WAS THERE AN EVENT WHEREIN THE KNOWN WORLD OF THAT DAY WAS INUNDATED?
The major volcanic explosion of Hekla 4 in Iceland, which spewed out massive amounts of larva, coupled with a close encounter with a passing comet and a Tunguska like fireball, are believed to have been major issues in the inundation of Ireland that is said to have been left waste for 30 odd years, and the devastating flood around the Mediterranean Sea, which was the known civilized world in the days of Noah around 2350 B.C, the time when this catastrophic event is said to have occurred.
To those who are interested, I would advise them to read the Report on Second Cambridge Conference, an article by Mark Bailey Posted December 15 1997. Following is a small extract from said article.
. Marie-Agnes Courty (CNRS, Grignon) presented new archaeological data concerning a catastrophe inferred to have occurred in the Middle East c.2350 BC. She emphasized the importance of high-time-resolution archaeological investigations in the assessment of natural catastrophes on societal collapse, the data in this case indicating the combination of a burnt surface horizon and air blast, consistent with a Tunguska-like fireball, but possibly also a major volcanic event.
The evidence for regional environmental change at about the same time was confirmed and extended by Mike Baillie (Queens University Belfast), whose tree-ring analyses of Irish bog oaks showed very significant narrowing of the rings around the year 2345 BC, associated with identified tephra from the Icelandic Hekla 4 volcano, dated to 2310 +/- 20 BC. This suggests a volcanic origin of the c. 2350 BC event identified by Courty, but the period in question is also associated with other events, including floods, the creation of new lakes and even the traditional start of Chinese history! In Baillies words, 2345 BC is a classic marker date, i.e. a date which will show up on a regular basis in studies of various kinds.
I believe that the flood that occurred in Noah day, around 2,350 BC, was an event that would have been recorded and handed down by a witness of that era as a world-wide flood.
There are some scholars who claim that the ark would have been made of Reeds, but this is contrary to that which is revealed in scripture. A rectangular chest-like ark built of timber logs, would of necessity, have to be sealed inside and out with bitumen to stop it from leaking, but why would you bother to seal a boat made of self floating reeds? And somehow, a reed ark with three floors, just doesnt sit right with me.
If a (אמות
אמה, or cubit, which is said by some scholars to equal 48.0 to 57.6 cm, or 18.9 to 22.7 inches, then working on the lowest estimate of a cubit, which is 18.9 inches, the ark would have been at least 472.5 feet in length. A pretty fair lump of a floating rectangular chest in any mans language.
The Hebrew letter for K is similar to a backward facing C, while the Hebrew letter for G is also similar to a backward facing C, with a small tail. It is easy to understand that the early scholars who translated the Hebrew to English, could mistakenly have translated, Kopherwood which is any wood that is covered with bitumen, as Gopherwood.
Concerning the flood, I myself had a visitation from a god the other night, and he commanded me to build a seven story ark and to fill each deck with fish tanks filled with Carp, and I said to him, Why the hell would you want each deck filled with fish tanks filled with carp, to which he replied, Cos I want to be the first god to own a multi-storied Carp-ark.
But leaving all jokes aside, the Flood Story is a fascinating subject. Many cultures from all across the globe report in their myths, a great flood or cataclysm which besieged the earth. One interesting account in particular is the ancient Sumerian/Babylonian myth which
SUPPOSEDLY (Repeat) Supposedly pre-dates the Hebrew flood myth by thousands of years and is as follow:
Im not too sure from where the following (IN BLUE) came from. I am assuming that it was googled up by somebody and posted to me, and which I found interesting enough to file away.
Over 2000 years before George Smiths discovery of the deluge tablets in Iraq, there existed an account of the Chaldean (pre-Babylonian) flood myth. Berosus, an ancient Chaldean historian living in the time of Alexander the Great in the 4th century B.C.E, relayed to the Greeks the antiquity of his peoples deluge myth in the following words:
After the death of Ardates, his son Xisuthrus reigned eighteen sari. In his time happened a great deluge; the history of which is thus described. The deity Cronos appeared to him in a vision, and warned him that upon the fifteenth day of the month Daesius there would be a flood, by which mankind would be destroyed. He therefore enjoined him to write a history of the beginning, procedure, and conclusion of all things, and to bury it in the city of the Sun at Sippara; and to build a vessel, and take with him into it his friends and relations; and to convey on board everything necessary to sustain life, together with all the different animals, both birds and quadrupeds, and trust himself fearlessly to the deep.
Having asked the Deity whither he was to sail, he was answered, To the Gods; upon which he offered up a prayer for the good of mankind. He then obeyed the divine admonition and built a vessel five stadia in length, and two in breadth. Into this he put everything which he had prepared, and last of all conveyed into it his wife, his children, and his friends. After the flood had been upon the earth, and was in time abated, Xisuthrus sent out birds from the vessel; which not finding any food, nor any place whereupon they might rest their feet, returned to him again. After an interval of some days, he sent them forth a second time; and they now returned with their feet tinged with mud. He made a trial a third time with these birds; but they returned to him no more: from whence he judged that the surface of the earth had appeared above the waters.
He therefore made an opening in the vessel, and upon looking out found that it was stranded upon the side of some mountain; upon which he immediately quitted it with his wife, his daughter, and the pilot. Xisuthrus then paid his adoration to the earth: and, having constructed an altar, offered sacrifices to the gods
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It should be noted that the account of the deluge relayed in the tablets discovered by George Smith differ only very slightly from Berosus account, which differs only slightly from the story handed down by the Chaldean Abraham, who lived with Noah for about 58 years before the old patriarch died some 350 years after the great flood.
The Miao flood account from China, which has 8 survivors, with Noa as their head, gives the wickedness of man as the reason for the flood, and says, "These did not God's will nor returned His affection. But fought with each other defying the Godhead. Their leaders shook fists in the face of the Mighty."
Some cultures have their ancestors surviving on giant reed beds. The Greek story has them surviving in a chest, Noah has the ark.
The survivors were often a single family. An Australian aboriginal account has Ngadgja, the Supreme One, who is the great Father, telling Gajara to take his wife, his sons, and his sons' wives.
The Masai account from East Africa has Tumbainot taking his two wives, his six sons, and their wives, the Masai like to double up.
A Hawaiian story has Nuu (Noah, Noa, Nuu.) taking his wife and three sons.
Noah took his wife, his three sons, and their wives.
Genesis describes Noah sending out birds to see if there was yet dry land.
In the Hopi account also, they sent out birds to find land.
An Australian aboriginal account has a cuckoo not returning because it found land.
The Masai account has Tumbainot sending out a dove, which returned because it had no place to rest.
The Masai account has four rainbows signifying that God's wrath was over.
A Hawaiian account has the god Kane leaving a rainbow as a perpetual sign of his forgiveness.
Could the Hawaiian Kane, be the same as Cain the shining one, who killed his brother Abel in a previous age of man? Was Cain, the spiritual Son of God, who descended in the days of Jared, which name means, descending and possessed the body of Jared while he was with his wife, which union produced the giant Enoch, the first born spiritual son of Cain who never experienced death.
The Zulus are the descendants of Ham, and Ham, the Father of the Zulus, is the great grandson of Enoch. The God of the Zulus, is Unkulunkulu, which name means, Great great grandfather.
Genesis says that the rainbow would be a reminder that God would never again destroy the world "With a Flood."
The Flood of Noah didnt come as a surprise. It had been preached on for four generations. But something strange happened when Enoch was 65, from which time "he walked with God." Enoch was given a prophecy that as long as his firstborn son Methusulah was alive, the judgment of the flood would be withheld; but as soon as he died, the flood would be sent forth.
Enoch named his firstborn to reflect this prophecy. The name Methuselah comes from two roots: muth, a root that means "death;" and from shalach, which means "to bring," or "to send forth." Thus, the name Methuselah signifies, "his death shall bring." And, indeed, in the year that Methuselah died, the flood came.
Remembering that Abraham was the son of Terah, the high priest of the Chaldean city of Ur, and he was 58 years old when Noah the chaldean died and would have heard the flood story from his oldest patriarch, could the Chaldean name Ardates, mean, When he dies it will happen? And could the name Xisuthrus have the same meaning as the name Noah which is, One who brings relief or comfort?
The Chaldean month of Daesius, is the second month, which corresponds with the biblical account that it was in the second month that the flood came. But there is a two day discrepancy. The biblical account is the 17th day, whereas the other is the 15th day.
It is written in the ancient records that Eve knew that the world was to be destroyed by water and by fire, but she didnt know in what order they would come. Wanting to leave a written account of their life and times, she was stuck with the problem of what material should be used for those records. If they used clay tablets, and the fire came first, the clay tablets would bake hard and survive, but should the flood come first, the clay tablets would dissolve and their record would be lost.
But should they etch their record on stone, the flood would not affect them, but should the fiery destruction come first, the stone would crack and crumble into dust with the intense heat and the records would be lost. It was finally decided to engrave their history on stone tablets and wrap them in clay, upon which their history would be recorded also.
The more that I am forced to look at the flood accounts, the more I am convinced that some catastrophic event occurred some 4350 years ago, which caused worldwide devastating floods and tsunamis, of which the more accurate account, can be found in the Hebrew culture that came down from the Chaldean Abraham, and his family, who have remained intact as a racial religion for some 4,000 years.
Could the lakes and floods which Mike Baillie of (Queens University Belfast), suggests were formed around the time of the 2350 BC event identified by Courty, have been the result of impact, strikes, by a swarm of meteors that crossed earths orbit causing world-wide tsunamis and craters which have long since filled with water?