The whole mass of people, thus arranged in concentric rings of flashing colour, swept slowly, steadily round like a colossal living wheel, and, under the flood of living light poured down by that all but tropical Sun, they formed perhaps as brilliant a spectacle as the world has ever seen.
He links the Bible to abduction and hybrid stories from Ghana and other places, to flood and creation accounts, and to the Nephilim.
Flood stories
This event is the basis of the legendary flood of Noah.
Hörbiger claimed that Earth and other planets have had multiple moons made of ice that periodically crash into the planets, causing cataclysmic events such as floods and changes in climate.
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 names are not in the Sumerian King List itself, but the Uruk List pairs each sage with one of the kings who ruled before the Flood.
The seven Apkallu lived before the Great Flood.
Utuabzu: the seventh and last sage before the Flood, in the reign of Enmeduranki, king of Sippar View Map, the city of the sun god Shamash.
The seven Apkallu stand for the work of civilizing humanity before the Flood.
Their knowledge was passed down to human successors, the ummânū (scholars), who served as sages and advisors to kings after the Flood.
After the Flood, the Apkallu were followed by human priest-sages, the ummânū.
They are studied alongside ancient flood myths and stories of beings who bring civilization in other 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.
By that count he died five years before the Flood.
A flood will cleanse the earth, and this child and his three sons will be saved.
Rogers to the Mesopotamian tradition of seven heroes before the flood who brought arts and crafts to humankind.
The descendants of Cain, including Irad, are part of the narrative that traces the lineages before the Great Flood.
After the flood Noah planted a vineyard, "drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent" (Genesis 9:21, KJV).
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.
Built two pillars inscribed with his knowledge to preserve it through the coming floods, one of brick and one of stone.
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
Egypt has no flood hero.
The flood came in Noah’s 600th year (Genesis 7:6).
Counted that way, Noah is born 1,056 years after Adam’s creation, and the flood comes in year 1,656.
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.
After the Great Flood, these numbers began to decrease.
The Atrahasis epic has a creation story and a flood story.
The gods send plague, then drought and famine, and at last a flood.
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.
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.