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Paradise

Author: 
Mary Kuper

Image Credit: 
keyoperator/Grosvenor@SCANNERPC

Image Credit: 
keyoperator/Grosvenor@SCANNERPC

The etymology of Paradise is more about the wall that keeps some things out and others in. Originally it was fruit trees, vegetables and animals that were the elect, but in its exclusivity not much has changed.

The text reads: Paradise, from the Old Iranian pari ‘around’+ diaz ‘to build’, ‘heap up (wall)’ originally meant an enclosure, a walled garden.