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Antiquity of Vedic culture

The great deluge

Some things or events occurs, which gets embedded in the memory not of one person, but in any race or population and that information is passed from one generation to another and to become a legend. One such event was the great flood that got ingrained in the memory of mankind in a large scale as it appears in various legends, not only India but also from different parts of the world. The legend of the flood is a memory of humanity as it is in the legends of tribes and civilizations, past and present, of Celtic in northern India and also mentioned in the Old Testament. The mention of the great flood again in the Vedas

I call this global catastrophe because of the geographical distribution of this legend. To be present in the legends of many civilizations and tribes, this disaster must have been on a large scale. While the great people from all parts of the world has been affected significantly, to find mentioned in their legends. Such a massive global disaster has not occurred in the 4500 years before present. Myths and legends about the flood huge, huge, catastrophic global longer seems to be a fact rather than fiction. The oldest written record of the flooding comes from the Sumerian civilization of some 3rd 4th millennia BC. In the Sumerian city of Nippur (located about 200 km south of Baghdad on the banks of the Euphrates). It has an archaeological excavation on a clay tablet and the tablet heavy clay we've just seen a very pious man named Zisudra. He was appointed by the Almighty, so we told him to build a huge ship and save humanity from impending disaster. According to the tablet, the gods were angry at the human race and their crimes and they came to a conclusion that such an act of cleaning should be done. The good and pious people should be exempt from the trauma of such an act and therefore Zisudra was chosen by the gods to save humanity. Zisudra had a vision that such a catastrophic deluge coming and it should seed a huge boat and take him ahead of civilization, flora and fauna so that he could oversee the rebirth of Eden once again. In the Epic of Gilgamesh, the legend of the flood is no different from the Sumerian legend.

Utnapishtim, the only man to survive the deluge sent by the gods, had lived in the city of Shurrupak, where he was the god Ea. The city and the old gods and the goddess Ishtar caused the disorders among men and gods could not sleep for the noise. Then Enlil, god of earth, wind and air, said: "Let us lose the water in the world and drown everyone." The gods have agreed, but EA has warned of the disaster Utnpishtim imminent in a dream and told him to build a boat, and take on board two of every creature. For seven nights the storm raged, until the world was covered in water.

Finally, the boat ran aground on the summit of Mount NISIR. To check the water level, Utnapishtim released a dove and a swallow and a raven. When the raven did not return, Utnapishtim knew she had found a resting place and the waters were falling. Thank you in, it lit a fire to make a sacrifice to the gods. Enlil was furious when he smelled smoke, but wise intervened Ea, and Enlil makes Utnapishtim and his wife immortal, they are the ancestors of all mankind.

The legend of the flood is so similar to the Greeks. It goes something like this ---- From his throne in the high Olympos, Zeus looked down at the children of men, and saw the THA.