The Earth before the Flood: Disappeared continents and civilizations

According to Sumerian myth "the Mount of heavens" and Akkadian-Babylonian poem "When above", population of the Earth constantly increased and, eventually, the moment had come when minor "new" serpentine gods (of semiaquatic-semiterrestrial mode of life) led by Enki had rebelled against the senior "new" serpentine gods led by Tiamat. Enki killed Apsu and had chained Mummu, and he had constructed a big house on the brink of ocean in which he began to live together with the wife Damkina.
There is a similar motive in Japanese legends. Landed on the earth Susanoo "cleaned" it from monsters one of which was eight-headed and eight-tailed red-eyed dragon.
Approximately at the same time (second half or, more likely, the end of Oligocene) daityas, danavas and their descendants from mixed marriages had populated huge spaces of the Earth, and she could not bear "any more burden of daityas and danavas trampled down it" and "had failed in entrails of Patala" (terminology of Indian legends). It was happened on Oligocene and Miocene boundary (24 million years ago) and, according my hypothesis voiced in the book " Battles of ancient gods" it could be connected with impingement of some heavenly body with the Earth.
More possibly and Sumerian and Japanese myths in a greater degree proves to be true that on Oligocene and Miocene boundary there was the first (?) world war after the "Golden Age" end. One belligerent party was of sea snakemen - incomers led by Enki/Susanoo, another party - hordes of sea monsters led by Tiamat and Kingu, and probably, in the union with overland monsters. For overthrow of the senior generation of gods the young serpentine gods had united with adityas or daityas with danavas and, possibly, old snakemen come from the Mesozoic era, having passed laws of old gods of unity of person with the nature and of followings to a natural order of things, and they had put at the head of the army aditya or daitya Marduk. Tiamat and hordes of sea monsters-dragons were overthrown and the land "was bridged" again to the sky and rains, hailstones and snow began to fill.

In description of bright-red dragon of Munhush which became helper of Marduk after defeat of Kingu and Tiamat we can see shapes of old snakemen. He combined strains of snake, eagle, lion and scorpion. One more example of them - eight-headed and eight-tailed red-eyed dragon overthrown by Susanoo.

In the poem "When above" we can find mention that at the moment of catastrophe terrestrial atmosphere was two-layer ( Rigveda, Old Testament, and researches of J. Dillow say the same) and "headwaters" ranged over an air cover. It is said that Marduk had repaired it: "had covered headwaters by split body of Tiamat as if by wall", but it sprung a leak. And, apparently, for the first time from the beginning of Cenozoic era streams of rains, hailstones and snow had fallen upon the Earth which were absent before.
It is very important part of the legend.
First, it is well co-ordinated with my conclusions in the book "Battles of ancient gods" that fast and irreversible destruction of an upper water cover had begun on an Oligocene and Miocene boundary.
Secondly, as I already spoke, the water stratum in atmosphere protected surface of the Earth from penetration of ultra-violet beams and, apparently, was major factor of longevity, and, may be, immortality. So the Oligocene-Miocene boundary quite could mark of changing of Satya-Yuga to Treta-Yuga (terminology of Indian legends) when lifetime of reasonable inhabitants was reduced from 100 thousand years upto 10 thousand years.

A war (and more correct, a train of wars) on an Oligocene-Miocene boundary is mentioned in Egyptian myths. Apparently, widespread story about fight of the light forces connected with solar boat of Ra, Wadjet and Horus (Gorus), with dragon Apop and hordes of crocodiles, snakes and hippopotamuses lived underground. Victory in all these fights had gained by Horus which, most likely, was the leader of daityas or danavas. It is difficult to say, Horus and Marduk were the same person, or there were two independent leaders lived at the same time, but at reference of Horus to daityas or danavas it is represented rather probable that Marduk was daitya or danava too. And it is quite possible that Marduk, Ra and Horus were of black skin.
The union of Ra and Horus with Hathor, Tefnut, Sehmet, Maat, Astarta (which I call apsaras) in struggle against "snakes and other evil spirits" described in Egyptian myths and uncompromising struggle of other goddesses-apsaras (Bastet, Mafdet, Mehit, Menhet, Ment and Astarta) and gods (Onuris) with snakes (dragons) allow to assume that in the end of Oligocene epoch former inhabitants of Hyperborea (Svarga, Jambudvipa) gandharvas and apsaras (they are also alate Annunaks) had located in separate areas of globe (Egypt, Mesopotamia). They struggled with snakemen (it is not always clear from legends which of them) and were important strategic partners of daityas and danavases. Sumerian myths allow to assume that the majority of them were of black skin.
Possibly, between daityas, danavas, gandharvas, apsaras and "the new" snakemens of semiaquatic-semiterrestrial life (Enki, Osiris, Isida, Nommo and their followers), there was existed not too strong union which at any moment could break up and outgrow in quarrel. It is confirmed in Sumerian myth about abduction by Inanna of destiny tables from Enki and direction of seven sea monsters in a pursuit of her by great god Enki.
Humanoid and reptile gods, apparently, lived in different terrains (in the different countries?). The territorial device of Ancient Egypt proves it. The Lower Egypt long time was under control of snakemen with obviously expressed sea orientation, and the Upper Egypt was ancestral land of àpsaras. Ra and Horus, apparently, alternately owned all Egypt or its upper part, however, it is difficult to perceive on the basis of the Egyptian myths which terrain was controlled by them during this or that time.
Sumerian and Akkadian-Babylonian myths tell approximately about the same, according to which "black-headed" ( danavas - kalakeyas?) lived in Uruk, Nippur, Kishe and other cities mentioned in the epos, and sea people lived in the city of Eridu under control of Enki.

Read continuation " The Earth in early Miocene - the strange world of light and dark halfs"

© A. Koltypin, 2010
© P. Oleksenko, 2011 (translation)

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