Garden Eden
The Biblical garden Eden spells out the term “hidden luxury”: The garden is gn, which is derived from an “enclosure”, which also means “protecting” & “hiding” (English garden may also be derived from guarding). The name עדן ˁdn ˁeden is a word that means “luxury”. The garden Eden may thus be a spooky pun to explain how the spook rulers needed to hide their loot from their looted subjects. (And “hidden delights” may be a secondary pun about sexuality, as with the Tree of Knowledge.)
Hebrew, Aramaic gn = garden, cover, hiding
גן gn :
an enclosure, garden (as fenced)
— Old Hebrew (Strong)
גנה gnh ganah :
to cover, be covered; to overshadow, to obscure
— Hebrew (Jastrow)
גנן gnn :
to defend, protect, guard, shelter
— Hebrew (Klein)
גני gny :
hide, hidden; close, retain; hide oneself, remove oneself
— Aramaic (CAL)
Hebrew, Aramaic ˁdn = Eden, luxury
עדן ˁdn :
Eden: the garden home of Adam and Eve
— Old Hebrew (Strong)
עדן ˁdn :
refreshment; pleasure; the garden of Eden; paradise
— Hebrew (Jastrow)
עדן ˁdn :
pleasure, delight, luxury
— Hebrew (Klein)
