Eden, from Hebrew 1506; 1461; 1491; 1462; 1503; , is the place where a garden was planted after the creation of the world so that men (humans) modeled by a deity could develop. With some variants, in all accounts (Assyrian, Phoenician, Sumerian, Babylonian, Hebrew) they relate to snakes, trees of life or knowledge and a divine punishment by which human beings lose some favor or condition. The best known today is the one listed in the Genesis of the Tanakh or the Old Testament. See Paradise, Garden of Eden.