Much has been said about these supposed columns, some connect them to the "Seriadic Columns" mentioned by Manetho, supposedly erected by Thoth before the great flood.Others bring up the "columns of Enoch" of extrabiblical memory, however they are not related to Atlantis.I think this legend of Egyptian monuments, where the story of Atlantis could be read, has some basis of truth, if you look at the Edfu temple texts for example, the Egyptian creation stories, island of fire / island of the flame etc...
And finally, there were also some Christian authors including Tertullian and Arnobius who accepted the existence of Atlantis, sometimes linking it to the story of Noah's flood...This is what many people do even today, and it's wrong on so many levels, for example the dates do not coincide...
But even more important, and I always point this out, if we make the mistake of reducing all the floods to just one, we are doing the exact mistake that the Egyptian priests met by Solon tell us not to do, they said we are like children if we think there was only one flood, because instead there were many floods and cataclysms.
Deucalion, son of Prometheus, and Pyrrha, daughter of Epimetheus, are the sole human survivors of the flood in Ovid's Metamorphoses Book 1.
So, when earth, caked in mud from the recent flood, possessed the sun’s heat after the high water had remained on it, she produced innumerable species, partly re-creating previous forms, partly generating new monsters.
This progression illustrates how virtue erodes over time, leading to divine punishment via a flood.
During the Iron Age, Jupiter, outraged by human depravity (exemplified by King Lycaon's actions), convened the gods and ended that age by sending a great flood to destroy most of humanity, sparing only Deucalion and Pyrrha.
However, his reign extends through the subsequent ages, culminating in his decision to end the Iron Age with a flood (lines 163–312).
He destroys most of humanity with a flood, sparing only Deucalion and Pyrrha to repopulate the earth.
Jupiter then tests humanity through Lycaon (lines 177–243), confirming their depravity, and resolves to flood the earth (lines 244–261):
Ended by Jupiter's intervention with a flood, sparing Deucalion and Pyrrha to repopulate the earth
Deucalion, son of Prometheus, and Pyrrha, daughter of Epimetheus, are the sole human survivors of the flood in Ovid's Metamorphoses Book 1.
Ended by Jupiter's intervention with a flood, sparing Deucalion and Pyrrha
Deucalion and Pyrrha are the sole human survivors of the flood, repopulate the earth
Zeus’s reign oversees the decline through the Silver, Bronze, and Iron Ages, culminating in the flood to end human corruption, followed by repopulation through Deucalion and Pyrrha.
Ended by Jupiter's (Zeus) intervention with a flood, sparing Deucalion and Pyrrha
Deucalion and Pyrrha are the sole human survivors of the flood, repopulate the earth
In Greek mythology, the story of Deucalion and Pyrrha, as the sole survivors of a great flood who repopulate the earth by throwing stones that become humans, is primarily detailed in Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Book 1, lines 348–415), a Roman work that draws heavily on Greek traditions.
However, Greek sources also preserve versions of this flood myth, and some continue or connect to the narrative of human renewal, though they vary in detail and focus.
Apollodorus’s Bibliotheca (1.7.2) provides a Greek version of the flood myth, closely paralleling Ovid’s account.
Deucalion, son of Prometheus, and Pyrrha, daughter of Epimetheus, survive a flood sent by Zeus to destroy the corrupt Bronze Age race.
"But Zeus, wishing to destroy the race of men, sent a flood upon the earth.
He describes them as surviving the flood and creating a new race from stones, connecting their act to the origins of the Opuntian people.
"When the dark cloud of the flood covered the earth, Deucalion and Pyrrha, leaving their ark, built their home on the heights of Parnassus.
While the flood and stone-throwing are not detailed in surviving fragments, the text continues the narrative by tracing their descendants, who shape the heroic age.
This connects the flood survivors to the heroic narratives of later Greek myths, such as the Trojan War.
Ovid’s Description: Dominated by greed, crime, and impiety, ended by Jupiter’s flood, sparing Deucalion and Pyrrha (Metamorphoses 1.128–312).
Verse (Flood): "He chose a different punishment: to drown mankind under the waves, sending rain from every quarter of the sky" (1.260–261).
Zeus’s decision to destroy Atlantis mirrors Jupiter’s flood in Ovid, both targeting human wickedness.
Atlantis could be a specific civilization within the Iron Age, destroyed by Zeus as part of or parallel to the broader flood that spares Deucalion and Pyrrha.
The catastrophic flood align with the Iron Age’s end, suggesting Atlantis as a localized example of divine judgment.
Connection: In Metamorphoses 1.275–292, Neptune (Poseidon) aids Jupiter’s flood, suggesting his role in both creating and destroying maritime civilizations like Atlantis, linking him to the Iron Age’s end.
While Hesiod does not mention Atlantis, his flood myth in Catalogue of Women (Fragment 2–5) connects Deucalion to Greek origins, paralleling Plato’s destruction of a corrupt society.
Deucalion, son of Prometheus, survives the flood in Ovid and Apollodorus.
Zeus’s punishment of Atlantis (Critias 121a–c) aligns with Jupiter’s flood to end the Iron Age (Metamorphoses 1.244–312), possibly as a localized event within a global deluge.
Plato’s Atlantis can be integrated into Ovid’s Iron Age as a civilization that rises under Poseidon’s Olympian influence and falls due to Zeus’s punishment for its corruption, paralleling the flood that ends the age.
Hesiod’s myths provide additional context, with Deucalion’s survival echoing broader Greek flood traditions.
Ended by Jupiter's (Zeus) intervention with a flood, sparing Deucalion and Pyrrha
Deucalion and Pyrrha are the sole human survivors of the flood, repopulate the earth
His actions, involving human sacrifice and cannibalism, exemplify the moral corruption of the Iron Age, prompting Jupiter to destroy humanity with a flood.
The biblical flood story, lasting 40 days and nights, could not cover Earth’s highest peaks like Mount Everest, as severe rain would only cause flash floods.
The priest describes a pre-flood Athenian civilization, renowned for its laws and deeds, existing 9,000 years before Solon’s time (circa 600 BCE), dating to around 11,600 years ago, aligning with the Pleistocene-to-Holocene transition and the Younger Dryas period.
Thoth’s teachings in the Emerald Tablets describe a post-flood mission to restore a high-level civilization in Khem.
Thoth used vibrational technology, like a stun weapon, to pacify post-flood barbarians.
"The flood primarily because the asteroidal or cometary body that slammed into what you call the Atlantic Ocean created great tsunamis that wiped out Atlantis but also affected many other parts of the nearby land masses..."
The flood narrative in the Bible is linked to the destruction of Atlantis, caused by a cometary or asteroidal impact in the Atlantic Ocean.
The flood story represents a collective memory of this catastrophic event.
The OAHSPE Bible mentions a flood, referred to as the deluge or flood of waters.
For behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth, even above the highest mountains; for I will destroy the corruption thereof, and purge it of all uncleanness."
They are of a higher civilization that could survive the great flood, okay we'll come to that, but so let's go with this idea that peoples from another civilization are advising or organizing peoples around the world, so we have Israel, we have the the peoples of Israel, we're told that they're brought out of Egypt by Moses.
Now the thing is that we have a very long gap—if we agree on the flood, which is a another question I want to ask you.
The biblical flood is of course the best known flood myth in the world everybody knows about the flood of Noah, whatever their religion is today everybody knows about the flood of Noah but not everybody is aware that there are maybe 1000 other stories that tell of a global flood and the cataclysm that afflicted the Earth and that caused great destruction and changed things completely and I've long been of the view that the most likely period for that cataclysm is the end of the Ice Age.
Often when I'm criticized about that I point out that there are ideas that do last for thousands of years, and that do continue, and that are repeated even the idea of the flood is an idea that has lasted for thousands of years but what's your feeling about the dating of this?
Do you do you accept the notion of a flood more than 11,000 years ago?
Mount Ararat was never submerged 11,000 years ago or 100,000 years ago it was not submerged, but the idea that survivors of a flood would seek refuge in high places—that makes sense to me, yes because also Nicolaus of Damascus wrote in his books that when Noah arrived on top of this mountain, he found there other people, ah interesting he found other people and these people were afraid to descend, and Noah with his sons convinced them to descend.
This timeline places his death in the same year as the Great Flood, when his grandson Noah was 600 years old.
In the Book of Enoch (also known as 1 Enoch), Enoch entrusts his revelations and visions—covering the Flood, world history, and the Last Judgment—to Methuselah for preservation.
Jewish traditions, such as in the midrashic Sefer haYashar, portray Methuselah as a preacher of repentance alongside Noah during a 120-year period before the Flood, though their efforts fail.
He is said to have died just before the Flood at age 960 in some variants, spared from perishing with the unrighteous.
Interpretations of Methuselah's name often translate it as "when he dies, it shall be sent," alluding to the Flood occurring in the year of his death.
Rebuked by his master, the dog said a flood was coming, and he must build and provision a boat.
Authors of forthcoming geological report suggest that this may be related to the Sumerian/biblical flood, though this claim is disputed by ancient Near East scholars who believe that the location is too remote from Mesopotamia.
3700 BC: Mesopotamia; Burrows' flood,
Jesuit paleographer Burrows, who accompanied Leonard Woolley on his 1930s archeological dig at Ur (and who later figures a the murderer in Agatha Christie's "Murder in Mesopotamia"), dates Mesopotamian/biblical flood at 3700 BC (January 1930 Dublin Review)
3500 BC: Mesopotamia; Leonard Woolley's flood
3500 Leonard Woolley, head of the joint British American team excavating Ur, dates the flood layer found at the base of the ruins of Ur at 3500 BC.
Under such unstable conditions, a large storm in the Zagros mountains could trigger a diversion of the Karun in an upstream direction, resulting in a flood filling of the lower Tigris-Euphrates alluvial plain, similar to the filling of the Salton Sea in the early part of this century.
3150 BC: Global; Paleoclimatic flood, global
Climatic conditions at time of Mesopotamian flood, from several scientific sources of paleoclimatic data.
3150 BC: USA, SW; SW US flood peak
3000 SW US flood peak.
3150 BC: Mesopotamia; The Flood
The Flood 3150 BC(?).
Last Mayan date of recreation of the world following The Flood , Aug 12, 3113 BC.
Earliest recorded flood recorded on a "Nilometer" in 3090 BC during the riegn of King Djer of the Early Dynastid period.
A human skull found in a California creek may tell us the story of the biblical flood
3000 Sumerians in Mesopotamia By late fourthmillenium a network of Sumerian towns has developed in lower Mesopotamia of which perhaps the best known is Uruk, some xx northwest of Ur, though even the detailed excavations by German archeologists of the temple of Anu and the nearby Eanna complex in the xxx did not extend any deeper than 3500 B,c or roughly to the level of the flood.
2900 BC: Mesopotamia; Mesopotamian flood
2900 Sir Max Mallowan, successor to Leonard Woolley, estimates date of Mesopotamian flood at 2900 BC using Sumerian King list.
However many will dismiss the idea of there ever having been a single flood and assign dates hundreds of years apart for various "flood layers" in different tells..
First recorded Huang Ho River flood in 4275 BP Ward, 1978, "Floods, a geographical perspective."
2800 BC: Mesopotamia; The Flood and Noah's Ark
2800 Andre Parrot in his 1954 book "The Flood and Noah"s Ark" indicates significant flood deposits at Kish, Shuurupak, Uruk, and Lagash centering on about 2800 B.C.
BC: Mesopotamia; Woolley and the Biblical Flood
BC: ; Woolley and the Biblical Flood
BC: ; Flood, Creationism, and Historiography
Aymaran myth (South America, Bolivia/Peru): Humans, made from clay by the creator god Pachacamac, emerge as various tribes from different openings in the Earth after a flood destroys a previous race.
But he has no special knowledge of 'the days before the flood'; and when he approaches more historical times, in preparing the way for his own theory of mixed government, he argues partially and erroneously.
In Genesis 9:1, after the flood, God tells Noah and his sons: "Multiply and replenish the earth." "Replenish" implies doing it again, suggesting a prior civilization destroyed by the flood.
For example, these changes could resolve inconsistencies, like Methuselah's survival past the flood in some versions.
Genesis 5 parallels the Sumerian King List—a Mesopotamian text with pre-flood rulers having exaggerated reigns in base-60 multiples—suggesting adaptation of earlier traditions.
In this article we will show the relationship between the patriarchs and kings before the flood, the all seem to root from a older Sumerian text.
Genesis 5 records ten patriarchs before the Flood: Adam, Seth, Enosh, Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared, Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, and Noah.
Their names include Alôrus, Alaparos, Amêlôn, Ammenôn, Megalâros, Daônos, Euedôrachos, Amempsinos, Ôtiartes, and Xisûthros (the flood hero).
Noah with Xisûthros or Ziusudra (flood survivor).
Each tradition places these rulers before a catastrophic flood.
The final figure (Noah, Xisûthros, Ziusudra, Manu Vaivasvata) survives the flood.
Noah ≈ Xisûthros/Ziusudra (flood survivor)
The consistent appearance of ten rulers, symbolic lifespans, and pre-flood frameworks across Genesis, Mesopotamian, Indian, and Egyptian traditions points to a shared cultural memory.
These parallels suggest that Genesis adapted older Mesopotamian lists, reshaping kings into patriarchs while retaining the underlying structure of ancient pre-flood traditions.
Noah with Xisûthros or Ziusudra (flood survivor).
Tripled as 777, it emphasizes fulfillment, marking the end of the pre-flood era.
The 365 (Enoch) symbolizes a solar cycle, undilated on Earth; 777 (Lamech) marks completion, pre-flood era end.
The Sumerian King List – which records around 300,000 years of kingship, including a great flood said to have occurred around 30,690 BCE.
In the chapter 'Tablet I: The History of Thoth the Atlantean', Thoth describes Atlantis's decline into darkness, prompting divine intervention that triggers a global flood.
(Which he equates with the Biblical Flood), and its utter and most infamous destruction – that alluded to by Plato – near the end of the last Ice Age, in the centuries after 10,500B.C.
The big flood (less than 50 years)
These islands were destroyed in a cataclysmic flood or upheaval, after which survivors migrated to the Nile Valley.
3rd (final) destruction (~10,000 BC): Final sinking of the remaining islands (Poseidia etc.); massive inundations/flooding; often linked by Cayce to the time of the Biblical Flood/Noah.
In relation to the history of Atlantis as presented, at what period did the flood as recorded in the Bible in which Noah took part, occur?
The Cain line, however, survived and carried forward until the great Flood.
Genesis 5 details the lineage from Adam through Seth to Noah, recording each patriarch's age at the birth of his firstborn son and total lifespan, which highlights the continuity of the human line before the flood.
In Genesis 6:4 there is another clue of the type of humans that lived before and and after the flood; the Nephilim (often translated as giants):
Grand Canyon (Flood history)
A greater chunk of the comet eventually struck the Atlantic Ocean, causing massive tsunamis and the final obliteration of Atlantean culture on the eastern seaboards of the Americas, Europe, and Africa. This event is the basis of the legendary flood of Noah.
After the flood, Utnapishtim becomes immortal, existing in a remote realm unreachable by mortals—echoes of Noah’s post-flood disappearance.
The flood = destruction of a frequency band; ark = carrier of memory, form, and law.
Withdraws after flood, suggesting he crossed the veil and remained between worlds.