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"Everything that is on earth will lose its life." When Noah was already 600 years old, and three sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, grew up in his family, a terrible disaster happened on earth.

By that time there were already a lot of people, and they behaved badly: they deceived, robbed, killed each other. Only Noah and his family lived honestly and were not guilty of anything before God. And God looked and looked at the bad deeds of people and repented that he had created them. He decided to destroy the entire human race, sparing only Noah and his family. The rest of the living creatures on land should have perished.

God said to Noah, “Make yourself an ark [something like a ship, but without masts] gopher wood [probably cedar or cypress]; you shall make compartments in the ark, and cover it with pitch inside and outside. And make it like this: the length of the ark is three hundred cubits [elbow - about 50 centimeters] its breadth fifty cubits and its height thirty cubits. And thou shalt make a hole in the ark, and bring it down to a cubit at the top, and make a door in the ark at its side; arrange in it a lower, second, and third dwelling. And behold, I will bring a flood of waters on the earth to destroy all flesh that has the spirit of life in it. [i.e. every living being]. Everything on earth will lose its life. But with you I will make a covenant [make an alliance] and you will enter the ark, and your sons, and your wife, and your sons' wives with you. Also bring into the ark of all animals and of all flesh a pair, so that they remain alive with you: male and female let them be.

Of the birds according to their kind, and of the cattle according to their kind, of every creeping thing on the earth according to their kind, of every pair they will come in to you, that they may live.

But you take to yourself all the food that they eat, and gather for yourself; and it will be food for you and for them.”

"Of the inhabitants of the earth, only those who were in the ark survived." Noah built the ark, and seven days before the flood began, God ordered him to begin loading. When the ark was filled with food and living creatures, Noah with his wife and his sons with their wives entered there, and God tightly closed the door behind them.

Then immediately “the windows of heaven were opened” and streams of water gushed out of them onto the earth. The rain continued for forty days and nights. The ark floated to the surface, and the water rose higher and higher until it covered the tops of the highest mountains for fifteen cubits. Of the inhabitants of the earth, only those who were in the ark survived.

The water continued to rise for one hundred and fifty days (except for the “windows in the sky”, God opened all the water sources on earth) and only then began to wane. Five months after the beginning of the flood, the ark stopped on Mount Ararat. Another forty days passed, and Noah decided to open the window and release the raven. But he did not even fly far away, but began to circle around the ark, from time to time sitting down on it: only an endless expanse of water was visible around. Then Noah released the dove, but the dove returned to the window.

Another seven days passed. Noah released the dove again. He returned only in the evening, holding a fresh leaf of an olive tree in his beak. So Noah knew that the waters had come down from the earth. But out of caution, he waited another seven days, again released the dove, which this time did not return. Then Noah released all the inhabitants of the ark, and he himself built an altar of stones on the top of the mountain and offered a sacrifice to God. God smelled the pleasant smell of the burning sacrifice and told himself that he would no longer send a flood to the earth to destroy mankind. As a sign that He was establishing a covenant (makes an alliance) with Noah and his descendants, God placed a rainbow between the cloud and the earth and told Noah that now the rainbow would remind every time of the end of the rain and that after the flood an alliance was made between God and all living beings.

Noah and his sons began to manage the deserted land. They learned how to grow grapes and make wine. One day in the summer heat, Noah drank wine and fell asleep naked in his tent. Ham saw it, younger son. Such a sight seemed very funny to him, and he told the brothers about it. But Shem and Japheth took the clothes, turned away, entered the tent and threw it over the sleeping father. When Noah woke up and learned of what had happened, he cursed Ham and his son Canaan and predicted that their descendants would be slaves to the descendants of Shem.

Offspring of Noah. Noah lived another 350 years after the flood and died when he was 950 years old. His descendants gradually populated the whole earth. Japheth became the ancestor of the northern peoples, the peoples of Africa descended from Ham, and the Semites who lived in Asia descended from Shem. One of the Semitic peoples were the Jews, and then the Bible talks mainly about them.

The great flood in the myths of different peoples.

The Flood - a terrible catastrophe described in many religions and mythologies - a large-scale flood that was the punishment of God or gods for human sins.
Ethnologists have discovered among the peoples of Europe, Asia, America and Australia more than two hundred legends about the flood, the plots of which are strikingly similar in detail and differ little from the biblical version.
Archpriest Rostislav Snigirev in his book "Biblical Archeology" highlights three key points.
Firstly, various deities are a harbinger of the flood, commanding their chosen ones to build a large ship.
Secondly, two people appear among the survivors - a man and a woman, sometimes accompanied by children.
Thirdly, the survivors land on the top of the mountain. four
The well-known ethnographer and religious scholar James Fraser in his works (for example, "Folklore in the Old Testament", 1923) directly indicates that the biblical flood story is not unique, it is contained in the ancient myths of many peoples. Based on this, he concludes: the Christian point of view is that the content of such information in myths is the clearest proof of the truth of Scripture, since the legends of the flood of various peoples echo each other.
Reconstructions of the absolute age of the Flood also give an approximately similar data set from 8 to 10 thousand years ago.
It is known from paleogeographic data that the last ice sheet (the Laurentian ice sheet in North America) in the Northern Hemisphere disappeared from 8 to 10 thousand years ago.

From this arose the Ryan-Pitman hypothesis (William Ryan, Walter Pitman, University of Columbia) that the story of the flood is a kind of reflection global process rise in the level of the world's oceans.
It has been established (based on the analysis of flooded coastlines and the distribution of sedimentary rock layers) that in this time the sea level rose by tens of meters from -50 to 0 meters (in modern system absolute coordinates), one of the consequences of which was the formation of the Bosporus Strait and an increase in the area of ​​the Black Sea by almost 1.5 times.
So the effect of such flooding of large coastal areas certainly played a role in the emergence and global spread of the flood story.
Another side of the issue was the change in the basis of river erosion and the corresponding sharp restructuring of all river valleys on Earth (naturally for the rivers of the World Ocean basin).
This restructuring consisted in the widespread flooding of river floodplains and river terraces adjacent to the valley.
In theory, the entire space from the river's edge to the melting of ice sheets and up the slopes of the river valley to a height of 50 meters should have been flooded by the river and covered with its sediments. Naturally, such areas adjacent to the rivers were a place of increased concentration of people, and, observing such processes, a person could draw certain conclusions (create a story about the flood).
Receiving information about the "flood" on the coasts of the seas and data about the "flood" along all the rivers of the Earth, any reasonable person (and even more so a group) will create a myth about the universality of the observed phenomenon.
Creationists (i.e. researchers who view the planet Earth, as well as the world in general, as intentionally created by some super-being or deity) defend the real historicity of the Great Flood, based on various studies, although most modern archaeologists and geologists do not share this point of view.
Many researchers tried to find the remains of the ark in the area of ​​Mount Ararat - where, according to the Bible, it landed on the shore after the flood.
According to Ron Wyatt, an anesthesiologist and amateur archaeologist, his research in these places proved the existence of the ark, and, therefore, the reality of the Flood.
In 1957 in the USA in one of the magazines were published interesting photos Ararat Mountains (approximately 20 miles from Mount Ararat) taken from aircraft.
The captain of the Turkish army, Lihan Durupinar, found an interesting formation in the photographs. After reading this article, Ron Wyatt decided to study this phenomenon and came to the conclusion that this formation is nothing more than Noah's Ark.

But not all professional historians take this statement seriously.
The fact that the Earth could be completely covered with water within forty days to wait, for many it causes a certain skepticism and, admittedly, quite justified. As they say, this really could not be.
But those who carefully read the Bible know that the phenomenon that is commonly called the Flood lasted exactly one year. The pouring rain was only a prelude to a global natural cataclysm, in which "all the sources of the great abyss opened up."
If we translate the biblical story of the flood into modern language, then we can talk about a powerful volcanic eruption, as a result of which groundwater poured through faults in the earth's crust to the surface of the Earth.
According to scientists, the energy of the volcanic eruption was so great that the height of rock ejections reached twenty kilometers, and the ash that rose into the upper atmosphere caused active condensation of the atmospheric layers, which led to such a long rain.
Escaped groundwater, coupled with heavy rain, covered the Earth in a matter of days.

The water level also rose after the cessation of rain for five months.
Among the general chaos caused by the flood, there was only one island of safety - this drifting in the raging elements, the ark built by Noah, whom God warned about the impending punishment for corrupt mankind.
The dimensions of the ark are striking: length - 150 meters, width - 25 and height - 15 (according to other sources - 135, 23 and 14 m. 4). The dimensions of this building are impressive even by modern standards.
A three-deck ship made of tightly fitted, tarred boards resembled modern all-metal ships. The length-to-width ratio of 6 to 1 minimized rolling in any wave and made the ark (in modern Russian this word means “box” or “casket”) practically unsinkable.
The dimensions of the ark involuntarily suggest how, with the help of only three sons, Noah managed to build such a huge structure?
But it turns out that this is not surprising, because the construction of the ship lasted a hundred years. For a hundred years, Noah worked tirelessly, and all this time he warned his fellow tribesmen about the impending disaster. But no one believed him.
If we consider that the average life expectancy of people living before the Flood was 900 years, then there is nothing surprising in the figure of one hundred years. Such a long life expectancy is due to the peculiarity of the antediluvian climate.
The Bible says that before the Flood, "The Lord God did not send rain on the earth... but a vapor rose up from the earth and watered the whole face of the earth."
From these and other biblical texts it follows that the globe was surrounded by a layer of water vapor on top of the air layer, the presence of which led to the existence of a number of climatic conditions different from today.
Sunlight, passing through a layer of water vapor in the upper atmosphere, was evenly scattered in different directions, reaching all latitudes with the same intensity.
Thanks to a kind of water vapor screen, the heat radiated from the Earth's surface was retained inside the Earth's atmosphere.
This created an environment with a greenhouse effect throughout the territory.
the globe from pole to pole.
The retention of harmful cosmic radiation and ultraviolet rays of the Sun by the atmospheric water shell significantly lengthened the lifespan of people and animals, which, in turn, explains the enormous size of the antediluvian dinosaurs, since it is known that reptiles grow all their lives.
After the water cover disappeared from the atmosphere as a result of 40 days of rain, the Earth turned out to be unprotected from harmful radiation, which led to an acceleration of the aging process of the inhabitants of the Earth.
After the flood, God put a limit on human life - 120 years. Other inhabitants of the Earth began to live less. So it's entirely possible that the alligators and dragons on the Indonesian island of Komodo are just undersized dinosaurs.
Other species of dinosaurs, unable to withstand the new extreme habitat conditions, gradually became extinct, remaining in the folklore memory of dragons and
mountain snakes. Some species, the living conditions of which have changed insignificantly, have survived to this day.
For example, in 1977, a dead plesiosaur about ten meters long and weighing about two tons got into the net of a Japanese fishing boat in the New Zealand area. The photo of this monster being unloaded from the ship went around the world.
Naturally, the plesiosaur could not live in a single copy. Surely there is a whole population of these, and quite possibly other creatures living in the depths of the sea.
The Flood explains many archaeological mysteries.
The school curriculum in zoology tells about the ice age, as a result of which mammoths became extinct. But at the same time, it remained unclear why, with gradual icing, their death caught them suddenly: some individuals died with under-chewed grass in their mouths.
Sudden death can only be explained by a sudden cold snap. This is exactly what happened in the early days of the flood.
The disappearance of the protective atmospheric cover led to an almost instantaneous cooling in the polar regions of the planet. AT permafrost,
which is nothing more than layers of instantly frozen water-mud mass, mammoths were frozen, saber-toothed tigers and other antediluvian fauna.
The same individuals taken by Noah on the ark and survived the flood, could not adapt to the new climatic conditions and gradually died out.

If we take into account that young individuals were taken on board, then they occupied only a third of the vessel, the rest was intended for eight crew members and food and feed supplies. However, there is an opinion that there was no particular need for large food reserves, despite the annual voyage. A sharp decrease in atmospheric pressure as a result of the destruction of the water-steam protective layer should have also led to a sharp decrease in the metabolic processes of living organisms.

Such drops lead to drowsiness, and it is quite possible that the animals were in a state close to anabiosis during the entire swimming, and care for them was minimal.
So there is nothing in the story of the Flood that cannot be explained in terms of natural laws.
After Noah descended to solid ground, the Lord promised that the flood would never happen again, Noah's descendants would be fruitful and repopulate the Earth, and all living things in the ark would multiply and serve as food for man. four
On October 18, 2001, the surveying satellite Quick Bird was launched from the US Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. His task is unusual - the search for Noah's ark.
Porcher Taylor, professor at the University of Richmond, says:
“On a sunny June day in 1947, an American reconnaissance aircraft was filming in the region of Mount Ararat, not far from which the Turkish, Iranian and Soviet borders converged. When the photographs were developed, an anomaly was discovered on the western plateau of the ridge - an oblong object, unusual for the shape of rocks, about 162 meters long.
At first they thought it was the fuselage crashed plane. Although such large aircraft were not produced then and are not being made even now.
I saw others in the photos Submarine- but where is she from? Then they remembered Noah, who, according to the Bible, built an ark, seated “each creature in pairs” on it, and after a 150-day voyage, moored precisely to Mount Ararat.
Version frightened the military. The reconnaissance aircraft missions were strictly classified.
In 1973, I was a cadet at the military academy at West Point and, among other things, studied space photography. We were talking about the CIA satellite, which was shooting in the area of ​​the Soviet-Turkish border from a height of 300 kilometers.
His cameras were accidentally turned on earlier than expected, and the slope of Ararat with fragments sticking out of the ice, similar to the skeleton of a huge ship, fell into their lenses.
That was the first time I heard that this might be the same ship of Noah.
The Cold War was on, access to secret photographs was out of the question. But I turned to history and found some interesting evidence for the Ark hypothesis.
The Babylonian historian Berossus mentioned the ship on Ararat in 275 BC.
The famous traveler Marco Polo wrote at the end of the 15th century that "the fragments of the ark are still visible on the top of Ararat."
In 1800, the American journalist Claudius Rich published a report by a Turkish traveler who reached Ararat and saw the remains of the ark.
In 1840, a Turkish expedition, which was equipped to explore the snowfalls on Ararat, discovered a giant frame made of almost black wood sticking out of the glacier.
Having penetrated inside the ship, the members of the expedition stated that it was designed to transport livestock and consisted of several compartments. four
In 1887, Prince of Persia and Archbishop John Joseph Nuri reported that he had found the remains of an ark on Ararat. Six years later, he tried to organize an expedition to dismantle the ark and take it to the World's Fair in Chicago. But he did not receive permission for this from the Turkish government.
“In order to obtain 100% proof of the existence of the ark, it is necessary to climb the Ararat mountains, dismantle the entire glacier, and only then it will be possible to make some more or less accurate interpretations,” says historian Oleg Mumrikov. - So far, we have only a few photographs taken during the First World War. In August 1916, Russian pilot Vladimir Rostovitsky, who was exploring the Turkish border, found himself over Ararat and observed a frozen lake in the eastern part of the peak, on the edge of which was the frame of a giant ship, partially submerged in ice.
Despite the war years, Nicholas II formed an expedition that returned with various descriptions the area under study and photographs.
But during the revolution, these data, unfortunately, were lost. After that, the ark was seen several times from aircraft during the Second World War. four
It turned out that the dimensions of the mysterious object on the side of the mountain coincide with biblical description of Noah's ark. According to the Bible, the ship was approximately 152 meters long, 25 meters wide and 15 meters high. What is possibly his remains is an object 162 meters long and 25 to 30 meters wide. It is impossible to measure the height, because it is stuck in the snow.
The quality of the photographs taken then is incomparably lower than today's possibilities. But some of the experts examined fragments of the transverse beams and the keel on them.
The design contains 90-degree angles, which indicates its man-made origin. We asked seven independent experts to examine the photographs and draw their own conclusions. As a result, four came to the conclusion that in front of them was a structure made by human hands.
Two believe that the photographs are just rocks, and one felt that new shooting is required to establish the truth.
On July 6, 1955, the French climber Fernand Navarra illegally climbed Ararat and found the remains of a giant ship on a mountainous spur. Radiocarbon analysis of fragments of the skeleton of the ship showed that the find is about five thousand years old.
In 1969, a scientific expedition organized by American archaeologists discovered several wooden fragments on Mount Ararat, approximately in the same place pointed out by Navarra. However, their analysis showed that the remains are no more than one and a half thousand years old.
The fact of finding an object in the form of a ship, which we call with full confidence an ark, indicates that it was preserved only due to the fact that it was covered with lava, which covered it, as it were, with a “cap of time”.
However, the mountain on which the ark is located is not volcanic.
Evidence shows that the lava that came out of the crater traveled many miles south towards present-day Iran.
Lava was thrown into the air so that it reached the top of a mountain range above the existing location of the ark.
The existence of this volcano is confirmed by a dilapidated stele found in 1984 on this ridge, which depicts a unique limestone ridge and a volcano next to it in the south.
Today, this volcano is destroyed, and it cannot be seen either from the top of the ridge, or from the position of the artist who painted the stele.
Lava has reached top of the ridge and began to flow to the foot of the mountain, covering the ark. The path of the lava is clearly traced by the frozen traces of the mud flow. Mudflows form when water emerges from slowly cooling lava.
When lava goes into the ground, a huge amount of water, captured along with it, sometimes begins to flow very rapidly. These streams are called mudflows.
The weight of the huge amount of lava that covered the ark caused the destruction of the two upper decks.
If so, then why didn't the ark burn down?
There are two possible answers.
First - the ark was very quickly covered with lava, which blocked the access of oxygen and ignition became impossible. But if we assume that the object was covered more slowly, then there are confirmed facts that lava does not always cause a fire.
But no matter which option you choose, the fact that if the ark was covered with lava does not mean at all that it should have burned down. The fact that the tiers were destroyed approximately evenly indicates that the ark was covered with lava very quickly, which cut off the supply of oxygen.
We have some samples that have burn marks, but to a very small extent.
The lava covered the ark and sealed it in an airtight "capsule".
Why is it visible now? Why isn't it covered in lava anymore?
Because lava loses its properties over time, collapses and after a while turns into soil. Soils that were formed due to the decay of lava, volcanic sediments and ash are very rich in potassium, lime and phosphates. Many areas of the world with well-developed agriculture owe this volcanic material.

The ark is located on a rather sloping mountainside. The stern of the ship is located at an altitude of about 6350 feet (about 1935.5m) above sea level, the bow of the ship is at an altitude of 6250 feet (about 1950m).
Over time, the lava began to collapse - it was no longer airtight, and therefore watertight. Winter in this area lasts several months and is accompanied by snow and low temperatures. In spring, the snow slowly melts and the water flows down to the foot of the mountains. This means that through the collapsed lava, water began to penetrate to the ark.
As the water slowly seeped through the preserved structures of the ark, it began to wash away the smallest particles of wood and metal. All this happened at the molecular level - the molecule was washed away by the molecule. But since the molecule washed out, after it there was a space of its own size, which was replaced by a molecule of another substance. This process is called petrification (petrification) or molecular replacement.
In order for an object to petrify, two conditions are always required: the first is the rapid burial of the object (the cessation of oxygen supply), and the second is the constant flow of water through it. If it is not an airtight object and is not washed by water, then it undergoes decay and is not preserved. Evolutionists will gladly tell you that the fossilization process takes millions of years, but it is not. If the petrification process is slower than the decay process, then the object will simply collapse.
As the water flowed down the side of the mountain and then soaked into the soil and reached the ark, the structural molecules upstream of the water were petrified along with the soil mineral molecules. Further, the water flowed through the middle part of the ship, so the ark began to petrify with the substances of its own structure in addition to the substances of the soil covering it.
This is exactly what should have happened if this object is an ark. Evidence found during excavations shows that this is exactly what happened.
A sample of deck timber recovered from a post-earthquake crack from the middle deck of the ship contained more than 13% iron - the iron of the metal joints of the structure above the middle section. Most of the molecules involved in petrification are naturally occurring earth and lava molecules. The first studies of these samples from the excavation site showed 51% silica content.
Magma is composed of molten quartz masses of various compositions. In fact, all fossilized objects contain a large amount of quartz (silica), due to the fact that it is contained in surrounding object soil.
But there is one substance that is not found in natural minerals. The composition of carbon in a substance shows the organic or inorganic origin of the object.
Therefore, in order to determine whether an object was an organic compound or not, a carbon content test is carried out.
An analysis of a sample of fossilized deck plating at the Galbrae Laboratory showed it to contain 0.0081% non organic carbon and 100 times more organic carbon - 0.7019%.
Any fossil object ever found: a tree branch, a bone, or a sea shell, will show the presence of carbon when analyzed. It is clear that the decking pattern was once living matter. Now the collapsed lava reveals to us petrified objects resembling wood and containing a large amount of iron and other metals.
In order for the petrified wood to have such a large amount of iron, the water that affects the petrification process must first pass through the iron object. The soil covering the ark does not contain as much iron. A special soil sample taken in the area for analysis showed the presence of 0.54% iron and 0.77% iron oxide.
If we assume that the petrified wood got its iron content from the iron found in the soil near the ark, then all the iron from the soil must have gone into that petrified wood only.
In other words, it's impossible.
The huge amount of metal contained in petrified wood could come from only one place - from the water passing through the metal contained in the structure of the ark - the metal that, as we now know, held the thousands of joints of the wooden structures of the ark together.
So, the ark was hidden for many, many years, and no one knew about its existence since it was covered with a lava flow, which accidentally (and most likely not accidentally) carried it down the mountain until it came across a huge ledge mountain breed.
In the late 1950s, a photograph taken from the air during military research showed this unusual outline of a ship on a mountainside in a mudflow ...
In 1978, an earthquake caused soil to crumble from a mysterious object. After that, the object took on a more recognizable form of a ship...
Many scientists believe that it is pointless to look for the ark on Mount Ararat. Their arguments are as follows: Ararat is a dormant volcano, as a result of which the Akhur gorge was formed in the first half of the 19th century. If there was an ark, its remains were completely destroyed in the cataclysm of 1840.
Some enthusiasts suggest looking for the ark on another Ararat, which is located in the vicinity of Gelendzhik. This rocky mountain, only 350 meters high, is located at the beginning of the Caucasus Range and theoretically can also be the end point of Noah's journey.
But the Turkish scientist Faruk Onzhel is sure that the ark is located on the slope of one of the mountain ranges in the province of Sanliurfa. four
Modern secular archeology admits that the biblical text may carry historical truth, and modern genetic research suggests that all of humanity is the descendants of a small group of people, perhaps. Noah and his family. Of course, there are a number of problems associated with dates, and these will be clarified in the course of further research.
But already now there is information that indirectly confirms the reality of the great flood in the past.
Turkish oceanographer Seda Okay is sure that the Black Sea was formed just as a result of such a cataclysm, when the melting of glaciers around the planet raised the level of the oceans. The waters of the Mediterranean Sea, having overcome the natural dam, which was the current Bosphorus, fell with monstrous power onto the East European Plain.
Okay has been actively studying the problem for five years, exploring, in particular, the bottom of the Bosporus at the entrance to the Black Sea. It was found that the water level in the Black Sea during the Ice Age was 110 meters lower than today.
Seda Okay: “Analyzing sedimentary rocks, we found that the waters of the Mediterranean Sea entered the Black Sea, which at one time was a closed basin, about seven to eight thousand years ago, and this happened as a result natural disaster, better known as the Flood." four
Is it so?
So, was there a Flood and did Noah's Ark really exist or not?
If it really existed, then could it survive to this day?
If it is preserved, how and where to find it?
If we find it, what will it mean to us?
Do we even need Noah's Ark?

Sources of information:
1. Wikipedia site
2. Site of the Newest Biblical Archaeological Discoveries
3. S. Golovin “The Flood. Myth, legend or reality?
4. A. Vartikov, E. Gordeeva "Memory of the Flood"

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The legend of a global catastrophe, when water flooded the entire Earth, is found in almost all ancient books of all world religions. When it was? And was it? Or is it some kind of allegory? Today we can unequivocally say that such an event took place on our planet in reality. It happened about 13,600 years ago, and the flood ended 11,600 years ago. That is, it lasted about 3 thousand years.

The Aryan Vedas report that Manu, the son of Vivasvat, settled with southern mountains. One day, when he was washing his hands, he came across a small fish in the water. She told him: "Save my life, and I will save you." "What are you saving me from?" Manu asked surprised. The fish said, “There will be a flood for all living beings. I will save you from him." “How can I keep you alive?” And she said: “We fish, while we are so small, are threatened with death from everywhere. One fish eats another. You first keep me in a jar, and when I grow out of it, dig a pond and keep me there; and when I grow even more, take me to the sea, for then death will no longer threaten me from nowhere. Manu did just that. She soon became huge fish jhasha with a horn on his head. Then she said: “In such and such a year there will be a flood. You make a ship and wait for me. And when the flood comes, board the ship and I will save you.”

And in the year indicated by the fish, Manu built a ship. When the flood came, he boarded the ship, and the fish swam to him. The seven holy sages, the sons of Angiras, boarded the ship with him. Obeying the command of the fish, Manu took with him the seeds of various plants. Manu, the seven sages and the fish were the only living beings in the watery chaos. Fierce winds rocked the ship. But the fish took Manu's ship to the Himalaya mountain. Then she said to Manu: "Go down gradually, following the fall of the water." Manu followed the advice of the fish. Since then, this place in the northern mountains has been called Manu's Descent.

And the flood washed away all living beings. One Manu remained to continue the human race on earth. When it was? Examining the texts of ancient books, we have already come to the unequivocal opinion that fish, birds, animals do not just appear in the texts. They usually indicate the astrological epoch. So what does the slave who saved the human race mean?
It is presented mainly according to the Vedic version ("Shatapatha Brahmana" book I). The seven wise men accompanying Manu and some of the details are borrowed from the myth of the flood in the book. III of the Mahabharata. The Mahabharata version differs significantly from the Vedic version; the fish that saved Manu appears in the epic as the incarnation of the god Brahma. In later versions, in the Puranas, the fish is one of the incarnations (“avatars”) of Vishnu.

Astrological era in astrology - the period during which the point spring equinox located in the same zodiac constellation. The change of astrological eras is associated with the phenomenon of the precession of the earth's axis. By the name of the zodiac constellation in which the vernal equinox is located, the astrological era is also called. It is assumed that we are currently living at the turn of the Age of Pisces and the Age of Aquarius. The idea of ​​the precessional year is closely intertwined with the idea of ​​the Great Year - Mahayuga. It is impossible to indicate the exact years of the change of astrological eras, since it is not clear exactly where the boundaries of the constellations pass.

Astrologers note that when astrological eras change, changes occur in religion and cults. So the dawn of Christianity correlates approximately with the beginning of the Pisces era, and at the approximate beginning of the Aries era, the formation in Russia and in Ancient Egypt of the cult of the god Amun, who has a ram's head, falls.
The astrological epoch affects the subtle psychological plan of humanity, determining its spiritual and moral values. An example is the change from the Age of Aries to the Age of Pisces, which occurred about two thousand years ago and approximately coincided with the birth of Jesus Christ.

Precession is used by astrologers as a time scale for marking the periods of evolution of our civilization. For the convenience of calculations in astrology, the full circle of movement of the vernal equinox along the ecliptic, the so-called Great Year of Plato (ind - Maha Yuga), is assumed to be 25920. There are 12 signs in the Zodiac, corresponding to 12 phases of the development of any phenomenon. Dividing 25920 by 12, we get 2160 years - the month of the Great Year. The Earth, according to astrologers, is currently experiencing the fifth era of its life, the Cenozoic, in the fourth (Quaternary) period (epoch) of which we live.
And what in a row, from the beginning of civilization, astrological era are we entering? The question to which there is no answer: from which stove to dance?
How many signs of the Zodiac our civilization has already passed is also unknown. If we count from the universal catastrophe 12-13 thousand years ago, which destroyed almost all of humanity and remained in the memory of generations in the form of the Flood, we get 6 signs, we are entering the seventh - there is still half the way ahead. But if we measure from the moment of the beginning of settlement on the planet, when, after a global volcanic eruption in the Mediterranean, the ash hid the sun for a long time? It was about 26-32 thousand years ago. Then the Neanderthals died, and our ancestors first emerged from the pre-glacial forests. Then it turns out that we are on the threshold of the end of the Great Year.
It is interesting that the astrological periodization of history coincides well with the historical and archaeological ones. Far from astrology, the historian L.N. Gumilyov calculated the lifetime of the ethnic group at about 2000 years.
After the Great Flood, the first era that we know something about is the era of Leo (9-11 thousand years BC), this is the end of the Stone Age. The man led the life of a hunter and fought with cave lions and a bear. AT rock art of those times, hunting scenes and images of a lion are frequent.
In the Zodiac, in the character of any sign, there are traits of a counter-sign located diametrically opposite, which, as it were, restrains the destructive essence of the main sign at the moment. In the way of life of a man of the era of Leo - a lone hunter - it is easy to notice the elements of the sign of Aquarius. The Age of the Lion was preceded by the Flood. The opposite "sign of the tamer" corresponds to the sign of Pisces (that is, the Christian era). In essence, this myth says that people were saved during the Great Flood by Jesus Christ. Surprisingly, these myths of India originated long before the coming of Jesus Christ!
This is how the astrological calendar of East and West correlate.

Dog - Lion
Boar - Cancer
Rat-Gemini (6 - 4 thousand years ago)
Ox-Taurus
Tiger - Aries
Cat-Pisces (0 - 2 thousand)
Dragon - Aquarius (modern)
Snake - Capricorn
Horse - Sagittarius
Goat - Scorpio
Monkey - Libra
Rooster - Virgo

But now let's compare with the research of modern scientists. A group from the Institute of Cell Biophysics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Pushchino, Moscow region, Russia) studied the glaciers of Greenland. In 2009, scientists Karnaukhov A.V., Karnaukhov V.N., published their models of glaciation in the Northern Hemisphere of the planet.

On fig. 5A shows a map of Eurasia during the last glaciation 14,670 years ago. The Arctic Ocean froze due to desalination. This happens periodically due to the interruption of the warm Atlantic currents.
This situation developed gradually. Initially, the entire West Siberian lowland was flooded with the flows of the Ob, Yenisei and Lena rivers, after which the waters of these Siberian rivers poured through the Turgai hollow into the Aral Sea and began flooding the Turan lowland, and then the Caspian and Black Seas with the adjacent Caspian, Black Sea and Danube lowlands.

People who by this time had practically settled all over the planet had no choice but to leave the water and gather on the hills. The whole history of mankind in the future paints only the descendants of people who escaped on the Central Russian and Valdai Uplands. Nothing is said anywhere about the fate of all other people who could be saved, for example, in the Pamirs.
Most likely, during the Flood, the Central Russian and Voldai Uplands were connected to the Ural Mountains by the Northern Ridge Ridge, which stretched along the watershed of the Volga and the Northern Dvina. It is surprising that Valdai is located at the western end of this ridge, where temples and large settlements were located in the Stone Age, and at the eastern end, in the Urals, archaeologists found the famous city of Arkaim and the valley of ancient cities adjacent to it. Arkaim is located strictly on the watershed.
Then, in the Urals, an ethnos of an epic people, called in the Aryan Vedas - asuras, could arise. When read back, it turns out - Rus. That is, white-skinned brunettes originated in the Urals (these are asuras), and white-skinned blondes in Valdai and the Central Russian Upland (these are Russ). Later, a special caste of priests emerged from the Asuras and Ruses, who settled in Valdai - they began to be called gods.
The annals mention another people - the Panii. It is mixed with the features of some real people. Indra, the most powerful of the 12 tribal leaders of Valdai (sons of Angiras), returned to the gods the sacred cows stolen by the Pani tribe, which lived in unknown lands, outside the world of gods and asuras. The panii drove the cows to a far country beyond the river Rasa, which flows at the end of the world, and hid them in a mountain cave.
The gods lived in the Valdai-Baltic area, the asuras controlled the entire Volga region to the very Ural mountains. So the Panii, after the end of the flood, migrated from behind the Urals. But where could they be saved? All Western Siberia was hidden by the waters of the Eurasian Ocean!
It seems that the Aryan Vedas tell of the salvation of two different groups during the Flood. In one myth about the escaped Manu, from whom the human race descended, two stories merged. In the myth where, together with Manu, 7 wise men are saved on a ship, he talks about people who have gathered on the Central Russian and Valdai Uplands. It is here that the traces of these seven sages (Rishis) are subsequently found. The constellation Ursa Major and Ursa Minor are named after them. In Russia they were called Bears. As the glaciers melted, they reached the Khibiny (in India, this name was distorted to Himalaya). From them came the first world civilization after the flood, Sarmatia.
But in another version of the Aryan Vedas, there were no wise men on the ship and Manu was saved alone. Most likely here we are talking about the people who escaped in the upper reaches of the Yenisei. Indeed, Manu followed the advice of the fish, the Vedas say, since then this place in the northern mountains, where he escaped, is called "Manu's Descent".
And now let's take a look at the map of the surroundings of Krasnoyarsk. Twenty-five versts above Krasnoyarsk, the beautiful taiga river Mana flows into the Yenisei on the right. Her fast and clear waters come from the Belogoria, in which the Man Lakes are located at a considerable height, giving out the Manu River to the north. Well, what did you convince?
Some researchers identify this people with the ancient tribe of the Polyans who lived in the Middle Don. Most likely, they returned to the original world after the end of the flood. During the World Migration of Peoples, they migrated to the West, where on this substrate, after assimilation with the Krivichi Slavs, Poles (pans) arose. In fact, according to this plot, one can restore the ancient history of the Polish people. The true homeland of the Poles is the outskirts of Krasnoyarsk. Here they lived in isolation from the rest of civilization for almost 3 thousand years.
On behalf of the legendary man Manu, the names originated:.

Mana - a taiga river in the Krasnoyarsk Territory;
. Mana is a small island in New Zealand;
. Mana - reserve magical powers.
. Semolina- coarse wheat groats.
. Manna from heaven - according to the Bible, the food that God fed Moses and his fellow tribesmen during the 40-year wanderings after the Exodus from Egypt.
. Manna - ancient state in present-day Iran.

If the flood approached gradually and people had time, for the most part, to leave on a hill, then it ended almost instantly.
The Bosporus Strait did not yet exist, but it was here that the water broke into the shallow Mediterranean lake. coast of Africa. The Eurasian Ocean flowed into the Atlantic. Vast territories of Eurasia were freed from water, and the level of the World Ocean rose sharply by a hundred meters, flooding vast coastal areas. If for the inhabitants of primitive Russia these events of the end of the flood passed without consequences. In the rest of the world, many people died, usually settled along the coast. Perhaps there were some closed enclaves of people in the mountains, which later became the basis for the birth of Negroids and Mongoloids.
The Caspian and Aral Seas separated probably only 2-3 thousand years ago.
The main catastrophic events associated with the end of the last ice age occurred between 12,000-11,640 years ago. References to the "great flood" are found in Sumerian and Greek myths and ancient Slavic traditions. Written sources - Vedic and Biblical texts - have the same basis.
Greek scientists wrote about the breakthrough of the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles. In the 3rd century BC, the physicist Straton from Lampsak wrote: "The Euxinian Pontus (Black Sea) had no outlet at Byzantium before, but the rivers flowing into Pontus broke through and opened a passage and water rushed to the Propontis (Sea of ​​Marmara) and the Hellespont (Dardanelles) ".
Another Greek scholar Plato, who reported with reference to Solon, who in turn referred to information received from Egyptian priests, that 11,600 years ago, as a result of a catastrophic flood, the Athenian army (probably in the Aegean Sea) and Atlantis, which was in the Atlantic Sea, perished. .

The date given above, 11,600 years ago, is made up of the lifetime of Solon (6th century BC), the information of the Egyptian priests that the catastrophe occurred 9,000 thousand years before this information was reported to Solon, and 2,000 years have passed since the beginning of a new era.
AT modern science the prevailing opinion is that Plato invented Atlantis to illustrate his ideal state structure and there is no objective evidence that Atlantis could exist. It is useful, however, to compare the date of the death of Plato's Atlantis (11,600 years ago) and the date of the catastrophically rapid climate change in the Northern Hemisphere (11,640 years ago), determined by the change in the thickness of the ice layers in Greenland, which scientists associate with the moment of rapid flooding of the Mediterranean shelf by the waters of the Eurasian Ocean after the breakthrough of the Bosporus and the Dardanelles. At this time, the level of the world's oceans rises sharply, the waters again flood the coastal areas and break into the lowlands at the site of today's White and Baltic Seas. This is how modern world geography arose.