Was the Cross Interpreted as a symbol of Paradise?

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Secret Alias
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Was the Cross Interpreted as a symbol of Paradise?

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In the TV series she narrated BBCs:The Bible's Buried Secrets , Francesca Stavrakopoulou says that the Garden of Eden was modeled after the 1st Temple/Persian/Babylonian temples and king's gardens. I wonder if the fourfold division you bring up is common in those.
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Re: Was the Cross Interpreted as a symbol of Paradise?

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The cross is represented as the tree of life from which flow the rivers of paradise.

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