14The peaceful meadow was a place suitable for the soul to acclimate to the condition of being separated from the body. In the Persian tradition a zoological and botanical garden, such as those sponsored by kings, was called a parai-daeza — “wall-surrounded.” To the Greeks this became a paradeisos (Foster, 1999). The Yawist tradition [Genesis 2, abt 725 B.C.] has our first parents placed in a paradise, and later banned from it. Jesus told the rebel (malfactor) on the cross that he would meet him there shortly [Luke 23:39-43, bef 75 A.D.].