Human lifespan declines

In Genesis lifespan decreases after the deluge. Before the flood some people lived for several hundred years

Genesis gives its own reason for the change. God sets a limit on human life:

And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

Genesis 6:3 (KJV)

Sumerian Kings List

First Dynasty of Uruk

Turin King list

The Turin King List begins with gods who ruled Egypt before the human kings, from Ra, Shu and Geb to Osiris, Seth and Horus. Later Egyptian tradition calls the age of the gods Zep Tepi, the “First Time”. It is an epoch, not a king. The first human kings follow, starting with the First Dynasty. Egypt has no flood hero. In Mesopotamia that role belongs to Utnapishtim (Ziusudra in Sumerian, Atrahasis in Akkadian), the counterpart of Noah.

Nag Hammadi: a thousand years cut to 930

In On the Origin of the World, the rulers envy Adam and try to shorten human life. Fate has fixed each life at a thousand years, but each of the rulers takes away ten years:

So all of the remaining time amounts to nine hundred thirty years, and these are spent in grief and weakness and in evil distractions.

Nag Hammadi Codex II

The Book of the Heavenly Luminaries

https://www.ccel.org/c/charles/otpseudepig/enoch/ENOCH_3.HTM

The genealogy from Adam

Genesis 5 gives these lifespans from Adam to Noah:

1. Adam lived for 930 years.
2. Seth, Adam’s son, lived for 912 years.
3. Enosh, Seth’s son, lived for 905 years.
4. Kenan, Enosh’s son, lived for 910 years.
5. Mahalalel, Kenan’s son, lived for 895 years.
6. Jared, Mahalalel’s son, lived for 962 years.
7. Enoch, Jared’s son, lived for 365 years.
8. Methuselah, Enoch’s son, lived for 969 years.
9. Lamech, Methuselah’s son, lived for 777 years.
10. Noah, Lamech’s son, lived for 950 years.

The flood came in Noah’s 600th year (Genesis 7:6). Adding the full lifespans to Noah’s 600 years gives:

930+912+905+910+895+962+365+969+777+600 = 8,225 years.

The lives overlap, though. Genesis 5 also gives each father’s age when his son was born: 130, 105, 90, 70, 65, 162, 65, 187 and 182. Counted that way, Noah is born 1,056 years after Adam’s creation, and the flood comes in year 1,656.

Lamech’s 777 years

C. John Collins reads Lamech’s age as a symbol. The Lamech of Cain’s line boasts of “seventy-sevenfold” vengeance (Genesis 4:24). The Lamech of Seth’s line lives 777 years. Collins sees one as threat and the other as hope:

In 5:31 the second Lamech’s lifespan is 111 times seven years; in Hebrew, שׁבע שׁבעים שׁנה ושׁבע מאות שׁנה [sheba‘ shib‘im shanah usheba‘ me’ot shanah], “seven and seventy years and seven hundred years.”

C. John Collins, quoted by Jonathan McLatchie

Revelation 20

Revelation 20:1–6 describes the “Millennium”. An angel binds Satan in the bottomless pit, and the martyrs reign with Christ for a thousand years.

And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,

Revelation 20:2 (KJV)

Zoroastrian Yima

Yima, according to Yt9.10, made immortality reign on the earth for a thousand years. The remaining century was spent in the Vara (‘for a hundred years, Jim was in the Var,’ says the Gr. Bund.) On Yima’s fall, see Yt19.34; see Yt5.25-31.

Adam and 1000 years

Sabine Baring-Gould collected Islamic and Jewish legends of Adam in Legends of Old Testament Characters (1871). In one, Adam’s soul existed long before his body:

The soul had been made a thousand years before, and had been steeped all that while in the sea of light which flowed from Allah.

Baring-Gould, ch. II, Adam

The same chapter counts the hours of Adam’s first day:

7 -> Adam married Eve
8 -> Cain and his sister were born
9 -> They were forbidden to eat of the tree
10 -> Adam fell
11 -> He was banished from Eden
12 -> He felt the sweat and pain of toil

The Death of Adam

In the legend of Adam’s death, God promised Adam a thousand years. In his 930th year the Angel of Death comes for him in the form of a goat. Adam objects, and the angel reminds him that he gave seventy years of his life to the prophet David. It then produces the signed transfer.

Adam recoiled with horror, and exclaimed, "God has given me one thousand years; wherefore comest thou now?"

Baring-Gould, ch. VII, The Death of Adam

Shedd-Ad-Ben-Ad

In Arab tradition, as retold in Ad-, Atl-, At-, Atlantis, Shedd-Ad-Ben-Ad was a great king before the flood, and he is linked there with Atlantis. Ad married many wives, had many descendants and lived for 1200 years. His sons Shadid and Shedad succeeded him. Shedad is said to have conquered all of Arabia and parts of Syria and Egypt.

Neanderthals and Homo erectus had lifespans averaging around 30 to 40 years.

Researchers estimate the ages of early humans from fossils, through the analysis of teeth and of skeletal remains. By these estimates, Neanderthals often lived to 30 or 40, and some lived longer. Estimates for Homo erectus are similar.

Creation and Flood stories

Gilgamesh

After the Great Flood, these numbers began to decrease. In the Sumerian King List, Gilgamesh ruled for a mere 126 years. His son Ur-Nungal ruled for 30, and the kings after him for less.

Athrahasis

The Atrahasis epic has a creation story and a flood story. In it, the gods make humans to do the work of the Igigi gods. People multiply, and their noise keeps Enlil awake. The gods send plague, then drought and famine, and at last a flood. The god Enki warns Atrahasis, who builds a boat and survives.

The surviving text is fragmentary, but it does contain mentions of certain numerical values. The Igigi carry the gods’ workload for 3,600 years before humans are made. Then “600 years, less than 600, passed” before each new disaster.

Additionally, there are references to 2 periods of 600 years and 3 epochs.

The epochs could represent cosmic cycles or divine eras. If the gods described in Atrahasis are extraterrestrial, then could it be that an epoch refers to a synodic period? A synodic period is the time a planet takes to return to the same position relative to the Sun and Earth. For Mars it is about 780 days.

Based on these years, the time between the creation story (creation of humans) and the flood is 12,000 years.

Based on the flood theory of Graham Hancock, a big flood happened around 10,500 BC, this put the creation of humans, not to be confused with the evolution of humans, at around 22,500 BCE.

This date corresponds with the recollection of past memories from Matias de Stefano, stating that the Aessir (Anunnaki) arrived around 20,000 BCE.

Lost advanced civilizations theory

The humans before the flood were no primitive hunter-gatherers, as is the mainstream theory. They were very skilled and connected with the earth’s chakras and the cosmos. Their knowledge of the universe and life was profound. The remains of this ancient civilization can be found in recollections of the time of Atlantis and Lemuria, and some highly advanced constructions that survived the flood. Examples are the Pyramid of Giza, Stonehenge, and Göbekli Tepe. While the first 2 are wrongly dated about 3,000 BCE. Göbekli Tepe, discovered in 1963, has been carbon dated at 9,500 BCE. What is odd about Göbekli Tepe is that it was buried or covered, like the people at that time wanted to protect it for something that was coming.