There were giants before and after a flood
[10] And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.[11] The earth also was corrupt before God the Elohim, and the earth was filled with violence.[12] And God the Elohim looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.[13] And God the Elohim said unto Noah, The end of all flesh altered life is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.[14] Make thee you an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.[15] And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits 135 meters, the breadth of it fifty cubits 22.5 meters, and the height of it thirty cubits 13.5 meters.[16] A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.[17] And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh altered life, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing altered thing that is in the earth shall die.[18] But with thee you will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy your sons, and thy your wife, and thy your sons' wives with thee you.[19] And of every living thing of all original flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee you; they shall be male and female.[20] Of fowls after their kind original fowls, and of cattle after their kind original cattle, of every original creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.[21] And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.[22] Thus did Noah; according to all that God the Elohim commanded him, so did he.
This genealogy in Genesis 5 directly precedes Genesis 6, which describes increasing human population and wickedness, leading to God's decision to send the flood.
Genesis 7 - Noah and the Flood
These constructs suggest the ages convey theological truths, such as divine order, generational symmetry (10 patriarchs pre-Flood, mirroring 10 post-Flood), and harmony, rather than biological facts.
The Atrahasis Epic is another ancient Mesopotamian text, dating back to around 1700 BCE, which tells a similar story of a great flood.
Eventually, Enlil decides to unleash a devastating flood to annihilate humanity.
The Atrahasis Epic is considered one of the earliest known accounts of a great flood and shares similarities with other flood myths, including the biblical story of Noah.
The Sumerian Flood Story (known as the `Eridu Genesis‘) which tells the same story, is certainly older (composed c.
2300 BCE) and Tablet XI of The Epic of Gilgamesh, which also relates the tale of the Great Flood, is even older than that.
6oo years, less than 6oo, passedAnd the country became too wide, the people toonumerous.The country was as noisy as a bellowing bull.The God grew restless at their clamour,Ellil had to listen to their noise.He addressed the great gods,'The noise of mankind has become too much.I am losing sleep over their racket.Cut off food supplies to the people!Let the vegetation be too scant for their hunger !Let Adad wipe away his rain.Below (?) let no flood-water flow from thesprings.Let wind go, let it strip the ground bare,Let clouds gather (but) not drop rain,Let the field yield a diminished harvest,Let Nissaba stop up her bosom.No happiness shall come to them.Let their [ ] be dejected.'(gap of about 34 lines to end of column)u (gap of about 12 lines at beginning ofcolumn)'Call the [elders, the senior men],Start an uprising in your house,Let heralds proclaim …
Above, [rain did not fill the canals(?)]Below, flood-water did not flow from the springs.Earth's womb did not give birth,No vegetation sprouted …People did not look [ ]The dark pastureland was bleached,The broad countryside filled up with alkali.
' Ea made his voice heard and spoke,Said to Atrahasis,'Order the heralds to proclaim,To make a loud noise in the land:Do not revere your gods,Do not pray to your goddesses![ ] withhold his rites![ ] the flour as an offering[ ] to her presence[ ] say a prayer[ ] the presents [his "hand" .'Ellil organized his assembly,Addressed the gods his sons,'You are not to inflict disease on them again,(Even though) the people have not diminishedthey are more than before!I have become restless at their noise,Sleep cannot overtake me because of their racket!Cut off food from the people,Let vegetation be too scant for their stomachs!Let Adad on high make his rain scarce,Let him block below, and not raise flood-waterfrom the springs!
became too scant for their stomachs.Adad on high made his rain scarce,Blocked below, and did not raise flood-water fromthe springs.The field decreased its yield,Nissaba turned away her breast,The dark fields became white,The broad countryside bred alkali.Earth clamped down her womb:No vegetation sprouted, no grain grew.Asakku was inflicted on the people.The womb was too tight to let a baby out.
Ea kept guard over the bolt that bars the sea,Together with his lahmu-heroes.Above, Adad made his rain scarce,Blocked below, and did not raise flood-water fromthe springs.The field decreased its yield,Nissaba turned away her breast,The dark fields became white,The broad countryside bred alkali.Earth clamped down her womb:No vegetation sprouted, no grain grew.Asakku was inflicted on the people,The womb was too tight to let a baby out.(gap of 2 lines)When the second year arrivedThey had depleted the storehouse.When the third year arrived[The people's looks] were changed [by starvation].When the fourth year arrivedTheir upstanding bearing bowed,Their well-set shoulders slouched,People went out in public hunched over.When the fifth year arrived,
'[You] imposed your loads on man,You bestowed noise on mankind,You slaughtered a god together with hisintelligence,You must … and [create a flood] .It is indeed your power that shall be used against[your people!]You agreed to [the wrong (?)] plan!Have it reversed!
And spoke to his brother gods,'Why should you make me swear an oath?Why should I use my power against my people?The flood that you mention to mt.~What is it?
I don't even know!Could I give birth to a flood?That is Ellil' s kind of work!Let him choose [ ]Let Shullat and [Hanish] march [ahead][Let Erakal pull out] the mooring polesLet [Ninurta] march, let him make [the weirs]overflow.(gap of 2 or 3 lines to end of column)
Reject possessions, and save living things.The boat that you build[[Roof it like the ApsuSo that the Sun cannot see inside it!Make upper decks and lower decks.The tackle must be very strong,The bitumen strong, to give strength.I shall make rain fall on you here,A wealth of birds, a hamper ( ?) of fish.'He opened the sand clock and filled it,He told him the sand (needed) for the Flood wasSeven nights' worth.Atrahasis received the message.He gathered the elders at his door.Atrahasis made his voice heardAnd spoke to the elders,'My god is out of favour with your god.Enki and [Ellil (?)] have become angry with eachother.They have driven me out of [my house].Since I always stand in awe of Enki,He told (me) of this matter.I can no longer stay in [ JI cannot set my foot on Ellil's territory (again).[I must go down to the Apsu and stay] with (my)god(?).This is what he told me.'(gap of 4 or 5 lines to end of column)n (gap of about 9 lines)The elders [The carpenter [brought his axe,]The reed worker [brought his stone,][A child brought] bitumen.The poor [fetched what was needed.]
Everything there was [Everything there was [Pure ones [Fat ones [ ]He selected [and put on board.][The birds] that fly in the sky,Cattle [of Shak]kan,Wild animals (?) [l[] of open country,he] put on boardl … He invited his people [[ ] to a feast.[ ] he put his family on board.They were eating, they were drinking.But he went in and out,Could not stay still or rest on his haunches,His heart was breaking and he was vomiting bile.The face of the weather changed.Adad bellowed from the clouds.When (?) he (Atrahasis) heard his noise,Bitumen was brought and he sealed his door.While he was closing up his doorAdad kept bellowing from the clouds.The winds were raging even as he went up(And) cut through the rope, he released the boat.m (6 lines missing at beginning of column)Anzu was tearing at the sky with his talons,[ ] the land,He broke [[ ] the Flood [came out (?)].JlThe kasiisu-weapon went against the people like anarmy.No one could see anyone else,They could not be recognized in the catastrophe.The Flood roared like a bull,Like a wild ass screaming the winds [howled]The darkness was total, there was no sun.[ ] like white sheep.[ ] of the Flood.
[[[[Myths from Mesopotamiall] the noise of the Flood.l[Anu (?)] went berserk,[The gods (?)] ..
As for me, how am I to live (?) in a house ofbereavement?My noise has turned to silence.Could I go away, up to the skyAnd live as in a cloister(?)?What was Anu's intention as decision-maker?It was his command that the gods his sonsobeyed,He who did not deliberate, but sent the Flood,He who gathered the people to catastrophe[ l
(So that) they could clog the river likedragonflies ?They are washed up (?) like a raft on [a bank (?)],They are washed up like a raft on a bank in opencountry!I have seen, and wept over them!Shall I (ever) finish weeping for them?'She wept, she gave vent to her feelings,Nintu wept and fuelled her passions.The gods wept with her for the country.She was sated with grief, she longed for beer (invain).Where she sat weeping, (there the great gods) sattoo,But, like sheep, could only fill their windpipes (withbleating).Thirsty as they were, their lipsDischarged only the rime of famine.For seven days and seven nightsThe torrent, storm and flood came on.(gap of about 58 lines)
(8 lines missing at beginning of column)How we sent the Flood.But a man survived the catastrophe.You are the counsellor of the gods;On your orders I created conflict.Let the Igigi listen to this songIn order to praise you,And let them record (?) your greatness.I shall sing of the Flood to all people: 46Listen!(Colophon) 47The End.
Behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the lands of the earth, and I will destroy all flesh wherein is the breath of life.
But my covenant is with my chosen, who should not be destroyed by the flood of waters.
Carlson highlights how cultures worldwide, from ancient Peruvians to Egyptians and Mexicans, synchronized their calendars with the Pleiades’ rising, associating this time with flood and fire myths.
Stories of the Great Flood are also known in other parts of the world, like North America and Australia.
It's not unimaginable that there was a period during the younger dryas with many great floods.
In the Bible, specifically in the book of Genesis, there is a reference to a decrease in lifespan after the Great Flood.
Genesis 7 – The flood
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.
Across Mesopotamia and the Bible, three named flood survivors keep the same deep pattern: a warning, a boat, the seed of life, landing, and a gift or covenant after the waters fall.
They are one flood-survivor map told under Sumerian, Akkadian, and Hebrew names, with a later Greek Babylonian form of Ziusudra surviving as Xisuthrus in Berossus.
I read that map as memory of real deep-time upheaval, open to paleo-contact and worldwide flood trails.
Ziusudra (also Zi-ud-sura) is the Sumerian flood survivor.
On the Sumerian King List he is the last king of Shuruppak before the flood.
Utnapishtim (Ut-napishtim) is the Akkadian / Babylonian flood survivor in Epic of Gilgamesh Tablet XI.
In the related Akkadian stream he sits beside Atrahasis (Atra-hasīs, “exceedingly wise”), another flood hero of the same complex.
Noah is the Hebrew Bible flood survivor in Genesis 6-9.
The Eridu Genesis is the surviving Sumerian flood story that modern scholars name for its Eridu / creation-to-flood spine.
What remains still carries Ziusudra’s warning, the seven-day flood, the opening of the boat to the sun, sacrifice, and eternal life in Dilmun.
All the evil winds, all stormy winds gathered into one and with them, the Flood was sweeping over the cities of the half-bushel baskets, for seven days and seven nights.
After the flood had swept over the country, after the evil wind had tossed the big boat about on the great waters, the sun came out spreading light over heaven and earth.
Meaning: Ziusudra is the oldest named Mesopotamian flood king in this trail.
Utnapishtim tells the flood in the first person.
The Great Gods decide on a Flood.
Six days and seven nights came the wind and flood, the storm flattening the land.
Atrahasis sits in the same Akkadian flood complex.
Meaning: Utnapishtim is the Akkadian flood survivor with the full bird sequence.
Genesis 6-9 tells Noah’s flood in the Hebrew Bible.
Then comes sacrifice and covenant: never again destroy all flesh by flood (Genesis 9).
Paleo-contact and deep-time flood readings sit welcome beside the text: a survivor line, a craft, a bird test, and a post-flood settlement of seed.
Storm or flood duration (seven-day Mesopotamian storm; forty-day Genesis rain tradition)
His flood hero is Xisuthrus, the Greek form of Ziusudra.
Cronus appeared to Xisuthrus in a dream and revealed that on the fifteenth of the month Daisios mankind would be destroyed by a great flood.
After the flood, the bird test:
After the waters of the Great Flood had come and quickly left, Xisuthrus freed several birds.
Indigenous American flood trails sit here as labeled comparative neighbors, not as proof that every tribe tells Gilgamesh.
A boat rides out the flood and lands on Santa Rosa.
Sin and upheaval drive the flood memory.
I use these as worldwide flood-survivor neighbors.
That can sit beside flood memory as supporting deep-time upheaval.
Sister geology on this site is the Altai flood: a physical megaflood trail with field landforms.
The three-name map gives me Mesopotamia-to-Bible flood-survivor continuity: Ziusudra, Utnapishtim, Noah, with Berossus holding Ziusudra as Xisuthrus.
The Altai flood is the physical megaflood sister.
The Nephilim hold the antediluvian and post-flood hybrid layer beside Genesis.
Worldwide flood survivors read, for me, as memory of real deep-time upheaval.
Atlantis sits as a later continental flood layer only when that trail is already in view; this page’s spine is the three named survivors.
They are three flood survivors in one comparative tradition: Sumerian Ziusudra (Eridu Genesis), Akkadian Utnapishtim (Gilgamesh XI / Atrahasis neighborhood), and biblical Noah (Genesis 6-9).
The Akkadian flood hero of Epic of Gilgamesh Tablet XI.
As the Mesopotamia-to-Bible flood-survivor spine, soft-linked to Manu, Altai megaflood geology, creation-stories recreation, Dead Sea destruction geography, and the Nephilim antediluvian layer.
Vaivasvata Manu: Indo flood survivor / seed-of-life neighbor.
Altai flood: geological megaflood sister trail.
The Nephilim: antediluvian / post-flood hybrid layer.
Utnapishtim - Human who was granted immortality by the gods and survived the Great Flood
Ziusudra - Human hero who survived the Great Flood and was granted immortality by the gods
According to the myth, Tezcatlipoca grew angry with the people of earth and decided to destroy the planet with a great flood.
This makes me think of the following, did 2 planets in our solar system crash and caused a great rain of asteroids on earth, causing the great flood?