To describe the disaster itself, I will resort to the wonderful works of the creative team consisting of A. Gorbovsky, Yu. V. Mizuna, Yu. G. Mizuna. They scrupulously analyzed many sources: “The Bible says about the disaster:
“After seven days the waters of the flood came to the earth. In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day, all the springs of the great abyss were opened, and the windows of heaven were opened. And there was rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights … And there was a flood for forty days on the earth, and the water multiplied, and lifted the ark, and it rose above the earth. And the water grew stronger and greatly increased on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters. And the water increased enormously on earth, so that all the high mountains were covered, every part under the whole sky. The water rose fifteen cubits above them, and the mountains were covered. And all flesh that moved on the earth lost its life: birds, cattle, beasts, and all the reptiles crawling on the earth, and all people. Everything that had the breath of the spirit of life in its nostrils, everything on dry land, died. And every creature was destroyed,which was on the surface of the earth; from man to cattle, and creeping things, and birds of the air, they were destroyed on earth: only Noah remained and what was with him in the ark. And the water increased on the earth for one hundred and fifty days. And God remembered Noah, and all the beasts, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark; and God brought the wind to the earth, and the waters stopped, and the springs of the abyss and the windows of heaven were closed, and the rain from heaven stopped. And the water returned from the earth gradually, and the water began to decrease after one hundred and fifty days. And the ark stopped in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat. And the water gradually decreased until the tenth month; on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains appeared. "And God remembered Noah, and all the beasts, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark; And God brought the wind to the earth, and the waters stopped, and the springs of the abyss and the windows of heaven were closed, and the rain from heaven stopped. And the water returned from the earth gradually, and the water began to decrease after one hundred and fifty days. And the ark stopped in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat. And the water gradually decreased until the tenth month; on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains appeared. "And God remembered Noah, and all the beasts, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark; and God brought the wind to the earth, and the waters stopped, and the springs of the abyss and the windows of heaven were closed, and the rain from heaven stopped. And the water returned from the earth gradually, and the water began to decrease after one hundred and fifty days. And the ark stopped in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat. And the water gradually decreased until the tenth month; on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains appeared. "on the Ararat mountains. And the water gradually decreased until the tenth month; on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains appeared. "on the Ararat mountains. And the water gradually decreased until the tenth month; on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains appeared."
The clay tablets of Sumer also speak of the flood: “In the morning a downpour gushed down, and at night I saw the rain of bread with my own eyes. I looked in the face of the weather - it was scary to look at the weather … The first day the south wind rages, quickly swooping in, flooding the mountains, as if overtaking people by war. Doesn't see each other …"
Messages about the global flood are found in the Egyptian sacred books, and in the Sanskrit texts of India, and among the peoples of the Pacific Islands, and in the traditions of both Americas. Numerous flood stories preserve the myths of South, Central and North America, from Tierra del Fuego in the south to Alaska in the north. There is not a single Indian tribe whose myths do not speak of the flood.
Ancient sources also contain images of the flood itself. In the ancient Mexican texts - "Codex Chimalpopoca" - the flood is described as follows: "The sky approached the earth, and in one day everything perished. Even the mountains disappeared under water … They say that the rocks that we see now covered the entire earth, and tetzontli (porous stone lava - a building material in Mexico) boiled and boiled with great noise, and red mountains rose up …"
The priests of the Quiche Indians in their Popol-Vuh code (modern Guatemala) wrote about the catastrophe as follows: “The face of the earth darkened, black rain began to fall, downpour during the day and downpour at night …” “Thick tar spilled from the sky …” People tried to escape and “ran as fast as they could. They wanted to climb the roofs of houses, but the houses fell and threw them to the ground; they wanted to climb the tops of the trees, but the trees were shaking them off; they wanted to hide in caves, but the caves closed in front of them."
The traditions of the Amazon Indians also contain a description of the disaster. It says that at first there was a terrible roar and roar, and then everything plunged into darkness. After that, a downpour fell on the earth, which washed away everything and flooded the whole world.
One of the Brazilian legends says: “The water rose to a great height, and the whole earth was submerged in water. The darkness and the downpour did not stop. People fled, not knowing where to hide; climbed the tallest trees and mountains."
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In the myths of the Indians of the Islands of Queen Charlotte, it is said that before the disaster the Earth was not the same as it is now, that then there were no mountains at all. This suggests that mountain building may have taken place during the same period. This is also stated in the Chimalpopoca Codex. It talks about billowing red mountains that were hot or covered with molten lava. From the memories of African peoples, it follows that the catastrophe was accompanied by hurricanes, earthquakes and volcanic activity, which in turn provoked a giant wave - a tsunami.
From the analysis and comparison of the description of the catastrophe in different places on the globe, experts concluded that the epicenter of the global catastrophe was somewhere between America and Africa. As you move away from this epicenter, the nature of the myths changes significantly, they become calmer when describing the disaster. So, in the legends of the Indians of Alaska (Tlingit tribe), only the flood is mentioned. It describes how the few surviving people sailed by canoe to the tops of the mountains to escape from the raging waters. Bears and wolves, caught up by the stream, fearlessly swam up to the boats, and people had to drive them away with spears and oars. The epic of the tribes of South America also speaks mainly of the flood, from which people managed to escape by climbing to the tops of the mountains.
If we trace the description of the catastrophe in the ancient texts in order of distance from the epicenter of the catastrophe (in the Atlantic), that is, if we slowly move through the Mediterranean Sea, Persia and further to China, then one cannot fail to notice that the nature of the description of the catastrophe softens more and more. So, the Greek epic says that during the flood the earth shook. “Some were looking for higher hills, others got into boats and worked with oars where they had recently plowed. Still others filmed the fish from the tops of the elms …"
It can be concluded that only ground vibrations and a flood wave have reached this area. At the same time, the high hills remained un-flooded. The water did not rise above the treetops. Approximately the same is said in the sacred book of the ancient Iranians "Zend-Avesta". It says that during the flood, "throughout the earth, water stood at the height of human growth."
As for Southeast Asia and China, their ancient sources say that at first the sea flooded the land, and then retreated from the coast far to the southeast. This is logical, since we are talking about a global phenomenon. This means that if in one area of the globe there was a huge tidal wave and the waters even reached mountain peaks, then in the opposite area there was inevitably an ebb tide, as described in ancient Chinese sources. Indeed, as we moved eastward, the height of the water cover gradually decreased. So, if in Central America the water reached the tops of the highest mountains, then in Greece it was not higher than the hills and treetops. Further east - in Persia, she reached only the height of human growth. We can confidently concludethat different ancient sources contain descriptions of one and the same global phenomenon. At least the spatial distribution of this phenomenon is described quite logically. And not only this suggests that a global catastrophe has occurred. The fact is that the same details are reproduced in completely different sources. This is despite the fact that the event was described by people who are at a distance of thousands of kilometers from each other. According to ancient evidence, it can be understood that the intensity of the cataclysm decreased as we moved eastward. But we just point out that the epicenter is in the Gulf of Mexico.that in completely different sources the same details are reproduced. This is despite the fact that the event was described by people who are at a distance of thousands of kilometers from each other. According to ancient evidence, it can be understood that the intensity of the cataclysm decreased as we moved eastward. But we just point out that the epicenter is in the Gulf of Mexico.that in completely different sources the same details are reproduced. This is despite the fact that the event was described by people who are at a distance of thousands of kilometers from each other. According to ancient evidence, it can be understood that the intensity of the cataclysm decreased as we moved eastward. But we just point out that the epicenter is in the Gulf of Mexico.
The ancient Chinese treatise Huaynanzi says: “The firmament broke, the earthly weights broke off. The sky tilted to the northwest, the Sun, Moon and stars moved to the north, the Earth in the southeast turned out to be incomplete, and therefore water and silt rushed there … In those distant times, the four poles collapsed (it seems that the ancient Chinese knew about the existence of 2 geographic poles and 2 magnetic ones that did not coincide with them), nine continents split, the sky could not cover everything, the earth could not support everything, the fire blazed without ceasing, the waters raged without running out.
Strabo wrote that the Sulfur (Chinese) are the people of India. But as a result of a geological cataclysm, China shifted from the middle of the earth - the equator - to the north-east, closing the strait that once ran between the southern mainland and the northern one. But for a long time still mankind remembered that there is a short northern sea route to China, and sailors stubbornly paved the way, referring to ancient statements, but they were already sailing along the coast of the Arctic Ocean. By the way, Tibetan ancient sources (for example, the book "Purma Purana") quite openly and unequivocally say that India crashed into Tibet, that on the site of the Gobi Desert there was the North Sea with the islands of Sveta-Dvina, Shambala, Chang, etc.
Until now, along the entire border of these two plates (approximately Lisbon - Ankara - Baku - Afghanistan … and so on to Sakhalin and Japan) earthquakes are shaking the earth.
And one more question. The fact that the Great Wall of China is meaningless from the point of view of military science, needless to say, is true. In that case, why was it built and was it just by chance along the former northern coast? And so quickly: in nine years - more than eight thousand kilometers; where, according to an ancient Chinese legend, the Great Fiery Horse rode across the land … What kind of horse?.. A comet? And why did all the adult population suddenly rush to build a wall in the mountains?.. Recently I read on the Internet how one scientist was perplexed: “It seems that the Chinese have no wisdom. But for some reason they persistently achieved their goal: by all means, on the bones of millions of fellow tribesmen, lay a “stone snake” along the valleys and hills, and as close as possible to the 30th geographical parallel. There is only one answer:after a major natural cataclysm and the "sticking" of two continental plates (let's conditionally call them Chinese and Mongolian), the population of China wanted to fix their disappeared northern border.
I have an Encyclopedic Map of the World on a CD. Nice map, internet. It has everything, even tiny Russian villages. The options are easily switched: from political to physical map, to demographic, climatic, to the view of the Earth from space at night … I switch to tectonic … and I see that the Great Wall of China runs along a tectonic fault!
Only in the section from the city of Baotou to the Nenjiang River is there no wall. This somewhat violated the understanding of the logic of building the wall in the light of my concept. But soon I found out that there is a wall on this section! The well-preserved remains of the Great Wall of China are a subject of research by modern archaeologists; its foundation can even be seen from space. Everything fell into place.
My confidence is also supported by the geographical maps of that time: on them the political border of China (Blau maps, Amsterdam maps of the Royal Academy of Sciences, etc.) until the 19th century passes along the Great Wall of China.
But the most amazing thing is that there is also the Great Mongol Wall, it stretches to the north, parallel to the Chinese one. The length of the "wall of Genghis Khan" is only slightly inferior to the Chinese one - 5 thousand kilometers! Part of the wall runs through the territory of Russia, from Zabaikalsk to Starotsurukatay. The conclusion suggests itself: the inhabitants of the northern, Mongolian mainland, too, rushed to fix their former borders!
The ancient Iranians were also witnesses of this disaster. This is how their holy book "Avesta" describes the situation that forced their ancestors of the Aryans to leave the country of Arianam-Vaij, where peace and bliss reigned, and to move from North to South.
22. This is what the Creator Ahura-Mazda said to Yima: “O beautiful Yima, son of Vivahvant, winters will come to this fleshly evil world, and from them a strong deadly cold. Winters will come to this fleshly evil world, and first clouds of snow will snow on the highest mountains to the depths of Ardvi.
23. The third part, O Yima, livestock will survive in the most terrible places, which are on the tops of mountains or in the river valleys in strong dwellings.
24. Before winter, the grasses of this country will grow, then, due to the melting of the snows, the waters will flow, and miraculously, O Yima, it will seem to the carnal world if they see where the sheep's footprint is. " But the evil Angara Manyu - the Deity of darkness and evil - sent down a cruel winter to the homeland of the Aryans and turned the fertile land into an icy desert: “There are ten winter months and two summer months, and they are cold - For water, cold - for earth, cold - for plants, and this is the middle of winter and the core of winter - and at the end of winter there are extreme floods."
The piercing stanzas of the Russian spiritual verse about the end of the world echo with the "Avesta":
Pestilent darkness befell us, The sun went out bright
Do not manifest your light On the faces of the earth;
Before evenings in the daytime
The night has come very dark;
Ray, change your nature, The bright moon refracted into darkness;
Stars in Heaven Fade your light, Earth and water cut their fruit;
Falling glanders from heaven, Break down unripe wheat …
Change your nature to the sea …
Come winter is very fierce, Kill the all-green grapes …
It is simply amazing how such poems - a masterpiece of oral folk art - have survived to this day. Maybe it's time to admit that it was not so long ago that it was written?..
In South America, the Toba Indians of the Gran Chaco region, located at the junction of the modern borders of Paraguay, Argentina and Chile, still repeat the myth of the coming of the "Great Cold".
In this case, the warning comes from a semi-divine heroic figure named Asin:
“Asin told the man to collect as much wood as possible and cover the hut with a thick layer of reeds, because the Great Cold was coming. Having prepared the hut, Ashin and the man locked themselves in it and waited. When the Great Cold came, trembling people came and began to ask them for a firebrand. Asin was firm and shared the coals only with his friends. People began to freeze, they shouted all evening. By midnight, they all died, young and old, men and women … The ice lasted for a very long time, all the lights went out. The frost was as thick as skin."
As in the Avestan legends, here the great cold was also accompanied by great darkness.
In the words of Elder Toba, these tribulations were sent down, “because when the earth is full of people, it has to change. You have to reduce the population to save the world. When the long darkness came, the sun disappeared and people began to starve. When they ran out of food, they began to eat their children. And in the end they died …"
In the Mayan book Popol-Vuh, the flood is associated with “heavy hail, black rain, fog and indescribable cold”. It also says that at this time it was “cloudy and gloomy all over the world. The faces of the Sun and Moon were hidden. " Other Mayan sources say that these strange and terrible phenomena have befallen humanity “at the time of our ancestors. The ground went dark. At first the sun shone brightly. Then it got dark in broad daylight. Sunlight did not return until twenty-six months after the flood."
The reader may recall that in many myths about the flood and catastrophe there is a reference not only to the great darkness, but also to other visible changes in the sky. The inhabitants of Tierra del Fuego, for example, said that the sun and moon "fell from the sky," and the Chinese said that "the planets changed their path. The sun, moon and stars began to move in a new way. " The Incas believed that "in antiquity, the Andes split when the sky was at war with the earth." The Tarahumara in northern Mexico have legends about the destruction of the world as a result of the change in the path of the Sun. An African myth from the lower reaches of the Congo says that “a long time ago the Sun met the Moon and threw mud at it, which made it dim.
When this meeting took place, there was a great flood. " The Kato Indians from California simply say "the sky has fallen." And in ancient Greco-Roman myths it is said that the Deucalion flood was immediately preceded by terrible events in heaven. They are symbolically described in the story of how Phaethon, the son of the Sun, tried to drive his father's chariot: “The fiery horses quickly felt that an inexperienced hand was holding the reins.
Now backing, now rushing to the side, they left the usual path; then the whole earth saw with amazement how the magnificent Sun, instead of following its eternal and majestic path, suddenly rolled over and headlong flew down like a meteor."
Thus, we can state that frightening changes in the heavens were recorded all over the world and appear in the legends of the cataclysm. We note that in these legends we are talking about the same "disorder in the heavens", after which the fatal winter and icing, described in the Persian "Avesta", came.
I ask the reader once again to pay special attention to the fact that our ancestors directly and unequivocally point to the “night” that followed immediately after the cataclysm, along with which a sharp cold snap set in on the planet. The man hid in the caves, because the stone vaults of the cave are heated by the fire, it is possible to keep warm. By the way, the effect of warm cave vaults was successfully used to heat large rooms in feudal castles. To survive, people were forced to eat "what God sent", or rather, what God left: fallen frozen animals, including mammoths.
I had to hide from the cold with animal skins … And this after the heavenly conditions of life!.. And such a cave life lasted for about two or three years. This time was enough for the earth to be covered with a layer of ice. But with the advent of the Sun, the ice melted and retreated to the north. People, as one ancient scripture says, "followed the retreating glacier."
I think that this was the only ice age on Earth that Academician Ivan Grigorievich Pidoplichko speaks about.
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When and why did “the Lord confuse tongues”? I would like to offer the reader an interesting version of Yaroslav Kesler: “The stratification of the common European language began not with the fall of Constantinople, but much earlier: with a global cold snap … Not so much the isolation of certain groups of the population, as the scurvy resulting from the cold snap, dramatically changed the phonetic picture of Europe.
Babies, whose teeth fell out, not having time to grow, could not physically pronounce dental sounds, and the rest of their vocal apparatus was forced to rebuild for a more or less intelligible pronunciation of the simplest words. This is the reason for the striking phonetic changes in the area where scurvy was rampant!
The sounds d, t, "th", s, z fell out with the teeth, and the gums and tongue swollen from scurvy could not pronounce the contractions of two consonants. This is tacitly evidenced by the French circonflexes above the vowels. In addition to the territory of France, phonetics was severely affected in the British Isles, in Lower Germany and, in part, in Poland (pshekanye). Where there was no scurvy, phonetics did not suffer - these are Russia, the Baltic States, Ukraine, Slovakia, Yugoslavia, Romania, Italy and further to the south”. From my point of view, the version is not devoid of meaning: the sun did not shine for many months, icing of the earth's surface began. Fruits (the main food of the original person) did not ripen, vitamins were not supplied to the body, the person was forced to eat rough meat … Maybescurvy really gave an impetus to the divergence of language norms … And the divergence was completed by space and inexorable time.
So, once again, let's take a look at the topic. "Popol Vuh", the sacred book of the Quiche Indians, reports that after the disaster, suddenly "great cold came, the sun was not visible."
The myths of ancient Mexico and Venezuela say that shortly after the disaster came a terrible cold, and the sea was covered with ice. Some Indian tribes remember long journeys on the ice of the frozen sea. Such evidence is especially significant; because now these areas are located near the equator, and those who live there see neither ice nor snow, and it is difficult for them even to imagine that the sea, the stormy and vast expanse of the ocean can turn into a flat, hard and cold surface extending to the horizon … And the tribes now living in the Amazon rainforest still have memories of the terribly long winter that followed the catastrophe, when people froze and died from the cold. "Zend-Avesta", the sacred book of the ancient Persians, also tells about the king of darkness,who wanted to make the blessed homeland of the ancient Aryans uninhabited and sent cold and frost to it. For all peoples, the idea of the world as it was before the flood is associated with myths about the golden age, when it was so warm that people did not need clothing, and the fertile land brought crops several times a year. The Zend-Avesta, the legends of the American Indians, and Chinese sources tell about this.
And in the ancient Mexican tradition it is directly said that before the catastrophe "the Sun was closer to the Earth than it is now, and its gracious warmth made clothes unnecessary."
And one more thing: many peoples speak about the fiery horse: both in the Chinese treatise, and in the Avesta, and in the Vedas, etc., and in Russian verses: "Falling glanders from heaven …"
From the book: "Secrets of a Lost Civilization." A. Bogdanov