Many of my pages follow a single people or city: who they were, where they lived and what their own stories say about the deep past. This page groups them. The same set appears as a section on Cultures and Myths.
Before and after the Flood
I start with the peoples said to have lived before the Flood and the ones that spread out after it. Some of my sources trace them back to Atlantis.
The Nephilim, the line of Cain and the family of Adam through Seth to Noah.
The peoples in time order, from the Sumerians to the Romans.
Nimrod, the ziggurat and the reading of the tower as a launch tower or stargate, built on Jim Marrs and Zecharia Sitchin.
Ignatius Donnelly on the Aryans as the Japhetic race that came from Atlantis.
Diana Cooper on the priests and priestesses of Atlantis who led out twelve tribes.
The giants of the Bible, Og of Bashan and Deuteronomy 2:10-11.
As we know, in due time the prophecy was fulfilled, and in the year 9564 B. C. the island of Poseidonis sank beneath the Atlantic.
Mesopotamia and Persia
These are the peoples between the rivers and on the Iranian plateau. Their records hold the flood tablets of Nineveh and the star lore of the Chaldeans.
Sargon of Akkad around 2350 BC, and the Theosophical race of the same name said to have ruled Atlantis.
Nimrod, the exile, the star lore of the Chaldeans and the fall of the great city in Jeremiah and Revelation.
Nineveh, the flood tablets, the sacred tree and the finds of the nineteenth century.
Kyomarz, Mahabad and a calendar that starts close to the date Plato gives for the end of Atlantis.
The Levant
On the coast of the Levant I follow the Canaanites and Phoenicians, their cities and their far harbors.
The cities of the Levant and their gods Baal, El and Asherah.
The Phoenician cosmogony, Kronos against Ouranos, and Byblos.
More than five thousand years of Tyre, its colony Carthage and its purple dye.
Solomon's far harbors and the ship Jonah boarded.
Farther east and south
The last group goes to Ethiopia, China and India. I also put the first farmers and the Thousand and One Nights here.
Cush and the river Gihon, the churches cut into cliffs and an 81-book Bible.
Pangu, the Yellow Emperor and the theories of lost lands.
The Solar and Lunar dynasties of the Hindu Puranas.
Farming as a gift of teachers, and crops that have no known wild ancestor.
Scheherazade and the tales of the Thousand and One Nights.
