by Luigi Cesetti
Eden Baltico
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Enontekio lat. 68.37 , long. 23.43 , farthest north of Finland, in Sami language or Lapp is said Eanodat , "..that makes big rivers" certainly for the water discharge, but also for the possibility to have its own source in the region of the Eden Garden.

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Omero nel baltico" “Homer in the Baltic” by the engineer  Felice Vinci, proposes the geography of the Iliad and the Odyssey in the northern Europe, as a consequence migration of the people involved in the Aegean, where the famous exploits of the Homeric heroes  should have been handed down first orally,  then   in writing.

Both the Greek literature and the Bible tell about the Ethiopians.
In the Iliad “the latest of the men” are defined "ESKATOI ANDRON", obviously in the geographic meaning, they were praised for being the first to sacrifice to the Gods.
Genesis 2, 13 : " And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia”
In the likely hypothesis that they refer to the same Ethiopian people, considering the friendship and the relationship between the Spartans and the Jewish highlighted by  
Felice Vinci, I considered the possibility to link the Bible to to the Baltic Iliad, using the Ethiopians as join.  The careful reading of "Homer in the Baltic" leads to place the Ethiopians at the mouth of the Tana river, in the neighbourhood of North Cape and of the peninsula of  Nordkinn.
Ethiopian, "AITHI-OPS"
comes from "AITHO-OPS" = face on flames, fulvus, rufus, adjective referred both to Ulysses and to a  Hector's horse. The Sami and the Lapp have this characteristic having the face as the only part of the body exposed to the solar rays. The river Tana flows into the homonym fjord that has the living centres of Thorop, while more North-West on the Hops fjorden we find Hops eidet e Hops neset.If this was the biblic Ghicon that “..is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia” going up till the source we would find ourselves in the centre of the Eden Garden.  (Gen. 2.13).It rises in the neighbourhood of the rise (tunturi in the  Finnish language) called Avisuora   with the name of   Teno, in the Sami language Deatnu = big river. In its long travel northwards it skims over  many rises like  Geahcoaivi (490 m.) , Geahcoaivvit (414 m.) , Jeakkas etc.Genesis 2, 10 says that form the Garden “ four watercourses” were going out; next to the source of the river we have just mentioned, we will logically find the source of the other three. Genesis 2, 11 : " The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone." From the slopes of the Avisuora two branches of the river Ivalo rise, the Sami call it Avvil.The branch more northwards is called  Repo joki ( joki means river). It is interesting to notice that Repo in the Sami language is said Rube or Rjeban , that means fox.The assonance between Avila and Avvil can be accidental, but right in this land they have won the gold since ever, as the Kultamuseo ( the gold museum) of Tankavaara  states far few kilometres from the river Ivalo. The feature of the metal of 23 carats out of 24 and its location in surface are not common anywhere else. The resin excreted by pine trees, larches and firs that are abandoned in this region much more than in Mesopotamia. The onyx has a composition of crystals very similar to the cherts and to the red and black  jasper that are plentiful in this region, as the famous geologist    Risto Vartiainen di Rovaniemi points out to me.Genesis 2, 14 : " And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates”.
The Eng. Vinci proposes that these could be the names of the real prototypes, placed in a different context.
Also the source of the Ounas joki (Baltic Tigri) is in the nearby the Avisuora, that dimly remind of  Assur. This river flows towards the Botnia gulf, on the east side of the Pellas mountain  and of the village of Raattama , receiving in its final part the waters of  Kemi joki, "KEMIA" is the old name of Egypt.On the West and parallel to the Baltic Tigri the Muonion-Tornion joki flows, that obviously remind of the Euphrates for the same geographical location related to the Tigri. Gen. 2, 8 : " And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden”.The Baltic Euphrates flows first toward the east toward the sources above mentioned, then it bends   Southwards after receiving the left affluent coming from the Nakkala lake. This river rises from the lake of “the source” called Kilpisjarvi located under the mountain Malla and under the mountain Saana, sacred for the Sami like The Sinai is for the Semites.The legend says that the Saana and the Malla were two Giants near to the wedding , but frozen by the witches of the north turned to stone at their place. Probably the summer thaw reveals the stone under the snow and the poetic art makes the work. It comes to mind Genesis 6, 4 :" There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that".If Homer saw and told about this land, his  Batracomiomachia , war between rats and frogs , can have been inspired by the phenomenon of the “lemming", typical of the region of Muonio. It also would gain meaning the rumour that says  he is native of the Mionia.Between the Baltic Tigri and the Euphrates there is the Pallas mountain ( 807 m.) that remind of Minerva, the lady who “taught the men to build ships”. In old Greek she was called "POTNIA"
,similar to the Botnia gulf where the above mentioned rivers flow, in the neighbourhood of the town of  Tornion or Tornea.Torneia = rounded wood to build ships.Further curiosities : Gen. 3, 18-19 :".and  thou shalt eat the herb of the field. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread;..” Still today you mix half flour and half dried up herbs to make a kind of bread that has the necessary vitamins, that lack at this latitude because of the total absence of fruits. Gen. 3, 24 "( God) So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims.." By chance on North-East of this land there is the living of  Angels. Gen. 3, 21 " Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them." At this latitude the material is with no doubts the most suitable. Gen. 4, 16 " And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden". Right on East of the four rivers we find the Not lake with the homonym river  . Is is interesting to remember that often the Sami or Lapp language uses the letter   D instead of T, the G for K , the B for P. For example : Kittila=Gihttel ; Kietsima =Gietsima.In the Sami language not o nod = njuohtte o nuortti = east, orient. Kainuu is the name of the Finnish province  lightly on the south of this Lapland that has scheming place names. The river Lotta, Uurrekarkia mountain ( 390 m.) ,the inhabitants of Lisma , Kuttura, Naamjoki, Uts joki , Niav Dan, Gadde luokta, the lakes Jies, Menes, Genes, Anar (Inari) , the isle Petaja and many others that sound familiar to who has read carefully the Genesis book. he interlocutor between the Sam people and God is the Shaman, that in Lapland is called Noid o Noaidde. "NOEO-AIDEN" ? Noè was the first biblical interlocutor: Gen. 6, 14 " Make thee an ark of gopher wood." At the point of making a ship one hundred forty metres long ( 140 m.), “and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch", foresee that immense atmospheric catastrophe  and rescue his descent .Sami, Kemi e Jaffut.The division of the lands in this region has Kemi well marked by the left affluent of the possible Baltic Tigri with the homonym Russian that flows eastwards. Sami is the people and the Lapp land of Norway till the peninsula of Kola between the parallels near the Polar Arctic Circle. Jaffut in Sami language is the same of aljiton, from which alphi o alpi , name referring first to a giant then to the Alps, white like flour = jaffut.The Norwegian mountains are always covered with snow and “the islands”, among which Rodøy, remind of  Gen.10, 4-5.
Genesis 7 tells about waters as a plural. The action of the rain that lasted forty days and forty nights combined with a possible link with the sea  (the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened) and a Summer so hot to melt the permafrost can have caused a real deluge in this marshy and lake land. Gen. 7, 19 " And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered" can be put probably in effects in this region, as the  " tunturi" ( the mountains) are on average 400 meters high.Gen. 8, 4:" And the ark rested..., upon the mountains of Ararat". In Asia Minor there is a volcano 5.156 metres high, in Lapland on east of the  Lokan lake there is  Kemihara with hill ranges, one of which has the name of  (vaara means tree-lined rise).

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