The aim of this article is to understand the relationship between the primordial garden, on the one hand, and Gaia and the origins of the human being, on the other. Taking this hypothesis as a starting point, the mythical, allegorical, symbolic, historical and cultural meanings of the Garden of Eden are analysed. This work is based on Sumerian, Biblical, Greek and Koranic texts as well as their impact on Western artistic and literary culture. Drawing from these sources three basic aspects are analysed: the nostalgia for the lost paradise, the desire to return to paradise in the future and, finally, the conviction that paradise is a state of consciousness upgradeable at any time.... [Leer más...]