Bunsen's First Age of the World, the Historical Primeval World, runs from Creation to the Flood, B.C.
14,000 to 11,000, is the "Formation and Deposit of Khamism and the Flood", the Western Polarization of Sinism.
Then comes the Flood, a "Convulsion in Northern Asia".
His Second Age of the World, from the Flood to Abraham, then runs from B.C.
It is a timeline of key events and of the age of early civilizations, from the creation of man to the time of Christ, with the great floods along the way (pages 133 to 134).
Randolph holds that there were at least two great cataclysms in Asia and Africa, and others as large in America, which he links to the Flood.
Randolph accepts more than one flood.
One is the well-known Flood of Noah and Deucalion.
The “Flood,” itself, may be dismissed in a few words.
Vast floods of water rushed down from either pole; myriads of peoples, scores of nations, attained immortality in the twinkling of God’s eye; and their souls, in millions, rose to heaven and entered the portals of disbodied glory, while their fleshly forms sunk, food for fishes and for worms, leaving only here and there a fragmentary bone or skeleton, to become in future ages, after other upheavals, mute but eloquent witnesses to the fact that there did exist, once upon a time, Pre-Adamite races of men.
The particular event here alluded to, is the Oriental “Flood” of Noah, Deucalion and others.
The Creator was unhappy about this and decided to cause a great flood to purify the earth.
He sends successive punishments to reduce numbers: first a plague (carried by the god Namtar), then drought, famine, and finally the great flood.
Each time, the god Enki intervenes to help humans survive until the flood.
He brings life-giving rain but also destructive storms and floods.
To his surprise, the dog spoke to him and warned, "Very soon there is going to be a great flood, and the water will rise so high that everyone will drown.
However, before the flood comes, you must throw me into the water."
These were the remains of the people who had drowned in the flood.
Around 11,000 BC, a massive flood occurred on Earth.
This flood resulted from the Atlantean-Lemurian War.
Nearly every culture has a flood myth because Lemuria and Atlantis existed worldwide, not in single locations.
Archaeologists should consider why similar stories of floods and disasters appear across histories.
They had built the pyramids, on which Cheops put his name many thousands of years later; when Egypt was swamped by a flood, some seventy-seven thousand years ago, the people tried to climb these pyramids for safety, as the waters rose, but failed in consequence of the smoothness of their sides.
Based on the alignment with Orion, and the stories of Atlanteans moved away before the Great Flood (9,600 BCE), the date of 10,450 BCE fits the Great Pyramid better.
His interpretations of natural history and cosmology often had a biblical perspective, such as his map of the world after the Flood, which reflects the biblical narrative of Noah's Ark and the subsequent repopulation of the earth.
Kircher's "Map of the World after the Flood" reflects his attempt to reconcile scientific observation with religious belief.
15 The serpent spewed water like a river out of its mouth after the woman, in order to sweep her away in the flood;
The first four ages ended in cataclysmic destruction, with the fourth concluding in a massive flood.
Below is a focused explanation of these four ages, emphasizing the flood narrative, based on interpretations from the Codex Vaticanus and related sources like the Codex Chimalpopoca.
The flood marks the climax of the fourth age and serves as a transitional event to the present world.
They represent humanity's continuity, akin to flood survivors in other global myths.
Post-flood, their actions (e.g., cooking fish) lead to further divine adjustments, such as transforming fish into dogs.
Symbolism and Duration: The flood symbolizes purification and renewal.
The people of around Lake Eyre in South Australia tell how the ancestor male is prevented from capturing one of the seven sisters by a great flood.
"Then the flood swept over."
The settlement is named Eridu (later destroyed and rebuilt after the Great Flood of 9,600 BCE).
After the flood had swept over, and the kingship had descended from heaven, the kingship was in Kish.
Codex Vaticanus describes four ages of the world, with the last ending in a great flood.
Since Critias ends abruptly, the specifics of Zeus’s decision and Atlantis’s destruction (likely by flood or catastrophe, as implied in the related dialogue Timaeus) are not detailed.
“But afterwards there occurred violent earthquakes and floods, and in a single day and night of misfortune, the island of Atlantis disappeared into the depths of the sea.”
Noah also dealt with many messengers and warriors, above all when he organized defenses and prepared for the flood.
The floods drown large areas, including whole provinces like Tek-Ra.
They damage buildings, flood streets and make the land unlivable.
Floods and rotting bodies make conditions filthy.
Earthquakes, floods and eruptions grow more frequent and more violent.
The Travail of Earth The Flood lifts the Mexiah, the ark, and carries her east.
Greek mythology, which includes the Flood narrative and the Titans' rebellion, also points to a shared origin with Atlantis.
The Arabian traditions linked the pyramid with the Flood.
"The wise men, previous to the Flood, foreseeing an impending Judgment from heaven, either by submersion or fire, which would destroy every created thing, built upon the tops of the mountains in Upper Egypt many pyramids of stone, in order to have some refuge against the approaching calamity.
That Deluge-and-ark frame is why this trail also sits near Donnelly’s flood chapters, including the destruction of Atlantis described in the deluge legends.
The flood link is thematic.
He also tied Gothic flood legends, Krodo and Satar with Chronos and Saturn, and Baal with Bel in a Poseidon and Atlas orbit, toward a common origin that might be Atlantis.
The destruction of Atlantis described in the deluge legends: Donnelly’s flood and destruction spine beside the Votan ark-and-Deluge trail.
Donnelly writes that the land of the gods passed through a Golden Age and a Silver Age of peace, then a Bronze Age and an Iron Age, and was finally lost to a flood that Zeus sent as punishment.
Murray on the flood of Deucalion
Zeus determined to destroy the human race by a great flood.
Donnelly names the great king before the flood, in Muslim tradition, as Shedd-Ad-Ben-Ad, or Shed-Ad, "the son of Ad".
Donnelly took the "fall" to mean their destruction by a flood.
In Aztec tradition the fourth sun was Nahui-Atl, the Water Sun, ended by a flood (see The 5 Suns).
Flood legends from various cultures, including the Hindoos and the biblical story of Noah, point to an oceanic catastrophe.
These narratives align with the destruction of Atlantis by a great flood, reinforcing the historical basis of such myths.
We will see hereafter that the Hebrews and their Flood legend are closely connected with the Phœnicians, whose connection with Atlantis is established in many ways.
It will be more and more evident, as we proceed in the consideration of the Flood legends of other nations, that the Antediluvian World was none other than Atlantis.
In Atlantis: The Antediluvian World, Ignatius Donnelly gathers the flood stories of the Americas and reads them as memories of Atlantis.
Maury finds American flood stories closer to the Bible than any in the Old World, and cannot explain why.
In the "Popol Vuh" of the Quiché, the Heart of Heaven, Hurakan, sends the flood, and "a resinous thickness descended from heaven".
The Nicaraguans say most of mankind perished in a flood.
Among the Pimas, Szeu-kha, the son of the Creator, survives "by floating on a ball of gum or resin." Many of these stories are also gathered on https://drumsofatlantis.com/great-flood-stories-world-wide.
Donnelly also notes that several traditions keep a record safe from the flood.
He links this to a festival in the month Izcalli held to remember the destruction, to the "three terrible catastrophes" of the Welsh triads, and to the Greek flood of Ogyges before that of Deucalion.
Chaldean Legend: Xisuthros (Khasisatra) is warned by the god Cronos (Ea) of a flood.
After the flood, Xisuthros sacrifices to the gods and is taken to live among them.
Syrian Legend: Deucalion Sisythes builds a vessel and survives the flood with animals seeking refuge.
Zoroastrian Doctrine: Yima constructs a protected garden (vara) to preserve men, animals, and plants from a flood, with the help of the bird Karshipta.
Ogyges and Deucalion: Ogyges escapes a flood that covers the earth.
Regional Greek Legends: Various heroes like Megaros, Cerambos, and Merops survive floods by divine intervention or taking refuge on mountains.
Welsh Triads: Dwyfan and Dwyfach survive a flood in a vessel and repopulate Britain.
Scandinavian Edda: Bergelmir survives a flood of blood in a boat.
Persian Magi: A flood originates from an oven, a story later adapted by the Koran.
Atlantis Connection: Many legends, including those of the Greeks, indicate an Atlantean origin for the flood myth, with references to Poseidon (Neptune) and the "three worlds" of Atlantis.
Egyptian Silence: Egyptian records do not mention a flood, suggesting they preserved an accurate history of Atlantis's destruction and did not create flood myths.
Cosmos's Maps: Medieval maps by the monk Cosmos depicted a world surrounded by water, with lands beyond the ocean where pre-flood people lived, hinting at an awareness of Atlantis.
These legends collectively point to an ancient, widespread memory of a great flood, potentially linked to the historical events surrounding the destruction of Atlantis.
Ignatius Donnelly set two Chaldean flood stories side by side in Atlantis: The Antediluvian World, and he read both as memories of Atlantis.
Cronos warns Xisuthros of a flood and orders him to bury the writings and build a vessel.
It was under him that the Great Deluge took place, the history of which is told in the sacred documents as follows: Cronos (Ea) appeared to him in his sleep, and announced that on the fifteenth of the month of Daisios (the Assyrian month Sivan--a little before the summer solstice) all men should perish by a flood.
In the account Donnelly quotes from François Lenormant, it is the eleventh tablet of an epic of Uruk, in which the hero, sick with a kind of leprosy, seeks out Khasisatra, the survivor of the flood whom the gods made immortal.
In Donnelly's account: Chronos (Saturn): The god who warned of the flood is linked to a great civilization in the Atlantic, matching Atlantis’s description.
The Chaldean flood is a full cataclysm of thunder, earthquake and water-spout, which Donnelly compares with the "dreadful day and night" in Plato.