KUR-GAL
The Sumerian people of Enoch’s time had a word KUR.GAL which meant “Great Land” but also Great Mountain and KUR itself could mean the Underworld. The Book of Enoch contains descriptions of a huge throne room of God like a massive crystal cave and describes other huge caverns with smooth walls below a great mountain where the spirits of the dead reside. It leads to the possibility that both the Underworld and the throne of God are under the same high mountain, the place of God’s throne in one of two connected caverns - a chamber and an antechamber - higher up than the four chambers of the Underworld. The Book of Revelation speaks of spirits or souls “beneath the throne” and it might be that they are in one of the underworld caverns literally some way down beneath the throne cavern. Which mountain? Enoch describes it being a very high mountain. Traditions and other Sumerian texts hint at it being in the Zagros range in Iran. The word in Persian (Farsi, language of Iran) for mountain is the word used for Underworld in Sumerian texts, Kur. So this shows there is a historic link and mountains in the great Zagros range are called Kur as are some place names. The highest mountain in the Zagros is the highest in all the Middle East, Mount Damavand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Damavand . Could this be location of God’s heavenly place and of the Underworld too? Ancient traditions support this possibility, either regarding Damavand or the range of mountains around it.
