosmas maps the Tigris, Euphrates and Pison as three fissures
from Paradise (the rectangle on the right of the figure below) to
the Persian Gulf (the right-most circle on the rectangular earth).
The Gihon, the blue pathway along the map's bottom, flows from
Paradise to the Blue Nile's headwaters at Gish Abay Mikael,
Ethiopia, a photo of which is to the right.
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