This event is the basis of the legendary flood of Noah.
The theory posits that many of Earth's geological and climatic changes, as well as historical catastrophes described in myth and legend (such as the Great Flood), can be attributed to the impacts and influences of these ice moons.
The 10 Patriarchs before and 10 after the Flood
The Apkallu are often listed as seven sages who existed before the Great Flood.
These sages are considered semi-divine beings sent by the god Enki (Ea) to teach humanity and establish civilization before the Great Flood.
Seventh and final sage before the Great Flood.
These seven Apkallu are symbolic of the civilizing efforts made before the Flood.
Their knowledge was preserved and handed down through their human successors (the um-manū), who continued to serve as sages and advisors to kings after the Flood.
The Atra-Hasis Epic: The Apkallu play a role in aiding humans before the Flood, emphasizing their guidance and wisdom.
After the Flood, the Apkallu were replaced by human priest-sages (referred to as "um-manū").
They are studied in relation to ancient flood myths and narratives of civilizing entities across different cultures.
But they became wicked, and a flood came and swept them away.
I also keep flood survivors, the Elohim, and the creation stories in view.
On this site I put Pre-Adamites with deep-time humanity, with giants, and with flood survivors.
So do flood figures who start humanity again, such as Manu.
The Flood is partial.
The Flood reads as regional, or limited to Adam’s race, in his model.
Flood / Noah is the reset question.
La Peyrère’s partial flood leaves room for other survivors and other lines.
I keep the Dead Sea for the geography of destruction next to flood and judgment stories.
I read Pre-Adamites, Nephilim, and flood survivors as a long human story next to the biblical Adam.
Utnapishtim, Ziusudra, and Noah holds flood survivors and a deep-time flood.
He argued for a partial Flood.
The close pages are Nephilim, creation stories, Utnapishtim / Noah flood survivors, Elohim, and Dead Sea geography.
Utnapishtim, Ziusudra, and Noah: flood survivors and deep-time deluge.
Disgusted by all this, "the Gods" decided to have a Great Flood to rid the earth of the Nephilim and other ghastly creatures (according to the Book of Enoch.
7 Therefore will I bring over them the waters of a flood, and overwhelm them all.
He is noted for living 777 years and for his role in the narrative leading up to the biblical Flood.
He died five years before the Flood.
The descendants of Cain, including Irad, are part of the narrative that traces the lineages before the Great Flood.
After the flood, Ham discovered Noah drunk and naked in his tent.
In Hindu tradition, Vaivasvata Manu is the flood survivor who seeds a new age of humanity after the waters rise.
The word Manu is linked to the root man-, “to think.” So Manu is not only a flood hero.
The earliest extended Vedic flood narrative for Manu sits in the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa 1.8.1.
It warns that a flood will carry away all creatures.
The flood sweeps all creatures away.
It spake to him the word, 'Rear me, I will save thee!' 'Wherefrom wilt thou save me?' 'A flood will carry away all these creatures: from that I will save thee!'
Thereupon it said, 'In such and such a year that flood will come.
to my advice) by preparing a ship; and when the flood has risen thou shalt enter into the ship, and I will save thee from it.'
When the flood rises, Manu ties the rope to the fish’s horn:
The flood then swept away all these creatures, and Manu alone remained here.
It answers who Vaivasvata Manu is in the early Vedic flood trail: the solitary survivor who restarts humanity after the waters.
I use the Puranic layer as later Hindu memory of the same flood-progenitor role.
Both become progenitors after a world-flood.
After the flood, Manu generates a new race through sacrifice and offspring; Noah’s covenant story runs through Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
A Mesopotamian third witness sits in Ziusudra’s Flood.
How I use the parallel: as cross-cultural flood memory, not as a name-equation.
That page also carries the Isis Unveiled trail linking Atlantis submersion to Babylonian and Mosaic flood stories.
First, Satapatha Brahmana gives me the earliest clear Manu flood narrative: unnamed fish, ship, northern mountain, Manu alone remaining.
Third, Theosophy reads Vaivasvata Manu as Fifth Race Manu after the Fourth Race / Atlantis flood.
Flood parallels across cultures matter to me as possible memory of catastrophic water events.
Who was Vaivasvata Manu?Vaivasvata Manu is the solar-line Manu of the present age in Hindu framing: son of Vivasvan (the Sun), flood progenitor, and lawgiver of a manvantara.
In Satapatha Brahmana he alone survives the flood after a fish warns him to prepare a ship.
They share parallel roles as warned flood survivors and post-flood progenitors.
Genesis 7: Noah flood spine for the honest Manu–Noah parallel.
Ziusudra’s Flood: Mesopotamian flood survivor as a third witness beside Manu and Noah.
Helena Blavatsky’s Root Races: Fourth Atlantean / Fifth Aryan overview and flood allegories.
Within Islamic tradition Seth holds wisdom of several kinds; knowledge of time, prophecy of the future Great Flood, and inspiration on the methods of night prayer.
Seth received prophecies about the world's future, including the Flood and the coming Messiah.
12,800 BCE Great Flood
A flood destroys all flesh on Earth except for those on Noah’s Ark.
Before the flood some people lived for several hundred years
While the Bible provides a religious explanation for this change, from a historical and scientific perspective, several theories have been proposed to explain the decrease in lifespan after the flood.
In the Turin King List, the figure connected with the Great Flood is Zep Tepi, also known as the "First Time." This term doesn't correspond to a single king but rather to a mythical epoch in ancient Egyptian chronology that is said to have preceded the Great Flood.
However, in Sumerian and Babylonian traditions, which often intertwine with Egyptian ones in the study of ancient Near Eastern history, the figure of Utnapishtim (also known as Ziusudra in Sumerian or Atrahasis in Akkadian) is the equivalent of Noah and is directly connected to the Great Flood myth.
The flood is said to have occurred in Noah’s 600th year.
If you add up the ages, starting with the birth of Adam to the birth of Noah, and then add Noah’s age at the time of the flood (600 years), the total time from the Garden of Eden to the flood is:
After the Great Flood, these numbers began to decrease until Gilgamesh ruled for a mere 126 years,followed by others whose reigns were in only the double-digit range.
The Atrahasis is an ancient Mesopotamian epic that contains a creation myth as well as a flood story.
When these measures fail to reduce the noise, the god Enlil decides to send a great flood to wipe out humanity.
Atrahasis, the protagonist of the story, is warned about the flood by the god Enki, who instructs him to build an ark to save himself, his family, and pairs of animals.
Atrahasis follows Enki's instructions, survives the flood, and later offers sacrifices to the gods.
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.
The humans before the flood were no primitive hunter-gatherers, as is the mainstream theory.
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.
The story of Noah's Ark is a well-known biblical tale that tells the story of a global flood that destroyed all life on earth except for Noah, his family, and a pair of every animal species on the planet.
The story shares many similarities with the biblical account of the flood, including the building of an ark, the sending of birds to find dry land, and the salvation of a righteous man and his family.
However, there are also significant differences between the two versions, such as the length of the flood and the reason for God's decision to destroy the earth.
The Eridu Genesis tells the story of a great flood that is sent by the gods to destroy humanity because of their wickedness.
The flood is survived by a man named Ziusudra, who is instructed by the god Enki to build a large boat to carry himself, his family, and various animals to safety.
After the flood, Ziusudra lands on a mountaintop and offers sacrifices to the gods.
An excerpt from the Sumerian flood story known as the "Eridu Genesis," as translated by historian Thorkild Jacobsen:
This passage describes the instructions given to the hero of the story, Ziusudra (also known as Utnapishtim), by the god Enki to build a boat in preparation for the coming flood.
The full text of the Eridu Genesis, along with other Sumerian flood stories, can be found in various translations and editions of Sumerian literature.
Great Flood Stories World wide
And we move on with the story of the great flood.
Later on, you'll learn what the Garden of Eden is, and we dive deeper into the significance of Noah and the flood.
Through stories of worlds being destroyed by fire, ice, and flood, the Hopi convey a clear message: the survival of this current world hinges on our actions.
The narratives for the end of each world vary but typically involve great floods, fire, ice, or a combination of natural disasters.
Third World (World of Water): This world was obliterated by a great flood, a common theme in many cultures' mythologies, including the Biblical story of Noah's Ark.
The flood is another form of purification, clearing the way for a new beginning.
Noah's Ark (Genesis 8:7): After the great flood, Noah first sent out a raven to see if the waters had receded.
Moral-collapse stories beside flood and destruction legends already sit on the destruction of Atlantis described in the deluge legends.
I soft-link that trail beside flood and Atlantis destruction themes as interpretation.
God sends the Great Flood to rid the earth of the Nephilim, but sends Uriel to warn Noah, so as not to eradicate the human race.
He links Elohim to similar entities in other cultures, such as ilu/ilanu in Mesopotamia, Deva in India, Neteru in Egypt, and AEsir in northern Europe, suggesting they were advanced humans who survived ancient cataclysms like the flood.
The loss of Atlantis is also associated with the mythological Great Flood, which brought about the end of this ancient world.
Curse on the ground (Genesis 5:29) and the Flood
Flood and hybrid aftermath sit with the Nephilim.
Nephilim and flood aftermath sit on the Nephilim.
the Nephilim: Genesis hybrid / flood aftermath.