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The Pishon is one of four rivers mentioned in the Biblical Genesis (2:11). In that passage, it is described as branching off from a single river within Eden. The river is described as encircling "the entire land of Havilah", which cannot be positively identified.

The only two identified rivers of the four streams said to issue forth from Eden, the Tigris (Hiddekel, from Genesis 2:14) and the Euphrates, do not now rise in the same place. It must therefore be assumed that either the topography of the area has changed or the geographical notions of the Genesis writer(s) were inaccurate. However, some scholars have questioned English translations that say the rivers issued forth from Eden, and claim improved renderings are more flexible in their description. This interpretation would allow Eden to be a confluence point for four rivers originating elsewhere.

Together with the Tigris, the river Pishon is briefly mentioned in the book of Ecclesiasticus (24:25), but this reference throws no more light on the location of the river. "Calumet, A. D. 1672-1757, Rosebmuller, 1768-1835, Kell, 1807-1888, and some other scholars believed the source river [for Eden] was a region of springs. The Pishon and Gihon were mountain streams. The former may have been the Phasis or Araxes, and the latter the Oxus." ^[1]

In the Biblical Table of Nations, Havilah is associated with Arabia. If the two can be equated, the Pishon may correspond to an ancient dry riverbed that terminated in the Persian Gulf. Evidence of this river is visible in satellite photos and a telltale, fan-shaped delta of gravel deposits at the old river mouth. Such identification is necessarily tentative.

David Rohl identified Pishon with the Uizhun and placed Havilah to the northeast of Mesopotamia. The Uizhun is known locally as the Golden River. Rising near Mt. Sahand, it meanders between ancient gold mines and lodes of lapis lazuli before feeding the Caspian Sea. Such natural resources correspond to the ones associated with the land of Havilah in the Genesis account (2:11).

Certain Christian fundamentalists have sometimes appealed to the effects of the Noachian Flood to explain the seeming disappearance of the Pishon river and the supposed change in the upper courses of the Tigris and the Euphrates. Names from the Bible like Havilah and Cush have come to mean different places at different times.

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1. ^ Duncan, George S. (October 1929) "The Birthplace of Man" The Scientific Monthly 29(4): pp. 359-362, p. 360

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Havilah is a land in the Garden of Eden first mentioned in Genesis 2:11: "The name of the first [river] is the Pishon; it is the one that winds through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold." Havilah is known for its abundance.
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Origin Eastern Turkey
Mouth Shatt al-Arab
Basin countries Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran
Length 1.900 km (1.180 mi)

The Tigris is the eastern member of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, along with the Euphrates, which flows from
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Origin Eastern Turkey
Mouth Shatt al Arab
Basin countries Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran
Length 2,800 km
Source elevation 4,500 m

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In a broader sense, topography is concerned with local detail in general, including not only relief but also
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Naming dispute

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Placer (Sediment) mining

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Lapis lazuli has been mined in the Badakhshan province of Afghanistan for 6,500 years, and trade in the stone is ancient enough for lapis
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Coordinates Coordinates:
Lake type Endorheic
Saline
Permanent
Natural
Primary sources Volga River

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:For the Okinawan king, see Gihon (Ryukyu).

Gihon is the name of a river first mentioned in the second chapter of the Biblical book of Genesis.
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