History of Paradise Quotes

“... the planispheres, world-maps and other maps produced in medieval workshops from the ninth to the twelfth centuries usually put the East at the top. Sacred history here determined geographical conceptions: the earthly paradise was situated at the beginning of the human enterprise and at the top of graphic representations. [. . ] From the sixteenth century on, the vast majority of world-maps have the North at the top and no longer suggest that the earthly paradise might still exist somewhere on our earth, somewhere to the East.”
― Jean Delumeau, History of Paradise: The Garden of Eden in Myth and Tradition