Noah (Biblical Tradition): Noah, as a flood survivor, could parallel Aph’s role in guiding the I’hins, but Noah is a mortal prophet, not a divine figure like Aph, and his flood is later (~4,000 BCE).
Hebrews 11 lists Old Testament examples of faith (Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Moses, etc.) and ends with unnamed faithful who suffered extreme persecution and death.
But, nor does it sound like the God that I know of, to slay all the men upon the face of the earth, as He did when He spoke to Noah and told him to build the great ark.
This site is significant as it is mentioned in the Sumerian King List as the home of Ziusudra, the Sumerian equivalent of Noah, linking it directly to flood mythology.
The Book of Jasher (Pseudo-Jasher) significantly expands the Genesis account with additional narrative about the corruption of mankind, Noah’s efforts, and divine warnings.
Noah Preaches for 120 Years:Jasher 5:7–11 states Noah preached for 120 years to warn people to repent.
Mockery and Rejection:Noah is ridiculed repeatedly.
In Jasher 6:4–6, the people say Noah is mad, building a vessel on dry land with no water around.
Warning of God’s Judgment:Noah directly tells the people: if they do not repent, “God will bring a flood of waters upon you, and destroy you all from under heaven” (Jasher 6:5).
Divine Instruction:God tells Noah explicitly to build the Ark in Jasher 5:20–24.
Instructions for the Ark:Jasher 5:27 reiterates that Noah is to build the Ark precisely as instructed, including exact dimensions.
Family Support:Noah’s sons and their wives support him in the building process.
Final Seven Days:In Jasher 6:11–14, God commands Noah and his family to enter the Ark seven days before the rain begins.
Noah again warns the people, but they ignore him.
In Hebrew Scriptures, Noah's flood is depicted as divine response to human moral disorder (raʿ).
The Deluge: Divine Restraint ReimposedThe flood in Genesis cleanses moral chaos to restore order, preserving the righteous like Noah for alignment with the divine.
Another source expanding on the Ark of Noah is The book of Jasher
Parallels between Yima’s Vara from Zoroastrian mythology and flood narratives like Nu (Noah) in the Quran and Berossus’s Mesopotamian flood story is insightful.
Source: Surahs like Hud (11:25-49) and Noah (71:1-28) recount Nu as a prophet warning his people of a flood sent by Allah due to their disbelief.
The story of Nūḥ (Noah) and the Flood suggests he had knowledge of an impending catastrophe that others ignored or dismissed.
In the Qur'anic account of Nūḥ (Noah), it is clear that he had foreknowledge of the coming flood and spent a long period warning his people before the disaster occurred.
Surah Al-Ankabut (29:14) states:“And We certainly sent Noah to his people, and he remained among them for a thousand years less fifty years, and the flood seized them while they were wrongdoers.”
Surah Hud (11:25-26)“And We had certainly sent Noah to his people, [saying], ‘Indeed, I am to you a clear warner, that you not worship except Allah.
Surah Al-Qamar (54:9-11) describes how the people mocked him before the flood:“Before them, the people of Noah denied, and they denied Our servant and said, ‘A madman,’ and he was repelled.
See Was Nuh one of the last inheritors of advanced knowledge before the flood, and for celestial warning around Noah/Nuh see Was Noah (Nuh) aware of the flood long before it happened.
These supporting pages share Kimah, Pleiades, Flood/Noah, or Orion/Kesil entities (content URLs, not tag archives):
Was Nuh one of the last inheritors of advanced knowledge before the flood: already cites Talmud two stars from Kimah.
Was Noah (Nuh) aware of the flood long before it happened: celestial-warning / Kimah-Pleiades flood reading.
After this tumble, we join Noah, Adam and Eve, Atlantis, Mu, and Olympus—and Jesus joins Osiris, Ta’aroa, Zeus, and Vishnu.
Noah?
Years of data correlation in studying the earth tumbling concept have shown the last tumble to have occurred about 6,500 years ago; that Noah, or Utnapishtim, or whatever his name was, did exist and did survive that particular cataclysm.
If it were so, then it would be the tumble preceding Noah’s (another fascinating story), about 11,500 years ago.
This was the time which the Talmud states was the setting of the Pleiades below the horizon, when the Holy Land was moved into a "region of terrible cold" for many generations—actually for 5,000 years until Noah’s flood, 6,500 years ago.
The great continent in the Pacific disappeared almost completely—what is now Easter Island, then on the edge of the continent, dropped to remain on the Pacific Ocean floor for 5,000 years—to be heaved up again in the cataclysm causing Noah’s flood.
After the flood, Noah’s family becomes the progenitor of all post-flood humanity.
The division of humanity into lineages through Noah’s sons (Shem, Ham, Japheth) sets a precedent for the focus on distinct nations.
Lot’s survival after Sodom’s destruction parallels Noah’s role, with his daughters ensuring the continuation of his lineages (Moabites and Ammonites).
This genealogical account maps the descendants of Noah’s sons and their spread across the earth, symbolizing the diversity of humanity.
The Flood story, for instance, includes detailed descriptions of divine planning, Noah’s actions, and the aftermath, while the Sodom destruction lacks similar elaboration.
For example, he warned Ziusudra (or Utnapishtim, the Sumerian Noah) about the impending flood and guided him to build a boat to save life.
After the flood, humanity is given a new covenant (e.g., Noah’s covenant in Genesis 9) and is charged with stewardship over the Earth.
The Age of Humans begins to emphasize moral and spiritual laws, as seen in Noah’s covenant, the Ten Commandments, and the rise of organized religion.
According to traditional interpretations, the time from Adam to Noah spans around 1,656 years, and from Noah to Abraham another 292 years.
The Bible describes the Tower of Babel as a monumental structure meant to reach the heavens, built under the leadership of Nimrod, son of Cush and grandson of Noah.
The account of Nimrod, the "mighty hunter" and grandson of Noah, emerges as central to the speaker's hypothesis.
Genealogy of Noah (Genesis 10): The nations are traced from Noah’s sons—Shem, Ham, and Japheth—without Yahweh playing a direct role.
The genealogy narrows from Noah’s son Shem to Terah, Abraham’s father.
To calculate the years between Noah and Abraham, we can use the genealogies provided in Genesis 11, which detail the descendants from Noah's son Shem to Abraham.
Flood stories, including those of Atrahasis, Utnapishtim, and Noah, share similar themes, with a human warned to build a vessel to survive.
The detailed dimensions of Noah's ark align closely with those in Mesopotamian texts.
After the Flood, Noah's descendants were commanded by God to:"Be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and fill it." (Genesis 9:1)
The Flood had already destroyed all pre-Flood civilizations, leaving Noah's family as the few survivors.
The Bible provides genealogies in Genesis 10–11, listing the descendants from Noah through several generations until the Tower of Babel.
Noah: If the flood occurred in 9,564 BCE, Noah's sons (Shem, Ham, and Japheth) were likely born by around 9,500 BCE.
Peleg was born approximately 4–5 generations after Noah.
Protector of Humanity:In the Epic of Atrahasis, Hea warns Atrahasis (a Noah-like figure) about the impending flood sent by the gods and instructs him to build an ark, saving humanity and animals.
Despite our superficial knowledge of the Sumerians, we have already been able to credit them with manyworld “firsts.” Samuel Noah Kramer, author of History Begins at Sumer and The Sumerians, noted thatthese people developed the wheel, schools, medical science, the first written proverbs, history, the firstbicameral congress, taxation, laws, social reforms, the first cosmogony and cosmology, and the firstmoney (a weighed silver shekel), as well as the first writing system, cuneiform
Such longevity is also recorded in the Bible, wherein Methuseleh, Noah, Seth, Enos, and others arereported to have lived more than nine hundred years.
The Bible often describes the very long human lives of those who came before Noah, such as Adam, Seth,Enosh, Kenan, Enoch, and Methuselah.
In order to make the Bible’s timeline make sense next tothe Sumerian and fossil timeline, Alford multiplied biblical ages by 100; he found that the time betweenthe birth of Adam’s son Seth and the great Flood of Noah was 165,000 years.
The Bible called him Noah.
Nearly all cultures have their own version of a Noah who survived the Great Flood.
Utnapishtim has been called the Sumerian Noah, and the parallels between the biblical account of Noahand the Gilgamesh account of the Great Flood are both striking and obvious.
Utnapishtim/Noah how to construct an ark, using readily available bitumen to make it waterproof.
It also states that Enki instructed Utnapishtim/Noah, “Aboard ship take thou the seed of all living things.…” This instruction is most fascinating: because Enki had been the science officer involved in the geneticengineering of humans, it makes plausible the idea that Utnapishtim/Noah took DNA samples of all livingthings rather than a boatload of animals, insects, and plants.
Finally, as in thebiblical account, the ark of Utnapishtim/Noah came to rest atop Mount Ararat.
In one version of the story,wherein Utnapishtim/Noah actually brought animals aboard his boat, he sent a dove, a swallow, and araven from the ark.
Noah and hisfamily then left the ark and offered a burnt sacrifice, which drew the attention of the returning Anunnaki.An ancient text stated that the “gods crowded like flies” around the cooking flesh.
Genesis10:8-12 relates that Cush was a grandson of Noah and father of the legendary Nimrod, who ruled andbuilt such cities as Babylon, Erech, and Akkad from his base in Sumer, before constructing cities inAssyria, including Nineveh.
Soon the three branches of humankind—all descendants of Noah’s sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth—weretransported to the preordained locations, where different languages indeed developed over time.
Alford theorized that Utnapishtim/Noah may have had wives representing separate racial groups.
According to various “lamentations” translated by the Sumerian scholar Samuel Noah Kramer, “On theland [Sumer] fell a calamity, one unknown to man; one that had never been seen before, one which couldnot be withstood.
Despite our superficial knowledge of the Sumerians, we have already been able to credit them with manyworld “firsts.” Samuel Noah Kramer, author of History Begins at Sumer and The Sumerians, noted thatthese people developed the wheel, schools, medical science, the first written proverbs, history, the firstbicameral congress, taxation, laws, social reforms, the first cosmogony and cosmology, and the firstmoney (a weighed silver shekel), as well as the first writing system, cuneiform
Such longevity is also recorded in the Bible, wherein Methuseleh, Noah, Seth, Enos, and others arereported to have lived more than nine hundred years.
1961: Samuel Noah Kramer translated Enki and the World Order, a Sumerian text resembling the Tower of Babel story.
Epic of Gilgamesh: Describes a deluge caused by the gods, echoing the biblical story of Noah’s Ark.
This event is linked to the legend of Noah’s flood.
I was familiar with Noah's great flood story, but then I discovered that almost every culture has a great flood story.
Genesis 7 - 10 narrates a story of (one of) the survivors of Atlantis: Noah.
Genesis 7 to 10 describes the story of Noah, the flood, and humanity's renewal.
God commands Noah to build an ark to save his family and pairs of all animals from a flood meant to cleanse the earth of wickedness.
Noah releases birds to check for dry land and eventually leaves the ark to repopulate the earth.
God establishes a covenant with Noah, symbolized by a rainbow, promising never to destroy the earth with a flood again.
The chapters conclude with the genealogy of Noah's sons and the spread of nations.
The genealogy from Adam to Noah, including the ages at which each had their first son and their total lifespan:
Lamech: Noah at 182 years; lived 777 years.
Noah: Had Shem, Ham, and Japheth at 500 years; lived 950 years.
Yazidi tradition contains accounts of a great flood, similar to the narratives found in Mesopotamian texts (Epic of Gilgamesh) and Abrahamic scriptures (Noah's Ark).
One Yazidi version describes a figure named Nuh (Noah), who builds a vessel to preserve life during a catastrophic flood sent by divine will.