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So I should think that there was definitely a flood.
About right for the genetics, then.Minimalist wrote:So I should think that there was definitely a flood.
Hancock attributes it to the meltdown of the ice age... of course that puts it around 11,000 BC or so.
Is this too simplistic?Minimalist wrote:There's something in the Persian myths about the world getting suddenly colder. Sounds like a remarkable description of the Younger Dryas period when the world suddenly turned colder after a long period of glacial meltdown.
That brings us back to Firestone's asteroid/comet theory in NA again, though.
Where? I would love to see this.Minimalist wrote:There's something in the Persian myths about the world getting suddenly colder.
i have an Indian friend whose family is Christian so his parents gave him a Hebrew name, Manoah. Is this just a coincidence or is it likely that his name is a mixture of Manu and Noah?Forum Monk wrote: No more wild a concept than we all descended from Noah and his sons. In fact, by some accounts Noah landed on the mountains of Manu and very many early traditions have the name Manu associated with their flood epics. Either a sign of cultural diffusion or perhaps tales of a real event.
I dunno. What does he say?dannan14 wrote:i have an Indian friend whose family is Christian so his parents gave him a Hebrew name, Manoah. Is this just a coincidence or is it likely that his name is a mixture of Manu and Noah?
Yes ... actually, floods. The first whopper followed the LGM meltdown at about 14,400bc. The second was post Younger Dryas, 9600bc.So I should think that there was definitely a flood.
Yes, definitely.But I'm wondering if the American ones were carried there by the Mongolian types/ Siberians?
Forum Monk wrote:Where? I would love to see this.Minimalist wrote:There's something in the Persian myths about the world getting suddenly colder.
I do know that current theories and dating of the climatic disaster of the 3rd millenium roughly corresponds with the collapse of the Akkadian dynasty and subsequent invasion of the Gutium hordes from the north. This based on the widely accepted "low-chronology".
In those days Airyana Vaejo enjoyed a mild and productive climate with seven months of summer and five of winter. Rich in wildlife and in crops, its meadows flowing with streams, this garden of delights was converted into an uninhabitable wasteland of ten months’ winter and only two months summer as a result of the onslaught of Angra Mainyu, the Evil One:
The first of the good lands and countries which I, Ahura Mazda, created was the Airyana Vaejo ... Then Angra Mainyu, who is full of death, created an opposition to the same, a mighty serpent and snow. Ten months of winter are there now, two months of summer, and these are cold as to the water, cold as to the earth, cold as to the trees ... There all around falls deep snow; that is the direst of plagues ...’2
I am not a linguist or expert on how languages evolve but many people have tried to link the names of kings and peoples to the Noachic tradition by playing word games with names. I have no idea how valid any of is, but names with variations of Noah, Noa, Noach, Nuk, or Cush, Cuch, Kush, Kish or Ham, Hem, Am, Em:dannan14 wrote:Hehe, maybe he would have thought it was funny?
Anyway, Manoah simply says it is a Hebrew name. He has talked briefly about the Vedas before, but i don't think he knows of any connection. Before i met him i had never heard the name before. Most people think they are misunderstanding his accent and try to call him Noah. Because of this alot of people call him Manny.
You just reminded me of it, FM.Reminds me of the story about the Biblical archaeologist William F. Albright, who apparently identified Moses with Middlebury by the advanced scientific principle of removing the 'oses' and substituting the 'iddlebury'.
