I believe the above map known as the Babylonian World Map also called the Imago Mundi is a Babylonian attempt of depicting roughly and simply the earth after the Flood, when it was still in the shape of the Pangaea. It shows the Ocean (dark blue ring) surrounding the Pangaea which it calls the Maretum which has been translated as Bitter River or Salt Sea or Ocean, between the two rings. The four rectangular shapes (light blue) represent the four major rivers. This represents the Pangaean earth after the Flood from 2005-1850 BC in the so-called Triassic period.

The number 3 on the map is the location of the mountain where Noah's Ark landed which was the original Urartu or Uraastu (in Akkadian), which is the area of Mt Cook (Aoraki) in New Zealand today. The number 13 is the original Babel or Lebab (Tintir in Akkadian) located today on Tasmania. The River it is on or near is the Pishon. The River with the two dots on it is the Chidekel River. The bigger dot which is at the centre of the map represents the Interior Sea and the smaller dot the Tethys Sea. The Gihon River is where the number 6 is and the Parat River numbers 7 (Apparu) and 9 (Bitku). 

Number 2 represents the city of Adan of the Japhethites. Number 4 the city is either the Australian Eridu or Uruk (Assur in Akkadian). Number 23 the city of the Australian Uruk or Eridu. Number 5 is the Hamite city of Nahal (called Der in Akkadian). Number 8 is a city in the Americas called Susa in Akkadian, which may have been built near the location of Larak from before the Flood. 

Number 10 is the city of Bitiakinu which may have been built near the pre-diluvian city of Sippar in Pangaean Western Europe. Number 11 is a city in Pangaean Northern Europe. Number 12 is the city of Haabban in Pangean Asia or China. Number 25 is also a city in Asia to the south west of Haabban from our perspective and possibly in the area of today's Beijing or Peking. Number 24 is a city in the area of Pangaean Japan probably south west of modern Tokyo. 

Number 1 is Saduu or the area of Cipangu, before it split off from Pangaea. Number 18 speaks about a region of the Great Wall which probably alludes to the Great Wall of China which goes back as far as the Shang Dynasty and so this Babylonian map on this clay tablet must have been written around the 5th or 6th century BC or earlier, drawing on a much older version from the days of King Sargon I of Mesaptomian Akkad and Ashur whose reign I date 1318-1277 BC. I date the Shang Dynasty from 1438-480 BC. The three Shang Kings in the days of Sargon I of Akkad were Tai Jia (aka Xiao Yi) r.1347-1315 BC, his son Wo Ding r.1315-1295 BC and his son Tai Geng (aka Zu Geng) r.1295-1270 BC.

Below is my rough map of the Pangaea after the Deluge between 2005-1850 BC. Jerusalem on my map is just east of the Interior Sea which could be the centre of the Pangaea land Mass.

Below is my rough map of the Pangaea before the Flood. In this map the circular ring around the Garden of Eden represents the River or Waterway around the Mountain on which the Garden of Eden dwelt. According to ancient tradition and Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich the place that Adam and Eve settled after the Fall was the same place from where God took the red clay to form Adam. This was East of Eden in the area of Jerusalem which was very different in those days and not so mountainous.


My rough map also places the four rivers roughly on the Pangaea due to my poor artistic and mapping skills but I provide a written description of the Rivers in my past writings:

Before the Flood the Interior Sea was a huge mountain on which the Garden of Eden was located surrounded by the fifth or head River of Eden from which the four major Rivers flowed into the rest of Eden (the rest of the Land).  

The Nile, Congo, Niger, Amazon and  Rio de la Plata rivers were once part of the same primordial River that flowed to the south-west through Gondwanian Africa and South America coming out to the Ocean near the great Hamite city of Nahal (near Gondwanian Uruguay, Namibia and South Africa)). This was the Black (Nahal) city which was made mostly of black dolerite. This primordial River was called the Gihon.
The Pishon River that flowed to the south-east has remnants in the modern day Ganges River (the original Indus River) in India, the Dalay River (the original Ganges River under the Timor Sea today) and the Swan, Fitzroy and Murray Rivers in Australia. The Chidekel flowed to the north-east and the Euphrates River, Persian Gulf, Yellow and Yangtze Rivers are remnants of this river. The Parat flowed to the north-west and its remnants are the Volga, Don, Black Sea, Danube, the Rhine, the Thames, the River Severn, the River Bann, the Pjorsa and the ancient River under the ice of Greenland. (see )

In another blog entry I wrote: 

Thus in the time when Abraham's family moved from Uruk Shadim to Iraq they followed the Pangaean Pishon River (then in the far east but now the far south) up from Australia via the Ganges-Dalay River to the Ganges-Indus River and then they went overland to the Chidezel River which they followed into ancient Iraq. The part of the Chidezel River they joined is called the Oxus River today and then it went across Turkmenistan to the Atrak River to the Ghezel Ozam River to the Tigris then Euphrates River.

If they had continued on the Pishon river they would have then gone from the Ganges-Indus River to the Indus-Sindh River along what is today the Indian Ocean, near the Persian gulf to what is the Red Sea but was a River then, to the Jordan River. The Chidezel River going further from the Oxus would link with the Tarim river and then with the Yellow and Yangtze Rivers. These four super-rivers would be broken up in 1850 BC and then even more in 1654 BC. In the period when Abraham visited Egypt the Gihon or Nile River flowed the opposite way from the fresh water Inland Sea which once was a River before the Flood that circled the land on which the Mountain of Eden was situated. ()

Commentary and translation by Brother Gilbert Joseph of the Divine Presence LEB

The Zohar Prologue 247-260: The Shabbat Queen

Prologue: Verse 247

פִּקּוּדָא אַרְבֵּיסַר, לְנַטְרָא יוֹמָא דְשַׁבַּתָּא, דְּאִיהוּ יוֹמָא דְנַיְיחָא מִכָּל עוֹבָדֵי בְּרֵאשִׁית. הָכָא כְּלִילָן תְּרֵין פִּקּוּדִין, חַד נָטוֹרָא דְּיוֹם הַשַּׁבָּת. וְחַד לְקַשְׁרָא הַהוּא יוֹמָא בְּקִדּוּשֵׁיהּ. לְנַטְרָא יוֹמָא דְּשַׁבַּתָּא, כְּמָא דְּאַדְכַּרְנָא וְאַתְעַרְנָא עֲלַיְיהוּ, דְּאִיהוּ יוֹמָא דְנַיְיחָא לְעָלְמִין, וְכָל עֲבִידָן בֵּיהּ אִשְׁתַּכְלְלוּ וְאִתְעֲבִידוּ, עַד דְּאִתְקַדַּשׁ יוֹמָא.

The fourteenth precept - to observe the day (yoma) of the Shabbat, which is a day (yoma) of rest for Kol (All) of the works of Bereshit. Here, there are two Universal precepts.

Commentary and translation by Brother Gilbert Joseph of the Divine Presence LEB

The Zohar Prologue 244-246: Mother of the Firstborn

Prologue: Verse 244

פִּקּוּדָא חַדְסַר, לְעַשְׂרָא מַעַשְׂרָא דְאַרְעָא הָכָא אִית תְּרֵין פִּקּוּדִין: חַד, לְעַשְׂרָא מַעַשְׂרָא דְאַרְעָא. וְחַד בִּכּוּרֵי דְּפֵירֵי אִילָנָא, דִּכְתִיב הִנֵּה נָתַתִי לָכֶם אֶת כָּל עֵשֶׂב זוֹרֵעַ זֶרַע אֲשֶׁר עַל פְּנֵי כָל הָאָרֶץ. כְּתִיב הָכָא, הִנֵּה נָתַתִּי.

Miriam is the Mother of Mercy and is the perfect mirror (Mariah) of the 13 attributes or aspects of Mercy (Chesed). 13 is the number of Our Lady of Fatima as well as Queen Esther, who in turn is a type of Our Lady. The numbers one (echad) and love (ahavah) also are numerically 13 in Hebrew. Esther means star and Miriam haKedosha is called Star of the Sea (Stella Maris) in Catholic devotion. In many European languages the first part of Our Lady’s name MR means Sea i.e.

Commentary and translation by Brother Gilbert Joseph of the Divine Presence LEB

Mystery of the Tefillin

Prologue: Verse 237

פִּקּוּדָא עֲשִׂירָאָה, לַאֲנָחָא תְּפִילִּין וּלְאַשְׁלָמָא גַרְמֵיהּ, בְּדִיּוֹקְנָא עִלָּאָה. דִּכְתִיב וַיִּבְרָא אֱלֹהִים אֶת הָאָדָם בְּצַלְמוֹ. פְּתַח וַאֲמַר רֹאשֵׁךְ עָלַיִךְ כַּכַּרְמֶל. הַאי קְרָא אוֹקִימְנָא.

Commentary and translation by Brother Gilbert Joseph of the Divine Presence LEB

The Bread Woman and Mother of the Poor

Prologue: Verse 233

פִּקּוּדָא תְּשִׁיעָאָה, לְמֵיחַן לְמִסְכְּנֵי, וּלְמֵיהַב לוֹן טַרְפָּא. דִּכְתִיב, נַעֲשֶׂה אָדָם בְּצַלְמֵנוּ כִּדְמוּתֵנוּ. נַעֲשֶׂה אָדָ"ם בְּשׁוּתְּפָא, כְּלַל דְּכַר וְנוּקְבָא. בְּצַלְמֵנוּ עֲתִירֵי, כִּדְמוּתֵנוּ מִסְכְּנֵי.

The ninth precept - is to be generous to the needy and supply them with food (trefa).

Commentary and translation by Brother Gilbert Joseph of the Divine Presence LEB

Our Lady as the Universal Soul of All

Prologue: Verse 228

פִּקּוּדָא תְּמִינָאָה, לְמִרְחַם גִּיּוֹרָא דְּעָאל לְמִגְזַר גַּרְמֵיהּ וּלְעָאלָא תְּחוֹת גַּדְפוֹי דִשְׁכִינְתָּא. וְאִיהִי אָעֵילָא לוֹן תְּחוֹת גַּדְפָהָא לְאִינוּן דְּמִתְפָּרְשָׁן מִסִּטְרָא אָחֳרָא מְסָאֲבָא, וּמִתְקָרְבִין לְגַבָּהּ. דִּכְתִיב תּוֹצֵא הָאָרֶץ נֶפֶשׁ חַיָּה לְמִינָהּ.

Commentary and translation by Brother Gilbert Joseph of the Divine Presence LEB

The Lady Soars

Prologue: Verse 223

פִּקּוּדָא שְׁבִיעָאָה לְמִגְזַר לִתְמַנְיָא יוֹמִין, וּלְאַעֲבָרָא זוּהֲמָא דְּעָרְלְתָא בְּגִין דְּהַהִיא חַיָּה, אִיהִי דַרְגָא תְּמִינָאָה לְכָל דַּרְגִּין, וְהַהִיא נֶפֶשׁ דְּפָרְחָא מִינָהּ, אִצְטְרִיכָא לְאִתְחֲזָאָה קַמָּהּ לִתְמַנְיָא יוֹמִין, כְּמָה דְאִיהִי דַרְגָּא תְּמִינָאָה.

Commentary and translation by Brother Gilbert Joseph of the Divine Presence LEB

Marian Fruitfulness and Graces

Prologue: Verse 219

פִּקּוּדָא שְׁתִיתָאָה, לְאִתְעַסְּקָא בִּפְרִיָּה וּרְבִיָּה.

Commentary and translation by Brother Gilbert Joseph of the Divine Presence LEB.

Engaging with Our Lady Torah 

Prologue: Verse 215

פִּקּוּדָא חֲמִישָׁאָה, כְּתִיב יִשְׁרְצוּ הַמַּיִם שֶׁרֶץ נֶפֶשׁ חַיָה. בְּהַאי קְרָא אִית תְּלַת פִּקּוּדִין: חַד לְמִלְעֵי בְּאוֹרַיְיתָא, וְחַד לְאִתְעֲסָקָא בִּפְרִיָּה וּרְבִיָּה, וְחַד לְמִגְזַר לִתְמַנְיָיא יוֹמִין וּלְאַעֲבָרָא מִתַּמָּן עָרְלָתָא.

The Tribes of Israel had banners with emblems for each of the 13 Tribes, as well the Eagle, Ox, Lion and Man for the four Brigades. The Brigade of Dan had the symbol of the Eagle which included the Tribes of Dan, Asher and Naphtali. The Brigade of Ephraim had the symbol of the Ox which included the Tribes of Ephraim, Manasseh and Benjamin. The Brigade of Judah had the symbol of the Lion which included the Tribes of Judah, Zebulon and Issachar.
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