Re to Mani's comments on Vedas-Bible-Flood-Time

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Mani said:

>>I should point out that this timeline does not

>>exist in the Bible either. It was the invention

>>of one Bishop Ussher a few hundred years ago. He

>>did some interesting mathematics to arrive at

>>the 4004 B.C. figure.

 

This is true. There is no mention of date of creation

as such in the Bible. However, the Bible lists geneology from

Adam down to Jesus. If we assume that there are no lapses(everyone was

mentioned)

then the Math is quite obvious. Roughly 100 years per

3-4 generation.

 

Also, the Bible gives the life span of the descendants from Adam to Noah.

Thus, we can easily calculate the timing of flood with respect

to creation of Adam. This is roughly 1000 years from the

time of creation(Adam).

 

Mani also said:

>>Note that the flood myth is entirely absent in the

>>the oldest available strata of Indian religious

>>literature, the Rg Veda, Brahmanas, and Upanishads.

 

Purans talk about flood and Matsya Avataram, Manu rescuing

the life with the help of Matsya, akin to Noah of the Bible. Varaha avataram

is about the lord as Varaha

lifting the mother earth out of water.

 

Vedas also have some texts

which say that everything was covered by water (I don't recall the reference

now). Also, the Hiranya Garbha hymn mentions of high waters as briefly

described below:

Hiranyagarbha (the Golden Embryo) Hymn (Rig Veda 10.121)

This Hymn is semi-speculative and introduces two terms for the creator,

Hiranyagharba and Prajapati (the progenitor).

 

In the beginning the Golden Embryo arose. When the high waters came pregnant

with the embryo that is everything, bringing forth fire.

He arose from that as the one life's breath of the gods. Once He was born, He

was the lord of creation. He is the God to whom we should pay oblations to.

 

-K. Sreekrishna

I would like to add: All myths and folk lores

perhaps have some basis which we have not

figured out.

I am just trying to speculate a possible

synchrony here between Biblical age

and age of Kali Yuga.