Another account portrays a celestial mountain, Mount Meru, buttressed by four terrestrial mountain ranges which extend in four directions. In Hinduism, the sacred mountain Kailash has four sides, from which four rivers flow to the four quarters of the world (the Ganges, Indus, Oxus (Amu Darya), and Śita (Tarim)), dividing the world into four quadrants. From the point of view of the Akkadians, the northern geographical horizon was marked by Subartu, the west by Mar.tu, the east by Elam and the south by Sumer later rulers of all of Mesopotamia, such as Cyrus, claimed among their titles LUGAL kib-ra-a-ti er-bé-et-tì, " King of the Four Corners". In Mesopotamian cosmology, four rivers flowing out of the garden of creation, which is the center of the world, define the four corners of the world. The four corners of the earth are also spoken of in the book of Revelation 7:1. The Tigris runs to Assyria, the Euphrates to Armenia, the Pishon to Havilah or Elam, and the Gihon to Ethiopia. In Christianity and Judaism, the Old Testament ( Book of Genesis, Genesis 2:8–14) identifies the Garden of Eden, and the four rivers as the Tigris, Euphrates, Pishon, and Gihon. Tibetan conception of four rivers dividing the world into quadrants Semitic religions Often four rivers run to the four corners of the world, and water or irrigate the four quadrants of Earth. At the center may lie a sacred mountain, garden, world tree, or other beginning-point of creation. Several cosmological and mythological systems portray four corners of the world or four quarters of the world corresponding approximately to the four points of the compass (or the two solstices and two equinoxes). The astronomical symbol of Earth represents either the four quadrants of the world or the four continents. For other uses, see Four corners of the world (disambiguation).
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