The first migrationfrom the great disaster were the pygmies..these people were dark skinned, short, with very frizzy, almost woolly hair. still be found in the; Congo Basin, Andaman Islands, the Highlands of New Guinea and the Phillipines. It has been confirmed by geneticists that there are specific DNA markers that indicate without a doubt that The Highlanders of New Guinea are directly related to the Pygmies of the Congo Basin. they constituted a major pan global population that was crushed by a major natural catastrophe.
Dust from this massive explosion would have dimmed the planet, cooling it down and creating droughts and famine that may have lasted for over 10 years. Survivors of this world population of Pygmies can still be found in the Congo, Andaman Islands, Phillippines, New Guinea highlands and some Aborigines of North Queensland. they bring Malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum with them
The second wave of humans to leave Africa after the Toba disaster were the Anu. The age of the Pygmy was over and a new balance of human genes spread across the planet. This time they were taller, had wavy black hair and beards. In Africa they were called the Anu, in India - the Veda, in Japan - the Ainu, in Lake Toba - the Batak and in Australia, numerous tribes went under many different names.
Cro Magnon man lived in the colder areas of Eurasia, had pale skin, blonde hair and a beard, he was very tall, averaging 6 to 10 feet. The Veda were also tall and had beards, but living in the tropics they developed a darker skin for protection against the damaging rays of the sun. These people saw the sea levels around the planet, recede to 140m below their present level. They are bound to have witnessed many natural catastrophes.
Anu was the culture bringer to the Sumerians. a garden in Eden' which was a fertile valley overlooking fertile plains in Lebanon where a village named Ehdin still exists. Then 600 years later the "Shining ones" - white faced, purple robed people with gold wings came and gave them incredible scientific knowledge. These people were obviously survivors of the pan Atlantic culture that also gave rise to the purple robed, red haired Phoenicians, the blue robed copper culture of the Tuaregs, the seafaring Berbers, Celts, Basques, Toltecs, Anasazi and Araucano. Therefore we have a Veda bringing knowledge of agriculture and a Caucasian American bringing science to the Sumerians to start Western civilization.
what was the global catastrophe that ended these civilizations?
the ancient wise who survive told the new generation - The wise Egyptian priest in talking to Solon, gives a fairly good picture of what has happened in the past; " There have been and will be again, many destructions of mankind arising out of many causes, the greatest have been brought about by the agency of fire (comets) and water (ice age meltdown), and other lesser ones by innumerable other causes (volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis)."The declination of bodies moving in the heavens around the earth, and a great conflagration of things upon the earth (comet/asteroid impacts), which recurs after long intervals; at such times those who live upon the mountains and in the dry lofty places are more liable to destruction than those who dwell by the rivers or on the sea shore. When on the other hand, the gods purge the earth with a deluge of water, the survivors will be those who dwell up on the mountains, as the water always having a tendancy to come up from below (Tsunamis and sea level rises)." He also says "that wherever the extremity of winter frost (Ice ages) or of summer sun (climatic change and drought after volcanic eruptions) does not prevent mankind to exist, sometimes in greater, sometimes in lesser numbers." These disasters "leaves only those of you who are destitute of letters and education, and so to begin all over again like children, and know nothing of what happened in ancient times."
so many ages ago..years ago a large celestial body impacted the planet south of South Africa
in Siberia, rupturing the earth's surface, creating a massive 12,000 feet thick lava flow, this catastrophe ended the 'Age of Amphibians' and almost wiped out all life on Earth
once again, the opposite side of the planet ruptured, creating the Deccan in India, a 5,000 foot thick lava flow. This catastrophe brought to an end the 'Age of the Dinosaurs'
140metre rise in sea level since the last ice age was not necessarily gradual, but may have occured in steps, as massive ice shelves broke off the Polar ice cap and drifted into tropical waters, melting within the year. Rapid rise in sealevel is also believed to have been caused by massive lakes forming on top of the ice sheets as the ice melted, then in one terrible moment the ice holding back the water would break and this huge body of water would gather all the other lakes in its path, resulting in a massive sheet of water punching into the ocean causing a tsunami and contributing to a rise in sea level of a couple of metres.
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lots of Ur towns (Uratai, Uruguay, Urubamba, Uruacu, Uruana, Urubu, Urubupunga, Urucuca, Urutagua), leading up to Tin, Gold and Silver mines in the Andes.
The Tin was extremely important as it was used for making Bronze.
The people of the ancient Mesopotamian city of Ur have in their culture, a mythical dragon, almost identical to the Taniwha.
Hittites had statues with white shell eyes inlaid with obsidian. They also appear to be influenced by a similar culture to the builders of the Moai on Rapa nui. The Harrapan culture, of which remnants are still found amongst the 'The Birdmen' living on the swamps of the Indus River, was once the home of the Harrapan script, the script from which Rongo Rongo script is derived. The Birdman religion on Rapa nui has many parallels to this ancient Indian culture. Even the name for the sun (Ra) is common to both Maori and early Egyptian cultures.
old tales narrate of ancient tribes of giants known as Dinagats that once lived in Samal island that now faces the modern city of Davao, south of Mindanao
The giants were eventually eliminated through poisoning by neighboring groups (they drifted a raft filled with delectable food) in retaliation for their misdeeds (which the giants mistook as offerings in submission to their 'superiority'), for the giants would often raid and steal from these villages, and kidnap their women. Some children borne out of it retained the gargantuan features and they were assimilated with the tribe, while those borne of small stature were given less attention and segregated with the women. These however, proved fatal for the giants as they were the only ones allowed to feast on the poisoned food. Eventually the giants died, leaving only the smaller people as survivors. To differentiate from the giant Dinagats, they called themselves Samal, meaning "leftovers" or "dregs."
These giant races had been mentioned in Biblical passages and known as "Nephilims," or by more historical sources, from the documents of the Sumerians, the most ancient of civilizations in Post-Deluvian human history that were once based in present day Iraq and dated to as far as 6000 BC but mysteriously vanished about 2000 BC
Pan seducing a Maenad. Pan is the Greek god who watches over shepherds and their flocks. He has the hindquarters, legs, and horns of a goat, in the same manner as a satyr. His parentage is unclear; in some legends he is the son of Zeus and in some he is the son of Hermes. His mother is said to be a nymph.
Pan is famous for his sexual prowess - he had every one of the Maenads in one orgiastic riot or another. Maenads were female worshippers of Dionysus-Bacchus, the god of mystery, wine and intoxication. They were known as wild, insane women who could not be reasoned with. The mysteries of Dionysus inspired the women to ecstatic frenzy; they indulged in copious amounts of violence, bloodletting, sex and self-intoxication and mutilation. A group of Maenads also killed Orpheus. They were usually pictured as crowned with vine leaves. The Maenads were also known as Bassarids (or Bacchae or Bacchantes) in Roman mythology, after the penchant for the equivalent Roman god, Bacchus.
Achilles was the greatest and the central character of Homer's Iliad. He was the son of Peleus, king of the Myrmidons in Phthia (southeast Thessaly), and the sea nymph Thetis. Zeus and Poseidon had forced her for her hand until Prometheus the fire bringer revealed she would bear a son greater than his father, whence they wisely chose to give her to someone else. According to legend, Thetis had tried to make Achilles invincible by dipping him in the river Styx, but forgot to wet the heel she held him by, leaving him vulnerable so he could be killed by a blow to that heel.
Achilles is one of the only two people described as "god-like" in the Iliad. In the Trojan War Achilles has killed many of the Trojans. He also defeated Memnon of Ethiopia, Cycnus of Colonae and the Amazonian warrior Penthesilia (with whom Achilles also had an affair in some versions). But as predicted by Hector with his dying breath, Achilles was thereafter killed by Paris — either by an arrow to the heel, or in an older version by a knife to the back while visiting Polyxena, a Trojan princess.
Zeus or Dios ("divine king") is the leader of the gods and god of the sky and thunder in Greek mythology. Zeus played a huge role in the Olympic pantheon. He fathered many of the heroes and heroines (see list at bottom of article) and was featured in many of their stories. Zeus is the continuation of Dyeus, the supreme god in Indo-European religion, also continued as Vedic Dyaus Pitar (cf. Jupiter), and as Tyr in Germanic and Norse mythology. In addition to his Indo-European inheritance, the classical Zeus also derives certain iconographic traits from the cultures of the ancient Near East,. Zeus was equivalent to the Roman god Jupiter (from Jovis Pater or "Father Jove") and associated in the syncretic classical imagination with various other deities, such as the Egyptian Ammon and the Etruscan Tinia. He (along with Dionysus) absorbed the role of the chief Phrygian god Sabazios in the syncretic deity known in Rome as Sabazius.
Eros was the god responsible for lust, love, and sex; he was also worshipped as a fertility deity. His name is the root of words such as erotic. His Roman equivalent was Cupid, "desire", also known as Amor, "love". He was often associated with Aphrodite. He was like Dionysus, sometimes referred to as Eleutherios, "the liberator".
Athena, is the armed warrior goddess in Greek mythology. She is the goddess of wisdom, strategy, and war associated by the Etruscans with their goddess Menrva, and later by the Romans as Minerva. She is attended by an owl, wore a goatskin breastplate called the Aegis given to her by her father and is accompanied by the goddess of victory, Nike. Athena is also a goddess associated with mentoring heroes. Pallas is sometimes thought to be her father, hence the epithet Pallas Athena. Athena was already a goddess in the Aegean before the coming of the Greeks. A-ta-na-po-ti-ni-ja (Mistress Athena) is referred to in the Knossos
Ashurnasirpal II ruled 883-859 BC. He started military campaigns to build the Assyrian empire. Shalmaneser III, a son of Ashurnasirpal II, came to the throne in 858 BC.
Shalmaneser III ruled from 858 to 824 BC. He carried out a series of military campaigns which greatly extended Assyrian territory.
In 853 BC he fought the Battle of Qarqar against "The Kings of the Coast", including Syria, Lebanon, and Ahab of Israel (1 Kings 22)
To commemorate his campaigns he caused stelae to be erected at various places in his empire, extolling his victories.
One such stela, known as the Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser, commemorates an occasion (probably in 841 BC, the year after Shalmanezer's defeat of Hazael of Damascus - 2 Kings chapters 9-10) when Jehu of Israel paid tribute, and knelt on the ground in front of Shalmaneser.
The period following the Shalmaneser's death was disturbed by revolts, palace revolutions, civil wars and a series of weaker kings. Shamshi-Adad V, ruled 824-811 BC, was a son of Shalmaneser III Adad-nirari III, ruled 811-783 BC, was a son of Shamshi-Adad and Queen Shammuramat. His mother acted as Regent for the first five years of his reign.
In 796 BC he led a campaign and besieged Ben-Hadad III of Damascus. Shalmaneser IV, ruled 783-773 BC, was a son of Adad-nirari III Ashur-dan III, ruled 773-755, was a son of Adad-nirari III, and a brother of Shalmaneser IV. During his reign the kingdom was weakened by several epidemics of Plague. Ashur-nirari V, ruled 755-745 BC, was another son of Adad-nirari III and a brother of Shalmaneser IV. His reign ended when Tiglath-Pileser III seized the throne.
Tiglath-Pileser III, ruled 745-727 BC. He may have been a son or brother of Ashur-nirari V, but it is more likely that he was a military commander who usurped the throne.
He was called "Pul" by the Israelites. He extended his control as far as the Sinai, extorting tribute from Menahem of Israel (Assyrian records show payments by Menahem in 740 and 738 BC) (2 Kings 15:19). However, in 734 BC Israel joined a rebellion with Tyre and Damascus. The rebellion was crushed in 732 BC.
Tiglath-Pileser deported the population of Galilee and Gilead, and turned the region into an Assrian province (2 Kings 15:29, 1 Chron. 5:26). He appointed Hosea as a vassal king of the northern kingdom of Israel.
Ahaz of Judah also became a vassal of Tiglath-Pileser (2 Kings 16:5-10, 17-18). Ahaz is mentioned in Assyrian records dated to 734 BC; he attended Tiglath-Pileser's court in Damascus in 732 BC. (2 Kings 16:10)
Tiglath-Pileser built a royal palace at Calah (also called Nimrud).
Shalmaneser V, son of Tiglath-Pileser III, ruled 727-722 BC. In 726 BC Hosea of Israel paid tribute to him (2 Kings 17:3), but rebelled and was imprisoned in 724 BC.
In 722 BC, shortly before he died (maybe due to court intrigues), Shalmaneser captured Samaria. (2 Kings 17:6; also recorded in the Babylonian Chronicle).
The sudden death of Shalmaneser V led to revolts and rebellions throughout the Assyrina Empire, lasting about two years.
Sargon II, commander of the army (Turtanu, called in Hebrew "Tartan"), and probably a brother of Shalmaneser V, ruled 722-705 BC. He reconquered Samaria in 720 BC, sent the population of the region into exile, and re-populated the region with a mixture of other conquered peoples. (2 Kings 17:6)
Most of Sargon II's reign was spent in fighting to maintain his control of the Empire.
In 710 BC he attacked Babylonia, and took Babylon in 707 BC.
In 706 BC he completed building his new capital city Dur-Sharrukin, ("Sargon-Town", now Khorsabad), but it only lasted a year, as Sargon II died in battle the next year, and his successors abandoned the city.
Sennacherib, a son of Sargon II, ruled 705-681 BC. The first two years of his reign were spent in regaining Assyrian control of the southern parts of the Empire.
In 701 BC he turned to the western regions, regained Samaria and much of Judah, including the city of Lachish. Sennacherib besieged Jerusalem, but the city had its own water-supply, thanks to the foresight of King Hezekiah, who had had a tunnel built or enlarged to carry the waters of the Siloam Spring underground beneath the city walls. Hezekiah eventually paid a heavy tribute to Sennacherib. (2 Kings, chapters 18-20. 2 Chron. 32:3-4)
Sennacherib moved his capital to Nineveh.
After pacifying the West, Sennacherib turned to Babylon again. After military compaigns against Babylonia in 700 BC, 694-693 BC, and 691-689 BC, Sennacherib decided to destroy Babylon. He broke the canals outside the city, causing a flood which turned the region into a swamp so that the inhabitants had to flee.
Sennacherib appointed his son Esarhaddon as his heir. As a result, two of his other sons, Adramelech and Sarezer, murdered Sennacherib and started a palace revolt (2 Kings 19:37). They were unsuccessful, and Esarhaddon became king.
Esarhaddon, ruled 681-669 BC, was a son of Sennacherib. He re-built Babylon, and made it the capital of his Empire.
He started to expand his empire eastwards, captured Sidon in 677 BC, and went on to take King Manasseh of Judah as a priconer to Babylon (2 Chron. 33:110).
In 671 BC he defeated Pharaoh Tirhhakah and conquered Egypt. However, Egypt was rebellious, and in 669 BC Esarhaddon was leading another Egyptian campaign when he became ill and died.
The Empire was divided between two of Esarhaddon's sons - Shamah-shuma-ukin became King of Babylon, and Ashurbanipal became king of Assyria.
Ashurbanipal, ruled 669-627 BC, was a son of Esarhaddon. Egypt was still hard to control, so in 664 BC Ashurbanipal made Psammetichus a client king of Egypt. However, in 652 BC Ashubanipal's older brother Shamah-shuma-ukin headed a rebellion in Babylon, and Psammetichus took the opportunity to rebel also and make Egypt independent.
In 648 BC Ashurbanipal defeated his brother, who set fire to the palace at Babylon and died in the flames.
In 646 and 640 BC Ashurbanipal campaigned against Elam and destroyed the city of Susa.
Ashur-etil-ilani became king of Assyria when Ashurbanoipal died in 627 BC, and the empire began to crumble. Constant fighting had depleted the population and the treasury, and there were insufficient soldiers to keep the conquered peoples subjugated; also, the empire came under attack by Scythians and Medes in the East, and Cimmerians in the West
The king of Babylon, Nabopolassar, and Cyaxares the Mede joined with the Scythians and Cimmerians, rose against Assyria, and destroyed Ninevah in 612 BC.
Ashur-uballit II, one of the surviving Assyrian generals, helped by the Egyptian Pharaoh Necho II, set himself up as King of Assyria, with a court at Harran, until the Babylonians defeated him in battle in 609 BC.
Assyria ceased to exist as an independent nation, and became part of the Babylonian Empire, then went under Achaemenid Persian control, followed by Alexander the Great, then the Seleucid dynasty.
There were giants in the earth in those days: and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. GENESIS 6:4 "fallen ones." - fell (naflu) from the world, and filled the world with abortions (nephilim) through their immorality. Numbers 13:33. "We saw the Nephilim there..." "We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim)" (N.I.V.).
super- human strength of the Nephilim exists, and this is not in the least surprising, knowing that they were "fathered" by angels. Angels as already stated, do "excel in strength" (Psalm 103:20). They are greater "in power and might" than men of earth (2 Peter 2:1 1).
often wondered at the severe an extreme measures that God asked Joshua to put into effect once he entered the land of Canaan. God commanded him to "utterly destroy them." We have found it difficult to reconcile this with the character of God. One can only surmise that God had a special reason to issue such a command. Could it be that God knew the heritage of these NephiliM
in Genesis 6, God orders the complete extermination of the inhabitants of Canaan.
"But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee" (Deuteronomy 20:17).
the Anakim, descended from Anak (Numbers 13:28)
the Rephaim, descended from Rapha
the Zamzummims, the Emims, the Avims, etc.
"And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight." (Numbers 13:33).
Deuteronomy 3:11 describes one of these giants in more detail:
"For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants: behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? Nine cubits was the length thereof and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man."
One carried a spear whose staff was "like a weaver's beam" (II Samuel 21:19). Goliath wore a coat of armor that weighed 196 pounds, and he was said to be about nine feet tall.
The word "demon" in Greek (daimon) comes from the root meaning "knowledge" or "intelligence."
The Book of Isaiah says that the Nephilim and their descendants will not participate in a resurrection as is the portion of ordinary mortals. Isaiah 26:14 reads: "They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise." The original Hebrew word translated "deceased" here is the word "Rephaim." It would have saved a lot of misinterpretation if the translators had left the word as it was in the original. The verse actually reads: "Dead, they shall not live; Rephaim, they shall not rise." The Rephaim are generally understood to be one of the branches of the Nephilim, and God’s Word makes it clear that they are to partake in no resurrection. But with humans it is different: all humans will be resurrected either to life or to damnation (John 5:28-29).
THE ULTIMATE SIN God made man in His own image, the highest of all His earthly creations. While God said that everything He made was good, He considered man very good. Man had been made for fellowship with GodHimself, but he soon turned his back upon his Maker and worshipped the creature more than the Creator. Before many generations, the human race was being polluted by this abominable union with demons. It seemed that Hell and Earth were in league together against the God of Heaven. God’s righteous anger was such that He regretted having made man.
"And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the Lord that he had made man. ..."(Genesis 6:5-6)
It was specifically because of this ultimate sin that God brought about a deluge of such magnitude that man and beast were drowned from the face of the Earth. In the words of old Joseph Hall:
"The world was so grown foul with sin, that God saw it was time to wash it with a flood: and so close did wickedness cleave to the authors of it, that when they were washed to nothing, yet it would not wash off, yea, so deep did it stick in the very grain of the earth, that God saw it meet to let it soak long under the waters."
WAS NOAH IMMUNE?
Why Noah and his immediate family were the only ones immune from this great judgment is significant. Genesis 6:9 says, "Noah was a just man." He stood out as an example of righteousness and Godliness in a perverse age. Like Enoch before him, Noah also "walked with God." But there was another reason why Noah was spared, one that seems to have escaped most commentators. Genesis 6:9 says that Noah was "perfect in his generation." Does this mean moral and spiritual perfection? Hardly. Genesis 9:20-23 disproves any such perfection. What, then, does the Bible mean by calling him "perfect"?
The Hebrew word is "tamiym" and comes from the root word "taman." This means "without blemish" as in Exodus 12:5, 29:1, Leviticus 1:3. Just as the sacrificial lamb had to be without any physical blemish, so Noah’s perfection. In its primary meaning, it refers not to any moral or spiritual quality, but to physical purity. Noah was uncontaminated by the alien invaders.
He alone had preserved their pedigree and kept it pure, in spite of prevailing corruption brought about by the fallen angels. (15)
And again: Noah’s bloodline had remained free of genetic contamination. (16)
This implies, of course, that all the other families on Earth had been contaminated by the Nephilim. It also proves that the assault of Satan on the human race had been far more extensive than realized. It is no wonder that God pronounced such a universal fiat of judgment.
As for the fallen angels who participated in the abomination, God put them in custody "in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day" (Jude 6). This is sometimes interpreted as Tartarus or the "nether realms" (2 Peter 2:4). This would also explain why some fallen angels are in custody and why others are free to roam the heavens and torment mankind.
Such a drastic punishment, both for men and angels, presupposed a drastic sin, something infinitely more evil and more sinister than mixed marriages. It was nothing less than the demonic realm attempting to pervert the human world. By genetic control and the production of hybrids, Satan was out to rob God of the people He had made for Himself.
If Satan had succeeded in corrupting the human race, he would have hindered the coming of the perfect Son of God, the promised "seed of the woman," who would defeat Satan and restore man’s dominion (Genesis 3:15). If Satan had by any means prevented that birth, he would obviously have averted his own doom. Satan did succeed to a large extent. It was for this reason that God drowned mankind in the Deluge.
ARE ANGELS SEXLESS?
Interpreting the "sons of God" as fallen angels, the question immediately arises--do angels marry? In Matthew 22:30, Jesus said angels neither marry nor are given in marriage. This seems a clear and emphatic negative. However, it does not preclude the possibility of such a thing happening--obviously contrary to the will of God. And it does not preclude fallen angels, who had rebelled against God already, from cohabiting with women of Earth, as the Scriptures state.
Some interpret the words of Jesus as meaning that angels do not marry among themselves. Is it because they are all male? Or is it because celestial beings are deathless and thus need no offspring. Only terrestrial beings need to find immortality in their children. (17) But if they do not need to marry and procreate, is it still possible that they could engage in sexual acts? If not among themselves then with human spouses? Jude seems quite explicit on the matter: the angels left their own habitation, and gave themselves over to fornication, going after strange flesh. In other words, they were capable of performing human functions--eating, drinking, walking, talking, even sexual activity and fathering children.
The fact that angels do not marry does not in itself prove they are sexless. Throughout the Bible, angels are referred to only as men. Finis Drake writes:
"It is logical to say...that the female was created specifically for the human race in order that it could be kept in existence; and that all angels were created males, in as much as their kind is kept in existence without the reproduction process. Angels were created innumerable to start with (Hebrews 12:22) whereas, the human multitudes began with one pair." (18)
Even in the next world, when the saints will dwell in their resurrection body and live forever, it does not imply that they will be sexless. The Bible teaches that everyone will have his own body in the resurrection (1 Corinthians 15:35-38). No suggestion is made that they will be unsexed. Furthermore, Christ remained a man after His resurrection.
