Prehistoric flood legend
A very interesting phenomenon is that coincides with the story of " Atlantis " being destroyed by a big flood, there are legends about flood in the culture of most parts of the world and nations, although the content is different.
prehistoric flood
" Bible " story
Adam and Eve were expelled from Eden , and after they were expelled from Eden , they had to learn to work, slash and fire, and support themselves. Humans began to reproduce rapidly. In order to survive, people's resentment and evil thoughts are increasing day by day, and they fight, fight and plunder each other endlessly. The violence and sin in the world made God very sad and regretted that he had created human beings. He wanted to eliminate all the people, animals, insects, and birds on the earth and build a new ideal world. So, on February 17, the sea fountains cracked, and huge columns of water spurted out from the ground, and heavy rain continued day and night, and it took a full 40 days. The earth is vast and unrestrained, with the sea rising rapidly, higher than the highest mountain peak. All animals that rely on their lungs to breathe on dry land are dead. Because he received the will of God in advance, Noah, who had just celebrated his 600th birthday, hid in the ark where he was ready to escape, and there were also storages of various animals and plant seeds in order to continue to survive after the flood recedes. In this way, the ark drifted on the boundless ocean with God's high hopes until the flood disappeared and humans began to reproduce again.
Noah's Ark
Mesopotamia Myth
In the beginning, the god of heaven, the great guardian Enrile, the goddess of war and sex Ishdaer, and the god of water Aiya jointly ruled the earth, among which Aiya is the guardian god of mankind. As humans continue to reproduce, the whole world is full of noise, making the gods unable to sleep. So the gods decided to destroy humans.
Before the flood came, a pile of dark clouds emerged in the sky; the god of storm Adad galloped, and thunder came from where the iron cavalry passed; the god of storm turned day into night, destroying the earth like a tear of a cup. Then, the storm swept across the earth, causing mountain torrents everywhere, and the world was pitch black. For six days and six nights, the storm and flood roared at the same time, and the flood flooded the entire world. At dawn on the seventh day, the storm from the south finally subsided, the sea gradually returned to tranquility, the flood began to subside, and all living things on the earth were buried in the water.
Greek Myth
Greek myth is also filled with memories of floods. In the 8th century BC, ancient Greek folklore collected by the Greek poet Heithiod mentioned that before the emergence of today's humans, there were four different races on the earth, each one being advanced than later, and each one being "swallowed" by a geological upheaval at the destined moment. These four races are the Golden Clan, the Silver Clan, the Bronze Clan and the Iron Clan to which we belong.
According to the description of Greek mythology, the bronze clan has "the power of giants and its limbs are very thick." But in order to punish the giant Prometheus for the crime of stealing the sky fire and bringing fire to mankind, the king of gods launched a great flood, "from isthmus to Peloponnese , everything we see is vast", destroying all the great men who stand tall.
Egyptian myth
Ancient Egyptian myths and legends also have stories of great floods. For example, a funeral scripture found in the tomb of Pharaoh Seti I mentions that a flood will destroy sinful humans. Ancient Egypt The Book of the Dead Chapter 175 says that due to various crimes of human beings, such as quarrel, fighting, crime, creating hatred, killing creatures, causing trouble everywhere, and oppressing the kindness, the moon god Suo Shen decided to eliminate everything she created at the time. So, a great flood came to the world, turning the earth into a big puddle, and regaining the original appearance of the early days.
Chinese myth
early Jesus priests once entered the Royal Library of China to consult a collection of 4320 volumes of essays that contain "all knowledge" since ancient times (referred to unknown - editor).There are several myths and legends in this big book that in ancient times, humans once betrayed gods, causing the universe to be disordered and fell into complete chaos: the stars change their direction of movement, the sky tilts northward, the sun, moon and stars are in a disorderly manner, the earth collapses, and floods break out, floods floods flooding, and everything on the ground.
Central American Myth
In the Mexican Valley on the other side of the earth, both culturally and geographically, they are blocked from Judaism and Christian spheres of influence. However, long before the invasion of Spanish , many stories about the flood had been circulated by local residents. American residents believe that a major flood occurred at the end of the Fourth Solar Age. The flood flooded the entire earth, "Hihe rains fell sharply, mountain torrents broke out, the earth was vast, the mountains were hidden in the water, and humans turned into fish and shrimps."
Mayan 's sacred book "Bobo Wu Jing" also records this great flood in which the gods punished mankind. According to this ancient scripture, the gods decided to create humans after they created the world. In this experiment, it "carved portraits from wood to let them speak." These wood men later lost their favor because "they forgot the existence of the Creator." So, the sky launched a big flood, and the waves rolled, flooding these wooden men. The thick resin fell from the sky, the earth was dark, and the black rain poured down, and the wooden men were smashed, destroyed and destroyed one by one.
South American myth
In the myth of the Tsipka tribe in central Colombia Indian , an old man named Pozika taught the Tsipka people to build thatched huts, form a society, and start living a group life. His wife's name is Qiya. Although she is very beautiful, she is vicious by nature. She tries every means to block her husband and prevent him from helping the Chipka people. She did not dare to oppose her husband head-on, so she secretly used magic to launch a major flood to drown most of the residents in the village.
In the Tierra del Fuego Islands at the extreme southern end of South America, there is a myth that the Moon Queen hates the chaos and unrest in the world and launches a great flood, bringing a great disaster to the humans on earth. All humans were buried in the flood, and only a few people survived by escaping to the five peaks standing on the water.
The mystery of the flood
According to experts' estimates, there are more than 500 known flood myths and legends in the world. After analyzing and researching 86 of them (20 in Asia, 3 in Europe, 7 in Africa, 46 in the Americas, 10 in Australia and the Pacific), it was found that 62 of them were formed independently and had nothing to do with the cultural traditions of Mesopotamia and Hebrew . We have every reason to say that in every cultural circle on the earth, similar mythological traditions have been preserved and left to future generations. These tragic myths tell in vivid language that a global catastrophe that almost destroyed all mankind in ancient times. In recent years, the achievements of archaeology and geology have continuously provided a basis for our explanation.
Noah's Ark, various animals escaped
How did the legendary flood form? Scientists speculated: At the end of the ice season, the atmosphere was turbulent, and a large number of volcanoes erupted, the ice melted rapidly, and flooded. In just a few decades, the ice bed more than 1,600 meters thick has melted, the sea level has risen by nearly 150 meters, and the land of the past has become a vast ocean. As the ice bed melted, Great Britain and Scandinavia formed from then on, and huge climate change finally took shape. At this time, it was also the time when the flood covered South America. The remains of whale found in Michigan, USA were proof of this. Between science and myth, we seem to find some kind of fit.
Sphinx water erosion traces
Scientists have found that Egypt, standing in the dry desert of North Africa, has experienced the erosion of rain for a long time. By observing the stone figures, scientists noticed symmetrical wavy erosion traces, a result that was different from other findings in this area. Obviously, these imprints are the result of hundreds of years of heavy rain erosion.Scientists speculate that the Sphinx did not appear during the pharaoh period, but around 1500 BC, when it was the end of the last ice season. Since the end of the last ice season, there has never been such a rich precipitation here again.
Labli Oil Pit
Los Angeles, USA is a famous tourist attraction, with large and small pit pools distributed here, and there is a salt lake oil field underground. The oil layer is like a book that records thousands of years of natural history, and each oil layer is a chapter in the book. They show the process of destruction of some species over decades. It was around 1500 BC, which was the end of the last ice season. At that time, in just a few years, the temperature soared by five degrees Celsius. The asphalt seeps out of the cracks once made these pit pools a huge trap for capturing various prehistoric animals.
Greenland Ice Cap
A Climateology team once chiseled open the Greenland ice cap. After analyzing the ice layer, they found evidence of a huge change in the climate there. They found that during the melting of the ice there, the volcanic ash content and density in the ice was much higher than any time in the past 110,000 years.
The truth of the Antarctic continent
The Antarctic continent has been silently lying across the southern end of the earth. However, over time, its figure gradually appeared in people's sight in discussions about early human civilization. "Relativity" thinker Einstein even believes that the Antarctic continent may also be one of the birthplaces of civilization. He believes that more than 10,000 years ago, there was a crust translation fault, that is, "the crust once suddenly moved the fault like an orange peel."
He believes that the two-mile thick ice layer extends, and the central area once connected to the American continent, and these ice layers weigh tens of billions of tons. If the composition of these ice layers is lost, it will cause the earth to rotate rapidly like a wheel, and this violent rotational movement will cause the ice layer to break and slide. Around 12,500 BC, the Arctic was perhaps located near the North Coast of Canada, and then, after about 3,000 kilometers of movement, finally reaching its current location. Or, the sudden movement of the earth's crust drives the land and the oceans to cross the poles. If this is true, then North American should be separated from the polar regions, but the ice layer covering it melted away. If the Arctic has been displaced, then the South Pole has also been displaced. A portion of Antarctica should have been located in temperate areas about 12,000 years ago. Therefore, it is very likely that an ancient civilization has been nurtured there. But the displacement of the earth's crust triggered sudden changes in floods and climate. The climate on the Antarctic continent has become unusually cold. As the mainland was covered with ice and snow, civilization disappeared.
Flood
Can we imagine that the Antarctic continent was in a temperate zone ten thousand years ago. The superior natural environment has nurtured highly developed civilizations. The people there mastered advanced nautical technology and astronomical knowledge, and they led a fleet to shuttle between the oceanic continents. They brought their civilization to every corner of the world, brought wisdom and miracles to the wild and backward continents, and also became a bridge for exchanges and connections between each other's culture. The sudden change in the earth's crust triggered a huge disaster. The floods flooded the entire world and the oceans and continents continued to move. The Antarctic continent is gradually covered by ice and snow, and the kingdoms and people that once spread civilization are also buried forever with the cover of ice and snow. Inferences and explanations like
seem to be more appalling than the puzzle of the origin of civilization. Will this be the truth? The starting point of human civilization is so long that we once considered it to be 10,000 years ago? That flood really destroyed the world, destroyed human civilization beyond today and everything related to such civilization? Did the Antarctic continent covered with ice and snow really have human civilization? Some of these questions may have an answer in the near future, and some may never give the answer.But no matter what, human beings always hope to try to find the truth of ancient stories by constantly pieced together evidence from various places and the words left in historical books. Of course, maybe one day we will find that humans' efforts to pursue the truth are just creating another myth while breaking the old myth.
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