He is an important link in the lineage from Adam to Noah.
A flood destroys all flesh on Earth except for those on Noah’s Ark.
Sakla gives the Earth to Noah and his sons to rule over in kingly fashion.
Noah then divides the Earth among his sons Ham, Japheth and Shem and warns them to serve Sakla in fear and slavery.
In Mesopotamia that role belongs to Utnapishtim (Ziusudra in Sumerian, Atrahasis in Akkadian), the counterpart of Noah.
Genesis 5 gives these lifespans from Adam to Noah:
Noah, Lamech’s son, lived for 950 years.
The flood came in Noah’s 600th year (Genesis 7:6).
Adding the full lifespans to Noah’s 600 years gives:
Counted that way, Noah is born 1,056 years after Adam’s creation, and the flood comes in year 1,656.
Did Adam and Noah really live over 900 years?
Later on, you'll learn what the Garden of Eden is, and we dive deeper into the significance of Noah and the flood.
According to the Sumerian texts, Enki was the one who instructed Noah to build an ark so humanity could be saved.
Third World (World of Water): This world was obliterated by a great flood, a common theme in many cultures' mythologies, including the Biblical story of Noah's Ark.
Noah's Ark (Genesis 8:7): After the great flood, Noah first sent out a raven to see if the waters had receded.
Those who have read "Sapiens" by Yuval Noah Harari might think it's the most current portrayal of our past.
Regarding their relationship to Noah, according to the biblical narrative, the Canaanites were descendants of Canaan, who was a son of Ham, one of Noah's three sons.
24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.
This is part of the curse Noah pronounces on Canaan after Noah's son Ham, who is Canaan's father, sees Noah naked and tells his brothers, Shem and Japheth, who then cover their father without looking at him.
A 4th generation descendant of Noah
Hud is said to have been a subject of a mulk (Arabic: مُلك, kingdom) named after its founder, 'Ad, a fourth-generation descendant of Noah (his father being Uz, the son of Aram, who was the son of Shem, who in turn was a son of Noah):
Their eponymous ancestor ʿAd was fourth in generation from Noah, having been a son of 'Aus, the son of Aram, the son of Sam, the son of Noah.
God sends the Great Flood to rid the earth of the Nephilim, but sends Uriel to warn Noah, so as not to eradicate the human race.
1 Enoch 10 adds a flood warning to Noah, the binding of the Watchers, the destruction of the Watchers’ children, and the healing of the earth.
Watchers and Nephilim anxiety around Noah’s birth also sit on my Genesis Apocryphon page.
Seth's line runs down to Noah.
19 As it was with Noah so shall it be with thee; but through thy ministry my name shall be known in the earth forever, for I am thy God.
In this context, "Ham" could refer to a biblical figure known as one of the sons of Noah.
26 Pharaoh, being a righteous man, established his kingdom and judged his people wisely and justly all his days, seeking earnestly to imitate that order established by the fathers in the first generations, in the days of the first patriarchal reign, even in the reign of Adam, and also of Noah, his father, who blessed him with the blessings of the earth, and with the blessings of wisdom, but cursed him as pertaining to the Priesthood.
27 Now, Pharaoh being of that lineage by which he could not have the right of Priesthood, notwithstanding the Pharaohs would fain claim it from Noah, through Ham, therefore my father was led away by their idolatry;
Noah, known for building the Ark in the biblical account of the Flood, had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
The term Hamitic originally referred to the peoples said to be descended from Ham, one of the Sons of Noah according to the Bible.
According to the Book of Genesis, after Noah became drunk and Ham dishonored his father, upon awakening Noah pronounced a curse on Ham's youngest son, Canaan, stating that his offspring would be the "servants of servants".
In consequence, some 19th century theologians emphasized that the biblical Noah restricted his curse to the offspring of Ham's youngest son Canaan, while Ham's son Mizraim, the ancestor of the Egyptians, was not cursed.
Donnelly argues that the Biblical Flood represents a folk memory of Atlantis, so Donnelly would be taking the comparison the other way, turning Noah into an Elendil.
In consequence of this [black magic], war was declared, the story of which would be too long to narrate; its substance may be found in the disfigured allegories of the race of Cain, the giants, and that of Noah and his righteous family.
Cain, the giants, Noah, and the Babylonian flood are, in her reading, later allegories of that same catastrophe.
Rosh Hashanah 11b: The Talmud mentions that during the flood in Noah’s time, the Holy One moved two stars from Pleiades (“Kimah”), causing the floodwaters to descend.
Thanks to Noah and the Sirian overlord who warned him, we have a flourishing civilization today.
Noah and the flood
Columns 2-5 tell the story of the birth of Noah, using both third-person accounts, and first person language from the point of view of Lamech, Noah's father.
This passage opens with the title "[A Copy of] The Book of the Words of Noah", which parallels Persian chancery hand.
The narrative is written in first person from Noah's point of view and is his testament about the events that took place during his life.
Column 6 begins with Noah's declaration that he is a righteous man who has been warned about darkness.
6, line 13), comes to Noah with a warning about an upcoming flood.
Noah heeds the being's proclamation, and thus survives the flood in an ark with his family.
When the flood has ceased, the ark comes to rest in the Ararat mountains, and Noah leaves the boat to give a thank offering to God.
God appears to Noah and makes a covenant with him to rule over the earth, so long as he and his sons do not consume blood.
This covenant between God and man is made manifest by a rainbow "a sign for [Noah] in the clouds" (col.
Noah and his family adhere to the covenant by cultivating the land.
Children are born to Noah's sons, and he plants a vineyard.
Four years after the flood, Noah holds a festival in his vineyard to praise God.
The interpretation of the vision is also granted to Noah; he is the cedar tree with many shoots because he will have many descendants.
The passage ends with a detailed description of how Noah divides up the land among his sons, who in turn divide their shares of land among their sons.
This series of columns is a retelling of the story of Abram, though with much closer adherence to the biblical Genesis than the Noah account, sometimes even translating portions of the Genesis text verbatim.
Shuruppak is known for being the city associated with the Sumerian king Ziusudra, who is a figure in Sumerian flood myths similar to the biblical story of Noah.
Noah was 600 years old when the Flood came (Genesis 7:6).
Figures on the same shelf include Anu, Alalu (Earth / gold discoverer in Sitchin-style lists), Poseidon as an Anunnaki father in Matias’s map, and Noah / Manu as flood-survivor neighbors.
This is the biblical genealogy according to the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible, which outlines the descendants of Noah's three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth after the Flood.
1Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.2The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.3And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.4And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.5By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.6And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.7And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.8And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.9He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.10And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.11Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,12And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city.13And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,14And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim.15And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,16And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite,17And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,18And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.19And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.20These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.21Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.22The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.23And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.24And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber.25And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.26And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazar-maveth, and Jerah,27And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,28And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,29And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan.30And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a mount of the east.31These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.32These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
1And Elohim blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
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.
8And Elohim spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,9And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;10And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.11And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.12And Elohim said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:13I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.14And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:15And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.16And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between Elohim and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.17And Elohim said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.18And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.19These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread.
Based on the writing style this part is likely a later addition:20And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:21And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.22And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers without.23And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.24And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.25And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brothers.26And he said, Blessed be Yahweh of Elohim of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.27God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
28And Noah lived after the flood 350 years.29And all the days of Noah were 955 years: and he died.
The passage jumps from the flood story to Noah’s vineyard and what follows.
Genesis 9:20 calls Noah ish ha-adamah (אִישׁ הָאֲדָמָה), “man of the ground.” The phrase is unique.
It is not used for Noah before this point.
Yet the story has Noah plant a vineyard and get drunk soon after the flood.
Noah’s curse falls on Canaan, Ham’s son, and not on Ham himself.
Genesis 9:20–27 was likely a separate tradition grafted onto the Noah story.
Only the opening phrase does that: “Noah began to be a man of the soil.” That phrase can also be read loosely, as a description of who Noah was rather than a marker of sequence.
Noah may have had a visionary trance while drunk.
The curse on Canaan could be a vision or oracle that Noah spoke in an altered state, rather than a punishment:
Noah drinks.
After the event, Noah does not take part in the world again.
According to the Bible, Shem was one of Noah’s three sons.
The Table lists the descendants of Noah’s sons and the nations they became.
1And Elohim remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and Elohim made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;
5And the waters decreased continually until the 10th month: in the 10th month, on the 1st day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.6And it came to pass at the end of 40 days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:7And he sent forth a raven, which moved around until the waters were dried up from off the earth.8Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;9But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.10And he stayed yet other 7 days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;11And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.12And he stayed yet other 7 days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.13And it came to pass 601 years, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.14And in the 2nd month, on the 27th day of the month, was the earth dried.15And God spake unto Noah, saying,16Go forth of the ark, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you.17Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you, of all (pure?) flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.18And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him:19Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.20And Noah builded an altar unto Yahweh Elohim; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.21And Yahwey Elohim smelled a sweet savour; and Yahwey Elohim said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.22While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
We now learn that the Flood was sent as a punishment of the Adamites; and if they were all destroyed except Noah and his family, the populations of preadamites remained dispersed widely over northern and estern Asia.
Noah is a Semitic derivative of the much earlier Sumerian name “Utnapishtim” and the Akkadian “Ziusudra.” The writings of these civilizations all portray a Noah-like character who is warned of the flood by the god Enki.
Was Noah from the Bible an Atlantean?
Thanks to Noah and the Sirian overlord who warned him, we have a flourishing civilization today.
In the Book of the Watchers (1 Enoch 1–36) there is no mention of Noah’s ark as a boat.
Then said the Most High, the Holy and Great One spoke, and sent Uriel to the son of Lamech, and said to him: Go to Noah and tell him in my name "Hide thyself!" and reveal to him the end that is approaching: that the whole earth will be destroyed, and a deluge is about to come upon the whole earth, and will destroy all that is on it.
In his History of Armenia, he wrote that Noah and his family first settled in Armenia and later moved to Babylon. Hayk, a descendant of Japheth, a son of Noah, revolted against Bel (the biblical Nimrod) and returned to the area around Mount Ararat, where he established the roots of the Armenian nation.
1And Uriel said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.2Of every clean beast you shalt take to you by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.3Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.4For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth 40 days and 40 nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
5And Noah did according unto all that Uriel commanded him.6And Noah was 600 years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
Family of Noah
8Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,9There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as Uriel had commanded Noah.10And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.11In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month (77 days?), the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the portals?
12And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.13In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;14They, and every original beast, and all the pure/original cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.
Cayce explicitly links this kind of degeneracy to the Noah/flood period.
“Humankind had become so evil and degenerate during Noah’s time that misshapen mixtures and half-human beasts had begun to populate the earth, and would eventually become the basis for the legendary creatures of Greek and Roman mythology.”
15And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.16And they that went in, went in male and female of pure flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.17And the flood was 40 days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.18And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.
21And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:22All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.23And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both altered humans, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
The verse claims total destruction of humanity (“Noah only remained alive”), yet the very next chapters show Noah’s sons finding wives and repopulating the earth.
Cayce explicitly said that Noah and his family were not the only survivors.
P has a theological agenda: it wants to present the flood as a complete reset — a total judgment on a corrupt world, followed by a new creation with Noah as the new Adam figure.
"As it was during the days of Noah" Jesus said the "Son of Man" will appear at an unexpected moment, "as it was during the days of Noah." Pleiadians have previously shared that Noah, his family and many species of animals were saved by Galactic Federation during the last great cataclysm that wiped out Atlantis.
“As were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.”
“Just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of Man.
They were eating and drinking, and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.”
Ark’s necessity: If the Flood were local, Noah could simply have moved away; building the Ark would have been unnecessary.
Genesis 7:7 notes that Noah entered the ark with his sons and their wives.
Since Genesis does not record where these women came from, some interpreters argue that not all wives were originally aboard the Ark, and that intermarriage after the flood might have involved survivors from outside Noah’s household.
The god who instructed Noah to build the arc was Uriel or Anu
1And it came to pass, when human began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,2That the sons of the Elohim saw the daughters of human that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.3And Yahweh (or Enki) of Elohim said, My appearance shall not always strive with humans, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be limited to 120 years.4There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of the Elohim came in unto the daughters of human, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty human which were of old, human of renown5And Elohim saw that the rebellion of humans was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.6And it repented the LORD that he had made humans on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.7And the LORD said, I will destroy altered humans whom I have created from the face of the earth; both altered humans, and altered beast, and the altered creeping thing, and the altered fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.8But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.9These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just altered human and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
10And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.11The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.12And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.13And God said unto Noah, The end of all altered life is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.14Make you an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.15And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be 135 meters, the breadth of it 22.5 meters, and the height of it 13.5 meters.16A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.17And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all altered life, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every altered thing that is in the earth shall die.18But with you will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and your sons, and your wife, and your sons' wives with you.19And of every living thing of original flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee you; they shall be male and female.20Of fowls after their kind original fowls, and of cattle after their kind original cattle, of every original creeping thing of the earth, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.21And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.22Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.
Genesis also has ten generations from Adam to Noah in Genesis 5, and then the number 120 just before the Flood.
The names Methuselah, Lamech, Adam, and Seth appear in the Bible's Book of Genesis, chapter 5, as part of the genealogy tracing the line from Adam to Noah.
Genesis 7 - Noah and the Flood