Noah

Brown, Poseidon: a Link between Semite, Hamite, and Aryan (Longmans, 1872), who traces the worship from Chaldaea through Phoenicia, Philistia, Libya, and Greece, and identifies Poseidon with Noah in Libyan mythology.

Brown's line, from Chaldaea to Greece, ends in Noah.

He has collated Noah, in Tradition and elsewhere, with Chronos, Poseidon, Saturn, and Hoa.

Donnelly, he says, uses that tradition to send the legendary heroes out as survivors of Atlantis and civilisers of the countries they reach, rather than as memories of Noah.

A further festival, kept almost throughout Greece except by the Eretrians, honoured Ceres as the first who taught the use of laws, which he reads as law commencing again with Noah.

He thinks the closing immorality of the Mandan ceremony recalls the Bacchanalia, and that the "big canoe" in the centre of the village, shaped like a hogshead, shows a confusion of wine-butt and canoe, if Bacchus carries a later tradition of Noah, or possibly of Cham and the scene in Genesis.

If flesh-meat was first permitted to Noah, he expects an indirect memory, and he finds it in festivals of Bacchus as eater of raw flesh.

The Mandan opening, a great white man from the west at sunrise, addressed as Nuh-mohk-muck-a-nah, the first or only man, who landed on a high mountain in the west in his canoe and still resides there, he sets beside Athenaeus on the Peloria.

He wants the older theory recognised: Bacchus or Dionysus as a memory of Noah, or Cham, or Nimrod, any of whom might be a nucleus.

Because antediluvian tradition meets in Noah and passes through him, Adam is reduplicated in Noah, and "first-born" applies.

He thinks the cumulative evidence points to Noah, or to some progenitor immediately in contact with him, if Noah is assumed.

Those who believe Genesis can still say Noah or Cham was deified in connection with the sun after the deluge, and that the mythology then absorbed that event.

There is a tradition that Noah entered the ark when the sun was in the sign of the Bull in the Zodiac.

Three or seven brothers and sisters answer to the three sons of Noah, or to the seven persons saved if counted apart from the patriarch.

He then says he cannot at that moment recall where he first met the tradition that Noah entered the ark in the sign of the Bull.

11) tells us that Noah entered the ark on the 17th of the second month.

It will be observed that while he locates Paradise in the East, he places the scene of the Deluge in the West, and he supposes that Noah came from the Scene of the Deluge to Europe." In Dr.

Epiphanius writes, ' The wood of the Ark of Noah is shown to this day in the KardKan [Koord] country'" [Adv.

Noah, as handed down in Libyan mythology, following in this the lines of tradition.* And looking to the diffusion of this worship ofPoseidon in Africa, including Egypt, Carthage, Ethiopia, Mauri-tania, and throughout the Phoenician colonisation, we seem to understand Plato's statement that Atlantis once "had an extent greater than Libya and Asia." "For many centuries," says Lenormant, " the Pelasgi of the Archipelago, Greece, and Italy, the Philistines of Crete, the Sicilians, the Sardinians, the Libyans, the Maxyans of Africa, in spite of the distance of sea separating them, united in a close confederation, maintaining a constant intercourse, and thus explaining the Libyan element, hitherto inexplicable, in the most ancient religious traditions of Greece, the worship of the Athenian Tritonis and of the Libyan Poseidon." Atlantis takes its name from Atlas—" the king." We hear of Atlas first in Hesiod, as son of Japetus ; his brother was Mencetius ("Mnesius," Plato; "Menu," Lenormant), and, according to ApoUodorus, his mother's name was Asia.

: "I read the two names—the cuneiform writing cannot be transfeiTed to your columua—doubtfully as Sisi-ron add Naha (Noah) That the god in question represents the Greek Neptune is, at any rate, almost certain ; he was worshipped on the seashore, and ships of gold were dedicated to him.

probably 'god of the ship or ark.' Other titles I cannot explain ; but they seem to be all connected with traditions of the biblical Noah."

^ In Tradition and elsewhere I have endeavoured to collate, though very imperfectly, the various traditions of the patriarch Noah in Chronos, Poseidon, Saturn, Hoa, &c.

He skilfully seizes hold of the tradition to which I have just referred, in order to despatch the various legendary heroes, no longer as representatives of the patriarch Noah, but, so to speak, on their own account to the various nations as the survivors of the catastrophe, and as the civilisers and legislators of the countries to which they came.

" because she was the first w^o taught mankind the use of laws ;" which may mean that the festival went back to the time when law commenced or recommenced—to Noah and the Deluge.

Assuming the fact that Bacchus- represents the later traditions of the patriarch Noah, or possibly the tradition of Cham, embodying traditions of the episode recorded in the Bible, the substitution of wine-sacks for vrater-sacks in the following narratives would correspond to the confusion of tradition we have just seen in the combination of the wine-butt and the canoe.* * The late Colooel George Macdonell, C.B., related that certain Jesuit miBsionaries went in search of an Indian tribe whom Sir Jojjn

If Dionysus (or Bacchus) embodies a tradition of Noah, and if (Gen.

soon made their appearance in a body at the picket, and recognised the visitor as an old acquaintance whom they addressed as ' Nuh-mohk-miick-a-nah ' (the first or only man).

I think we might have expected some recognition of the theory originally held that Bacchus or Dionysos embodied traditions of the patriarch Noah or Cham or Nimrod (for either might have formed a " nucleus " round which the traditions or niyths might have collected); at any rate, we should have expected some advertence to the facts.

The three last epithets exactly apply to Noah.

As I have elsewhere remarked, since all antediluvian traditions meet in Noah, and are transmitted through him, there is an a priori probability that we shall find all the antediluvian traditions confused in the tradition of Noah, and accordingly the reduplication ofAdam in Noah has not escaped observation.

49), " the first or only man." The cumulative force of the evidence appears to me very strong, and assuming the existence of Noah, I think it must be admitted that the tradition points to the patriarch, or to some original progenitor immediately in contact with him.

If by the former, I reply that whenever mythology commenced, Noah or Cham .may

The number three corresponds with the sons of Noah, the number seven with the persons saved in the ark, if referred to separately from the Patriarch.

It may be asked whether, beyond the indirect, I have any direct testimony to this tradition, that Noah entered the ark when the sun was in the sign of Taurus or the Bull.

11) tells us that Noah entered the ark on the 17th of the second month.

When the planet Saturn (compare analogy between Saturn and Noah, Tradition, &c., p.

Noah's ark, he says, rested on mountains of Armenia that were already there.

Noah could not have named a mountain that was not there before the flood.

He throws out the Arabic story of the giant Og, enemy of Noah, and the tale that a beard Og tore out became a cedar forest from which Noah built the ark (Tomus II, p.

One account he records derives the name of alchemy from Cham, first king of the Egyptians, son of Noah.

Kircher also says the art was practiced by the first men before the flood, while Adam was still alive, and notably by Tubalcain, and that Noah and his sons received it from their fathers and spread it, after the flood, into all parts of the world (Tomus II, p.

When the sacred letters, in the cited place of Genesis, expressly say that the ark rested on the mountains of Armenia, above Ararat, the ark could not have rested above a thing which at first did not exist, nor could Noah afterwards have named a mountain which he had not known to exist before the flood.

Og the giant, survivor both before and after the flood, was engaged in a notable and irreconcilable enmity with Noah, and continually sought him for slaughter.

Noah could not resist so great a vastness, and hid himself in the caves of the mountains, which the huge mass of the giant's body could not enter.

Once, when the giant could not catch Noah as he fled, he threw after him a beard he had torn out.

It at once filled the whole plain like a cedar wood, as many hairs as cedars, and from those cedars, they say, by a ridiculous fiction, Noah built the ark.

They fable him of so immense a size that when he sought Noah's ark in the flood, the waters reached only to his knees.

Those who derive the name from the Egyptian word of Cham think that it was written down by Cham, the first king of the Egyptians, the son of Noah, kept in the ark, and carried into Egypt, and that posterity ever afterwards cultivated it as handed on by Mesraim, son of Cham, and by Hermes his counsellor.

The posterity of Adam, Noah and his sons, received it by ancestral tradition and, after the flood, spread it into all the parts of the world.

He is putting a metal art in the world before the flood, preserving it through Noah, and carrying it into Egypt by Cham.

The remnants on the Eastern Continent were dispersed by migrating peoples who pre-historically passed eastward (see our migra- tions) ; hence the great antiquity of viticulture over the Eastern Continent, which now figures in Portugal, Spain, France, Austria, Hungary, Germany, Italy, Southern Russia and Greece, Armenia, Eastern Pontus, and other parts of Asia, whose wine product was utilized in the lands of the Levant from the earliest memory of civilization, and was even more remotely used by the Egyptians in honor of their god Osiris ; by the Greeks, in honor of their god Dionysus ; by the Hebrews, to the Patriarch Noah, and was an accompaniment to the repast of corn and oil, as re-corded in the Old Testament, all of which have their remote con-io6

Prior to the occurrence of the Biblical flood, in which Noah was the chief figure, it had become very plentiful in Egypt, and was then known as the Cas'to-rix (see our account of the flood), and subsequent to that cataclysm, it was changed to Diifret, and so remained until the time of the mythical, or so-called Biblical writings, when it was changed to Barley-Cora.

Prior to the time of the great flood, or Biblical narrative, in which Noah figured, a great flood passed through the central portion of the now known United States of America, that had place through central British America and passed out into the southern waters of the globe, through the region now drained by the great rivers and their tributaries, of the central States.

In the main field of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, which is divided into four larger, alternating with five smaller fields, he depicted a number of subjects in the following order: (i) the dividing of the light from the darkness; (2) the creation of sun, moon, and stars, and of the herbage; (3) the creation of the water; (4) the creation of man; (5) the creation of woman; (6) the temptation and expulsion; (7) an enigmatical scene, said to represent the sacrifice of Cain and Abel, but rather resembling the sacrifice of Noah; (8) the deluge; (9) the drunkenness of Noah.

First Dome, "Creation of the World and the Fall of Man;" in the following arch, "The Deluge;" in the Second Dome, in the second arch, "Noah," and the "Tower of Babel ;" in the Third Dome, the "History of Abraham;" in the Fourth Dome, "Joseph's Dream," "Joseph Sold by his Brethren," and "Jacob's Lament;" in the Fifth and Sixth Domes, "Joseph in Egypt ;" and in the Seventh Dome, the "History of Moses." The interior reached, one is charmed and inspired with the beauty of the main lines of art ; the grandeur and nobility of the perspective; the magnificence of the decorative spirit manifested through the assemblage of embodiments and re-embodiments, embraced in the mosaics on the walls and other elevated positions.

Therezy and Kashela were the paternal and maternal ancestors of one son by the name of Mar-re'za, who subsequently begat a son by the name of Ge-lin'get, which latter was the pre-historic personage represented in th'e Biblic narrative as Noah, who figured in the great Deluge.

He took to himself a wife by the name of Mel-etish, and to them was born a son whose name was Ge-lin'get, the ultimate life conditions of whomi, furnished the theme for the Biblical myth, or narrative of Noah and the Flood.

As was the case with parts of the ethnographich myths, being founded on facts, so it was with that of Noah and the Flood.

Just previous to the time of the great flood in which the Biblical narration pictures Noah as the principal character, that portion of the country lying south, and southwest of Judea and Idutnea, was a great low marshy section, then known as Ge-ron'- de-ze (the term meaning uninhabited country).

Noah is one man who loaded a ship, and he sets beside him Belgamer to Sweden, Xisuthrus to Chaldea, Vaivasata to India, Peirum to China, and the Atlantic priest Deukalion to Greece (p.

Who was Noah, of what race, and how did one family produce such different races?

So the saga of Noah with the ark is explained without strain.

The biblical tale of the rescue of one family, Noah, is found in all the old sagas, also in the Greek, and so long before the Bible arose.

Ge-lin'get is the man the Biblical narrative represents as Noah.

Marreza's son is Ge-lin'get, the person the Biblical narrative represents as Noah.

Noah's Flood, one account, B.C.

The greatest recent heat at the poles was not less than 22,000 years ago, and the melting of the ice on that occasion may have caused Noah's Flood, which he says has no date inside the truly historical and monumental periods.

One account tells us that Noah's Flood took place, B.

The melting of the ice on that occasion may have been the cause of Noah's Flood.

109 (Atlantis 9,000 years before Plato, Noah 2,348 B.C., Deucalion 1,503 B.C., Xisuthrus at least 10,000 years before the Christian era, China 63,000, Japan 17,462 years back to 700 B.C.), p.

Noah, one account, 2,348 B.C.

Noah, 2,348 B.C.

Zisudra and Atrahasis, three thousand years before the biblical Noah.

The Noah flood myth from the bible was attributed to Zisudra and Atrahasis in Sumerian/Mesopotamian culture three thousand years earlier.

A quotation at the foot, which continues on the next page, says more than five hundred legends, one man and his family spared, the Western name Noah, the Aztec name Nene, and in the Near East the names that open file page 288: Atra-Hasis, Utnapishtim, or Ziusudra.

Noah is warned, and the people of the immovable race hide in a luminous cloud, which the text sets against Moses's ark.

In the Apocalypse of Adam the same Noah is the man later generations call Deucalion.

Foreknowledge informs Noah.

They hid in a place, Noah and many others of the immovable race, in a luminous cloud.

Noah, also called Deucalion.

God gives power to Noah's sons and their wives by means of the ark, with animals and birds.

The generations will call Noah Deucalion.

Noah will divide the whole earth among Ham, Japheth, and Shem.

The greatness of the light of the foreknowledge informed Noah, and Noah proclaimed it to all the offspring who are the sons of men.

It is not as Moses said, "They hid themselves in an ark" (Gn 7:7), but they hid themselves in a place, not only Noah but also many other people from the immovable race.

Noah recognized his authority.

Then he addresses Noah.

God says he has protected Noah in the ark along with his wife and his sons and their wives and their animals and the birds of heaven.

He will give the earth to Noah and his sons.

No seed will come from Noah of the men who will not stand in God's presence in another glory.

Those men, cast forth from the knowledge of the great aeons and the angels, will stand before Noah and the aeons.

God asks Noah why he has departed from what he was told, and says Noah has created another generation so that he might scorn God's power.

Then Noah will divide the whole earth among his sons, Ham and Japheth and Shem.

The seed of Noah through his sons has done all Sakla's will, and holds the powers in the aeons.

It gives Noah two pictures.

In the Apocryphon of John the chief archon brings a flood, Noah is warned, and the immovable race hides in a luminous cloud.

In the Apocalypse of Adam the flesh is left in the waters, Noah is sheltered in an ark with his wife, sons, their wives, animals, and birds, and later generations call him Deucalion.

Noah's family: Ham, Japheth, and Shem on this site.

Tomas reads the biblical Noah as a later version of that account.

In Chapter 13 he treats Noah's ark as a spacecraft, and he collects reports of buried arks whose makers he ties to those same seeder races.

Noah's ark, in a conclusion he prints from Dr.

Noah's ark as a spacecraft.

On the next file page he writes that the Noah story in the Christian, Hebrew, and Islamic canons is very similar to, or derives from, the story of Utnapishtim in the Epic of Gilgamesh, and he asks whether the Elohim who commanded Noah were the Seeders or Guardians of his Chapter 5.

For the flood hero he names beside Noah, see the Epic of Gilgamesh, tablet I and Zénaïde A.

Brown says there was a great flood, an ark filled with animals, a Noah, and a subject Noah thought was God, and that the story then diverges from the ancient texts.

Noah, in Brown's epigraph, as the man whose ark was a submerged spacecraft.

Salla's Chapter 13 sets Noah beside Utnapishtim and then makes the ark a spacecraft.

Noah's family: the biblical names.

His Noah is the figure in Brown's epigraph, and his Hebrews are Hoova's.

Noah's Family: the biblical landing.

What she claims: The plain of Shinar was already occupied when the descendants of Noah arrived.

She says they belonged to none of the races classed in the Bible as descended from Noah, and probably to one far older, which had not been included in the Flood.

"They" are descendants of Noah, long after the Flood.

One thing appears clear: they belonged to none of the races classed in the Bible as descended from Noah, but probably to one far older, which had not been included in the Flood.

The next sentence is the one I would set beside any writer who treats Noah's flood as the drowning of the whole earth.

Seth's line ends in Noah.

129 (a people older than Noah's descent, and a flood that may not have been universal), p.

She does not print a year for Noah.

Flood not necessarily universal, and a people in Shinar older than Noah's descent (p.

In Genesis, Noah is told to bring clean animals in sevens and the others in pairs.

The novel does not name that ship, and it does not put Noah on it.

The Noah gesture is there.

Hebrews 11 is also the chapter that names Noah, warned of things not yet seen, building an ark.

Noah in Genesis.

Nuh in the Quran.

My page We sent Nuh to his people lists the surahs.

A second page asks whether Noah knew about the flood long before it came, which is close to the strangers who had "known of the coming destruction for many years".

"Indeed, We sent Nuh to his people, [saying], 'Warn your people before there comes to them a painful punishment.'"

The Quran account is closer, because Nuh also speaks to his people.

The Noah gesture is there, and the leaf is not.

On this site: Flood Stories from Around the World, The Chaldean Account of the Deluge, Who Was Vaivasvata Manu?, Prophet Nuh in the Quran, Noe (I'hin Prophet), Book of Aph, Son of Jehovih, The Fall of Atlantis, The Oera Linda Book Reviewed and Atlantean Wars.