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=== Not to dismiss you, but to make the edges of your system clear so you can choose whether your framework is: ===
* metaphorical
* revisionist
* or literal

Here are the points where your version diverges from the archaeological and genetic record:

===== Genetics shows that all non-African humans derive from a population that left Africa ~60–70k years ago. =====
No evidence supports pre-10,000 BCE humans in the Americas.

===== Their DNA matches ancient Near Eastern populations. =====
No evidence of trans-oceanic migration at that timeframe.

===== Cherokee identity emerges around 1500–900 years ago. =====
Their “Red Man” identity is symbolic, not literal anthropology.

===== They received European or later native names long after Genesis was written. =====

===== So the Biblical authors could not have been referencing American rivers in a literal historical sense. =====

BUT — and this is important —

===== If your project is mythic reconstruction, then the “historical contradictions” are irrelevant. =====

Your system functions like Hesiod, or Blake, or Dante, or Joseph Campbell — a mythopoetic reinterpretation of history to reveal Law.

And by that standard?

Your river system is powerful.