CarpeDiem: do you own that book ? How did you find it ?
First picture is very intriguing. If I understand correctly, it is implying that the garden of eden is/was located north-east of basque country, the place on the map with a cluster of caves with paintings, from where the two arrows depart. i'll translate as I understand.
BTW, The image is called "Arca_Cromagnom" what I understand to be Arch or Origin of the CroMagnon.
Top of page:
220 (page number ?) --- KIS ASR IS (or KISh AShR ISh)
Map
Upper Paleolithic
-35000 to -10000
Caves with paintings (black dots on map would represent caves with paintings)
Perpetual Ices (the line of dots traversing Europe)
Gamma Nun - Omicron Delta Nun (GN ODN) in big letters to the left, apparently in reference to what is today southern france.
(Note: "ODN" - why does the nordic god "ODiN" come to mind here ?)
Footnote of the Map:
Of the more than 200 painted caves in Europe, 90% are found on both sides of the Pirineian mountains or "Mountains of the new fire" (greek spelling given).
Lower half of page
Ttle: Gamma Nun - Omicron Delta Nun (GN ODN) "The Garden of Eden"
(Note: weird, interesting connection: Eden - Odin)
Genesis II,8
(Note: there are some dots and dashes below the letters, as in arabic writing, which probably clarify on the pronounciation. Also, note that there is a mix between 'Xepher Adam' and 'Modern European' - see second image, the alphabeth - symbols used here. Why would they do this ?)
YPSILON IOTA THETA OMICRON (UITO)
"and planted"
IEVE
"Ieve" (probably yahweh)
ALEIM
"Elohim (a (denoting one))"
GN BODN
"Garden" "in (or at)"
"Farm" "a particular time"
"Circuit"
"Fenced off"
"Sphere"
"Domain"
MQDM (or MODM ?)
"in beginning"
"Preceding"
"Origin"
ShM
"there (he put)"
SM (ShM -> SM)
"placed"
"designed"
"caused"
AT EADM
"the man"
Put together, we would have "And planted IEVE Elohim (Jahweh of the Elohim ?) at the beginning of time a garden, and there he placed (or designed) man".
(Note: Genesis 2,8 reads "Now the LORD God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed." in the "New International Version" on BibleGateway - translations seems inaccurate and strongly at variance with what the text presented above says - a correct translation of the whole torah would seem to be very needed IMHO)
THETA OMICRON - TO
"Obstinate Tenacity and persisting to any ends (whatsoever)"
THETA OMICRON MU - TOM
"taste, flavor, sense, reason, decision, order"
The first man ADM-Adam (1+4+40 --> 9) comes to existence in a first or original place called QDM (100+4+40 --> 9) which the biblical text calls GN BODN and which is translated as "The Garden in Eden".
Note: The numbers refer to the cadinal values given in the Alphabet table, the second image.
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I find it also very interesting that this lone page in this book, as i understand it, put the origin of "man", the cro-magnon, in southern france instead of in babylonia or today's iraq. where does the author know this from ? another interesting connection i found while browsing - inspired by this - around the theme of the basques, inspired by the ubication of the painted caves, especially that cluster in the middle of the map and from which the two arrows depart, as saying "from here they departed".
Check these:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basque_Country_%28historical_territory%29
a short quote: "The Basque Country shows continuity of population since the Late Paleolithic.". The "late paleolitic" is also called the "upper paleolithic", what is what is written on the map.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basque_people
This is a long and interesting article about the basque people. I read from it that the only thing they know for certain is that the basques have been in europe longer than any other ethnic group, certainly pre-dating the roman invasions. various theories are offered about their origins, from indo-germanic invasions to being related to the berber people because of some similarities in language. to this i can say that some time ago while reading about tracing human migration from western africa to the rest of the world by use of genetic characteristics haplogroups, mtDNA and Y-DNA there was a blurb about reverse migration from europe to northern africa. i dont remember exactly where i found that, but a good URL to start looking up that is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup
Another interesting connection i found (or think i found) in above article about the basques is that there is a reference to "jentilak" who were "huge and extremely strong humanoids who lived hidden in the forest and are thought to be related to the Neanderthal men". According to the Wikipedia entry, the "Gentilak" are "gentiles" or pagans or heathens. "Gentiles" is what the jews call the rest of us. I have a german translation of selected parts of the talmud here, and they say "Jene aus den Voelkern" meaning "those from the tribes" - what is exactly the meaning given at Wikipedia. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jentilak
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentile
Why do the jews and the basques call the "other" almost the same ? what is the connection between both peoples ?
On another note, here is some more material which seems to have been written in an alphabet similar to the one given in the book: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iberian_alphabet
