The concept of a garden of the gods or a divine paradise may have originated in Sumer. The concept of this home of the immortals was later handed down to the Babylonians, who conquered Sumer.
A cedar of Lebanon (Cedrus libani, which are associated with the "garden of the gods"
2010 Utopien arche 04
Garden of Eden
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The Garden of Eden, also called Garden of God or the Paradise, is the biblical paradise described in Genesis 2–3 and Ezekiel 28 and 31.
Garden of the gods (Sumerian paradise)
…of the gods, situated at the point where the heavens rest upon the earth. It is there that mankind had their first habitat and there the Babylonian Garden of Eden is to be placed." The Sumerian word Edin, means "steppe" or "plain", so modern scholarship has abandoned the use of the phrase "Babylonian Garden of…
The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Pieter Paul Rubens, c. 1615, depicting both domestic and exotic wild animals such as tigers, parrots, and ostriches co-existing in the garden
Expulsion from Paradise, painting by James Tissot, c. 1896–1902
The Expulsion illustrated in the English Junius manuscript, c. 1000 CE
The Garden of Eden in the left panel of Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights