The Secret of Baalbek: Eden
Immanuel Velikovsky
http://www.varchive.org/ce/baalbek/eden.htm
Of Aden in South Arabia, Arab historians of the Middle Ages narrated from older traditions that it was an unusually fruitful land, well-watered. One who started on his travel upon the land on a donkey with an empty basket on his head found the basket full of fruit before he reached his destination. Then in a catastrophe (called “bursting of the dam”) apparently of global dimensions, this country became a desert.
Of ancient channels of great rivers in Arabia I brought references of modern explorers in Earth in Upheaval. The area Arabia Felix is today a forbidden land.
Marib was the city of the area, once so fruitful, according to legend.
On some pages 1. tried to follow the legend to the Arab autochthonous tradition of Moses (Mosaikaia), Aharon, and Miriam and the “Bursting of the Dam” ; it was not just the Dam — I offered a philological explanation — it was a cataclysmic event. Eden (Paradise) was located in Aden.
This guy suspects that Eden is where the Persian Gulf is now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qPLjwjjPxA&feature=relmfu
I fear that America will share the same fate when God lifts His hand from us.
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The theory goes that sometime after 16,000 BC when the Ice Cap began to melt, a huge slab slid off the Canadian Ice blocking the Gulf current and creating the Younger Dryas, thus changing the weather in the Atlantic.
When the ice blocking the current melted, the Atlantic weather changed again and rain no longer fell over the Sahara region as today.