In fact, you may see the upheaval in the depiction that you have in the Bible of the Great Flood.
In fact, you may see the upheaval in the depiction that you have in the Bible of the Great Flood.
God (Jehovih) called Abram from He-sa, led him to the ancient land of Ham (a pre-flood region associated with the descendants of Ham, later devastated by “druks”, a term in Oahspe for certain beings or peoples), and renamed him Abraham (Abra-Ham).
God led Abram away from He-sa, his native place, where he was a maker of baskets, and took him to the ancient land of Ham, which had been destroyed by druks, before the flood, as the name signify; whereafter God surnamed him Abraham, and made him chief rab’bah over the Faithists of Arabin’ya.
In many versions, she steals the key (sometimes with a lover's encouragement or devilish influence) to open the dikes—either for a party or by mistake—causing the sea to flood and destroy Ys.
The Flood: Only Gradlon escapes on horseback, often aided by a saint (St.
After the flood, Gradlon flees to Quimper, which becomes his new capital.
The flood (or deluge) myth in Guarani mythology, particularly in traditions preserved among groups like the Mbyá-Guaraní and other Tupi-Guarani peoples, is part of a larger cyclical cosmology.
As punishment, the gods (led by Ñamandú) unleashed the great deluge (called Mba'e-megua guasu or similar terms meaning "great monstrous thing" or massive flood/inundation).
The flood completely submerged and destroyed the First Earth.
Survivors of the flood (or newly created/recreated humans) inhabit this flawed world.
Grand Canyon (Flood history)
All lakes were large bodies of fresh water and the ‘Great Salt Lake’ was an inland sea of fresh floods, bearing icebergs from the glaciers on its northern shores.
These figures appear in Genesis 5 and contribute to a calculated timeline from creation to the flood of about 1,656 years, based on the ages at which each patriarch fathered the next in the line (e.g., Adam at 130, Seth at 105, and so on, up to Noah's 600th year at the flood).
Post-flood lifespans (e.g., in Genesis 11) are already shorter without adjustment, breaking chronological consistency if only pre-flood ages are lunar.
Undermines the narrative intent: The Bible emphasizes extraordinary pre-flood longevity to contrast with post-flood decline, symbolizing a shift in human condition due to sin or divine decree.
The biblical text presents the patriarchs as distinct individuals with personal stories (e.g., Adam's creation, Noah's flood role), not abstract dynasties.
The flood narrative ties to Noah's specific 600th year, suggesting literal chronology rather than symbolic spans.
This theory posits that Genesis 5 draws from older Mesopotamian texts, like the Sumerian King List, where pre-flood rulers reigned for tens of thousands of years.
Adjusting for Noah's 600 at the flood, the total from Adam to the flood becomes about 245,175 years—within 2% of the Sumerian King List's 249,200 years pre-flood.
Genesis parallels the Sumerian list with 10 pre-flood figures, ending in a flood.
Post-flood biblical ages (e.g., 10 patriarchs in Genesis 11) shorten naturally, but Sumerian lists have long post-flood reigns (e.g., 25,000+ years), suggesting selective adaptation.
This theory treats the ten patriarchs from Adam to Noah as a sequence of ten successive kings or rulers in a pre-flood civilization, Atlantis.
The total span from the first patriarch to the flood is therefore approximately 10,000 years.
Upon its destruction, these vast saline waters entered into the Earth’s atmosphere causing the first of two massive prehistoric deluges and tribulations that mankind would experience." (Tsarion describes the flood from Tiamat's oceans as the cause of Earth's first major deluge around 50,000 years ago.)
Do you not know that such a heaven is for you?7. The man replied, Of heaven we have heard; but then it is so far away, and we must live so many lives before we can reach that place!8. And Jesus said, My brother, man, your thoughts are wrong; your heaven is not far away; and it is not a place of metes and bounds, is not a country to be reached; it is a state of mind.9. God never made a heaven for man; he never made a hell; we are creators and we make our own.10. Now, cease to seek for heaven in the sky; just open up the windows of the hearts, and, like a flood of light, a heaven will come and bring a boundless joy; then toil will be no cruel task.11. The people were amazed, and gathered close to hear this strange young master speak,12. Imploring him to tell them more about the Father-God; about the heaven that men can make on earth; about the boundless joy.13. And Jesus spoke a parable; he said, A certain man possessed a field; the soil was hard and poor.14. By constant toil he scarcely could provide enough of food to keep his family from want.15. One day a miner who could see beneath the soil, in passing on his way, saw this poor man and his unfruitful field.16. He called the weary toiler and he said, My brother, know you not that just below the surface of your barren field rich treasures lie concealed?17. You plough and sow and reap in scanty way, and day by day you tread upon a mine of gold and precious stones.18. This wealth lies not upon the surface of the ground; but if you will dig away the rocky soil, and delve down deep into the earth, you need no longer till the soil for naught.19. The man believed.
No other land has been the homeland of such mighty men of thought as grace your scrolls of fame.13. A host of sturdy giants of philosophy, of poetry, of science, and of art, were born upon the soil of Greece, and rocked to manhood in your cradle of pure thought.14. I come not here to speak of science, of philosophy, or art; of these you are the world's best masters now.15. But all your high accomplishments are but stepping stones to worlds beyond the realm of sense; are but illusive shadows flitting on the walls of time.16. But I would tell you of a life beyond, within; a real life that cannot pass away.17. In science and philosophy there is no power strong enough to fit a soul to recognise itself, or to commune with God.18. I would not stay the flow of your great streams of thought; but I would turn them to the channels of the soul.19. Unaided by the Spirit-breath, the work of intellection tends to solve the problems of the things we see, and nothing more.20. The senses were ordained to bring into the mind mere pictures of the things that pass away; they do not deal with real things; they do not comprehend eternal law.21. But man has something in his soul, a something that will tear the veil apart that he may see the world of real things.22. We call this something, spirit consciousness; it sleeps in every soul, and cannot be awakened till the Holy Breath becomes a welcome guest.23. This Holy Breath knocks at the door of every soul, but cannot enter in until the will of man throws wide the door.24. There is no power in intellect to turn the key; philosophy and science both have toiled to get a glimpse behind the veil; but they have failed.25. The secret spring that throws ajar the door of soul is touched by nothing else than purity in life, by prayer and holy thought.26. Return, O mystic stream of Grecian thought, and mingle your clear waters with the flood of Spirit-life; and then the spirit consciousness will sleep no more, and man will know, and God will bless.27. When Jesus had thus said he stepped aside.
a catch of crabs, and lobsters, sharks and creeping things, with now and then a fish of better kind.13. Behold the thousands come to hear the Wild Man of the hills; they come in crowds that he may wash them in the crystal flood, and with their lips they do confess their sins.14. But when the morrow comes we find them in their haunts of vice again, reviling John, and cursing God, and heaping insults on the king.15. But blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see the king.16. And blessed are the strong in heart, for they shall not be cast about by every wind that blows;17. But while the fickle and the thoughtless have gone back to Egypt land for leeks and carnal herbs to satisfy their appetites, the pure in heart have found the king.18. But even those whose faith is weak, and who are naught but carnal manifests, will some day come again, and enter in with joy to see the king.19. O men of Israel, take heed to what this prophet has to say!
Depart from me, you workers of iniquity.29. The man who hears the words of life and does them not is like the man who builds his house upon the sand, which when the floods come on, is washed away and all is lost.30. But he who hears the words of life and in an honest, sincere heart receives and treasures them and lives the holy life,31. Is like the man who builds the house upon the rock; the floods may come, the winds may blow, the storms may beat upon his house; it is not moved.32. Go forth and build your life upon the solid rock of truth, and all the powers of the evil one will shake it not.33. And Jesus finished all his sayings on the mount and then he, with the twelve, returned unto Capernaum.
Be not deceived; go not into their ways.10. For when the son of man will come again no man need point the way; for as the lightning lights the heavens, so will the son of man light up the heavens and earth.11. But, lo, I say, that many generations will have come and gone before the son of man shall come in power; but when he comes no one will say, Lo, here is Christ; lo, there.12. But as it was before the flood in Noah's day, so shall it be.
The people ate, they drank,were filled with merriment and sang for joy,13. And did not know their doom until the ark was done and Noah entered in; but then the flood came on and swept them all away.14. So, also, in the days of Lot; the people ate and drank; they bought, they sold, they planted and they reaped, they went their ways in sin, and they cared not;15. But when the righteous Lot went from their city's gates the earth beneath the city shook, and brimstone fires fell from heaven;16. The gapping jaws of earth flew wide, and swallowed up their homes, their wealth, and they went down to rise no more.17. So shall it be when comes the son of man in power.18. I charge you men, as I will charge men then, Seek not to save your wealth, or you will lose your lives.
A Roman soldier dipped a sponge in vinegar and myrrh, and placed it to his lips.7. Now, at the ninth hour of the day the earth began to quake, and in the darkness of that sunless day, a flood of golden light appeared above the cross;8. And from the light a voice was heard which said, Lo, it is done.9. And Jesus said, My Father-God, into thy hands I give my soul.10. A Roman soldier in compassion said, This agony is all too great; relief shall come.
Post-Flood, Noah divided the continents: Asia to Shem, Africa to Ham, and Europe to Japheth.
Before the flood, the world is described as following a simpler cosmic order.
Tablet XI of Gilgamesh (the flood story) uses round 360-day calculations when counting time during the flood and its aftermath, reflecting the old schematic calendar.
Some late scholarly commentaries and omens describe the 13th month as something the gods “added later” to the original perfect 12-month year after the flood or after a cosmic disturbance.
an explicit pre-flood ice-age destruction caused by shaking the earth’s poles,
the exact sequence fire → ice → flood,
All other canonical and most extra-biblical Jewish sources suppressed or removed the fire and ice stages, leaving only the flood.
This follows an initial plague (or fire/drought in some reconstructions) and precedes the flood.
Escalation to flood: Enlil convenes the assembly (II viii 12–14): "Their clamour has become too irksome...
Flood execution: Tablet III details the seven-day deluge, Atrahasis's survival, and post-flood reforms (e.g., infant mortality to control numbers).
15–16) describes the Second World (Tokpa) ending in polar instability and global freezing, following fire (First World) and preceding flood (Third World).
When we look beyond the canonical Hebrew Bible and include older Mesopotamian sources plus non-canonical Jewish texts that were still circulating when the Torah was being edited, we do find clear traces of world-destructions by fire and by cold/ice — exactly the two elements that the Hopi place before the final flood.
Only the flood remained in the canonical text.
The older Mesopotamian tablets and the non-canonical Jewish writings, however, still preserve exactly the two elements that the Hopi place before the flood.
Biblical final redactor: same motif → leads Israel after Egypt, long after the Flood The Hopi sequence therefore preserves the original logic of the motif:divine guidance → escape → world destroyed by fire → later flood.The Hebrew Priestly writer simply re-deployed the same ancient template centuries later for a different national story.
In the aftermath of this war, both the victorious ancient Athenians and the island of Atlantis itself were destroyed in a single day and night of catastrophic earthquakes and floods.
[…] At a later time there occurred portentous earthquakes and floods, and one grievous day and night befell them, when the whole body of your warriors was swallowed up by the earth, and the island of Atlantis in like manner was swallowed up by the sea and vanished.” — Plato, Critias
"But afterwards there occurred violent earthquakes and floods; and in a single day and night of misfortune all your warlike men in a body sank into the earth, and the island of Atlantis in like manner disappeared in the depths of the sea."
Atlantean-Lumerian War: The Atlantean-Lemurian War occurred around 11,000 BC and caused a global flood.
This led to conflict, destruction, and widespread flood myths in cultures worldwide.
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.
"But afterwards there occurred violent earthquakes and floods; and in a single day and night of misfortune all your warlike men in a body sank into the earth, and the island of Atlantis in like manner disappeared in the depths of the sea.
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.
Mirrors Zeus’s destruction of Atlantis via floods and earthquakes (Critias 121a).
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.
Plato’s reference to the Phaeton myth suggests a cometary impact triggering floods and fires, contributing to Atlantis’s destruction.
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?
Now the interesting thing is there's no question whatsoever from a factual point of view that whatever floods took place at that time at the end of the Ice Age, none of them reached the slopes of Mount Ararat.
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.
2970 BC: Europe; Floods in Netherlands
Floods in the Southern Netherlands a series of inundations occur 4,350 to 4,075 years BP corresponding an alteration of wet and dry periods (Beyens 1982)
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
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