It is often associated with the four elements (earth, water, air, fire) and the four cardinal directions (north, south, east, west).
3 On the east, toward the sunrise, the divisions of the camp of Judah are to encamp under their standard.
38 Moses and Aaron and his sons were to camp to the east of the tabernacle, toward the sunrise, in front of the tent of meeting. They were responsible for the care of the sanctuary on behalf of the Israelites.
The idea so prevalent that man without woman, or woman without man, is an imperfect being, was the cause of the great repugnance with which the Jews and other nations of the East regarded celibacy.
This work is considered significant for its agricultural content and contributions to the broader cultural and scientific heritage of the ancient Middle East.
And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
This means that on Venus, the Sun would appear to rise in the west and set in the east.
Julius Eggeling’s translation in Sacred Books of the East volume 12 is the English text I quote below.
The Anunnaki established several laboratories on Earth, referred to as Gardens, with the primary one located in the Eden region of the Middle East, near the Euphrates River.
Mutwa's reference to the Abzu ties ancient African mining activities to a broader narrative that includes Sumerian myths, suggesting a deep historical and cultural link between African civilizations and those of the ancient Near East.
The Druids helped Jesus understand the old magic, and after learning all he could, he went east to continue his studies.
It was within such womb-like caves in Europe, and in the Middle and Far East, where most of my children were Light-conceived.
Traders and MerchantsThe Dutch East India Company and the British East India Company are examples of trading entities that played significant roles in colonization, especially in Asia.
The cities – Jabulqa in the east and Jabulsa in the west (called Djaboulqa and Djaboulsa in a well-known French translation of al-Tabari’s history) – were said to be made of emerald and were impossibly large, each measuring some 12,000 parasangs (at least 36,000 miles) long and 12,000 parasangs wide.
Hâreth coming up to him, saw him stretched from east to west, of huge size and as dry as dry palm leaves.
Prominent in the folklore of the Middle East and Islamic cultures, including regions like Egypt, Iran, and Iraq.
In Jewish folklore, which has influenced traditions in regions like Egypt and the broader Middle East, Shedim are spirits or demons.
The Agogwe are little human-like creatures reported in the forests of East Africa.
Thalan was this Aessir with all these other Aessirs that before they had this idea of creating what after was Atlantis, they would spread their regions in the Middle East.
Middle East was the main portal of the planet of that time.
And there was a war between the beings from the sky and the Giants on Earth that were held in a part of the Middle East and India.
They were able to live in Middle East in some regions of the Mediterranean Sea, in India and Pakistan.
They were gradually assimilated into the cultures and societies of Mesopotamia and the Near East.
Their portrayal in biblical texts highlights their significance in the ancient Near East:
This conquest reflects the dynamic and often violent nature of territorial disputes in the ancient Near East.
The Zuzim were said to inhabit the land of Ham, located east of the Jordan River, situated between Bashan and Moab.
The identification of the Zuzim with the Rephaim, specifically the Zamzummim, and their connection to the Emim reflect the complex ethnographic and cultural landscape of the ancient Near East as depicted in biblical texts.
The diverse portrayal of the Rephaim in biblical and ancient texts highlights their significant and complex role in the mythology, history, and religious practices of the ancient Near East.
He also frames it east-west from the Marianas to Easter Island, and north-south from Hawaii to Mangaia.
Rough size in his framing is about 5,000 miles east-west and over 3,000 north-south, larger than South America.
The main was in Eden, an area of the Middle East, near the Euphrates river.
They sail east and establish the kingdoms of Arnor and Gondor in Middle-earth, setting the stage for the events in "The Lord of the Rings."
(There are only a few entrances to this area, the rest have to be further north and east)
I simply told him I was from a foreign country in the east.
My house is located in the smallest underground facility east of here.
It began when there was the migration of those indigenous people in what you call your North and South America, the migration across the continents from west to east eventually creating the colony of Atlantis in the islands that you now recognize to some degree as the Bahamas and Cuba
"In the beginning, before the light of the sun had been created, this land (Cholula) was in obscurity and darkness, and void of any created thing; all was a plain, without hill or elevation, encircled in every part by water, without tree or created thing; and immediately after the light and the sun arose in the east there appeared gigantic men of deformed stature and possessed the land, and desiring to see the nativity of the sun, as well as his occident, proposed to go and seek them.
Dividing themselves into two parties, some journeyed to the west and others toward the east; these travelled; until the sea cut off their road, whereupon they determined to return to the place from which they started, and arriving at this place (Cholula), not finding the means of reaching the sun, enamored of his light and beauty, they determined to build a tower so high that its summit should reach the sky.
Their mental superiority and command of the arts gave them the character of giants who arrived from the East; who had divided into two great emigrations, one moving eastward (toward Europe), the other westward (toward America).
Both legends were probably derived from Atlantis, and referred to some gigantic structure of great height built by that people; and when the story emigrated to the east and west, it was in the one case affixed to the tower of the Chaldeans, and in the other to the pyramid of Cholula, precisely as we find the ark of the Deluge resting upon separate mountain-chains all the way from Greece to Armenia.
Both the Jews and Mexicans worshipped toward the east.
"And they set out from the east and they found a valley in the land of Shinar and they settled there." (Genesis 11:2).
A study in 2021 concluded that a distinctive Basal-East Asian lineage (sometimes termed as 'East- and Southeast Asian lineage' (ESEA)), which is ancestral to modern East and Southeast Asians, Polynesians, and Siberians, originated in Mainland Southeast Asia at ~50,000BC, and expanded through multiple migration waves southwards and northwards respectively.
Basal-East Asian ancestry, as well as later Austroasiatic-associated ancestry, spread into Maritime Southeast Asia prior to the Austronesian expansion.
The authors concluded that the Austronesian expansion into Insular Southeast Asia and Polynesia was outgoing from the Philippines rather than Taiwan, and that modern Austronesian-speaking peoples, such as the Malays, have largely ancestry from the earliest Basal-East Asians, Austroasiatic migrants from Mainland Southeast Asia, and Austronesian-speaking seafarers from the Philippines, without much admixture from previous groups.