Last year I saved them in the flood, as well as you and your mother; but they got wet, and therefore began to perish.
This event, which occasioned a great dispersion of the Frisian race, became the commencement of a chronological reckoning corresponding with 2193 before Christ, and is known by geologists as the Cimbrian flood.
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.
But the slave that Huitza had cast amid the viands, lay there with his back broken on a great wine-bowl that was smashed beneath him, from which the red flood ran in rivers in all directions.
Yet larger and more wondrous than mastodons had I seen in the long, dark ages before man came on earth, terrible forms of land and flood that caused wonder among Us.
She answered not, but hiding her face in my bosom, burst into a flood of tears and sobbed violently.
These sank back and appeared to be stifled in the whirlpool, where there were dreadful despairing fiends that devoured their own flesh, and awful shapes not of Earth gnashing their serrated teeth in bloody foam and burning with fire, wriggling and writhing, disappearing under the boiling flood.
And notwithstanding that she was a hard woman, she loved her son with a mighty love and was in great distress that he should so depart from her, entreating the gods concerning it upon her knees with floods of tears.
[^46]: This statement perhaps elucidates a vexed question as to the cause of the Flood, and would explain it even without the cooperation of other forces if Lalande's calculation may be taken as correct — that the approach of a Comet of the same size as the Earth within 13,290 miles would raise the ocean 2000 fathoms and thereby produce a deluge.
It is probable that some great disturbance took place by which the balance of the earth was upset, for as we hear of the Rainbow being manifested for the first time at the period of the Flood, we may imagine that the Sun was brought into a position to cause the rays to refract upon falling drops of water, visible at an angle hitherto unattained, and cause the wonderful coloured circles, which phenomenon disappears when the luminary is more than 40° above the horizon.
"That thou shalt never say!" she cried in torment, both hands clasping her breast while she gazed through floods of tears at the crouching chieftain.
Torn and gashed by thorns, briars and rocks and many fallen branches, he marvelled that he had so escaped, as he sank down in a patch of fern high above the boiling flood and gasped in a great self-pity.
But they found all egress barred by a broad river of water, stretching as far as they could see in eddying, swirling currents, bearing upon its flood trees, debris, and corpses.
Scores of warriors, attracting the lightnings to their metal-clad bosoms, were blasted and calcined; and piteous shrieks were carried by the wind like voices of demons in the air, as with falling ruin many half-broken structures fell, arches, columns and great Stone idols toppling into the splashing flood.
of Tek-Ra and northern Axatlan, as, swelled by a thousand overflowing streams and the refuse of a hundred cities, the great flood lapped around their walls.
Tek-Ra had sunk beneath the waters, but the high walls of Aten and Lote still resisted the sweeping violence of the flood that had buried the low-lying villages and towns of Axatlan, nearly all being along the Hilen.
It struck the high towers of Lote, tearing them away, and bearing on its rushing flood the crumbling ruins and the bodies of struggling thousands, soon silenced in its vast suffocation.
Up to the distant mountains, where dwelt in sojourning the tribe of Noah, spread the waters, the pouring torrents of rain which the people could perceive upon the horizon increasing their volume, and long tidal waves carrying their flood up to the heights from which it never receded to its former level.
Ham, with pressing words, would have entered the vessel and closed the ports, as before his eyes ever appeared the figure of one who was buried beneath the flood because of him, and superstitious fears caused him to see her in every horrid wave ; but the sire with quiet words of authority forbade unseemly haste.
On a level keel she sped, and her inmates knew she was sailing upon the Flood, while the muffled thunders and the heavy tapping of the rain on her sloping deck were now the only sounds audible.
The historian Abou'lgazi Bahdur-Khan calls him the eldest son but he may have been the first one bom after the Flood.
One object rose above the fearful flood.
Sometimes a tremulous heaving passed over the waters, a shimmering movement imparted by submarine disturbances; the monotone of the thunder was like the voice of an organ that moaned incessantly, while as sad tears the luminous drops of rain fell upon the waters of the Flood.
The tall hill sank deep as the vast crater opened and the waters poured in ; and then earth, air, sky and flood were rent by an explosion that lifted a mass of liquefied stratas with a frightful upheaval.
Buckland, in full support of my theory of there being such a land of Atlantis at such a period submerged by a cataclysm of the Glacial epoch following, " the missing links between men and apes, if existent, probably lie deep down in oceanic mud, and therefore their discovery is more than improbable ; for if we would trace man back to his origin, we must imagine a world geographically quite unlike that we inhabit." Then, when the Adamites increased and multiplied and the beauty of their daughters tempted the sons of God to stray, so that all became confusion, the cold winds ushered in that tremendous change which passed over the world, and the land of the ancient legends was erased by the waters of the Flood.
And that the Flood was a very real and very terrible event is supported by Lenormant in his "Les Origines de THistoires", the translation of which I give: "The long review, which we have just read, warrants our affirmation that the story of the Deluge is a universal tradition in every branch of humanity, with the exception, however, of the black race.
These being pre-Adamites would show that the Flood was no more universal than it had need to be, and was probably only for the purpose of blotting out a race whose dreadful powers overran proper limits.
Schrader takes all the old cosmogonical legends as myths, and thinks the Hebrews learnt of the Flood in Ur of the Chaldees.
We hear nothing of the Cainites after the Flood, from which point the history runs nearly exclusively to and from Abraham.
Up to the Flood the Cainites took the lead in development of arts.