Description of the catastrophe that led to the change of the old and new worlds and the emergence of modern humanity, in the legends of different peoples: the creation of a new world and new people - Earth before the flood: disappeared continents and civilizations. This is how God feeds! What brahmins do

Chaos, Gaia, Uranus. Chaos was born first in the Universe. No one can say what it is or what it looked like. It was a black haze, similar to an open huge mouth (even the name Chaos itself comes from the Greek word meaning “yawn”). All the beginnings of the future world were mixed in it: earth and water, air and fire. Following Chaos appeared Gaia - the Earth, the dark underground abyss - Tartarus and the most beautiful among all the gods - Eros (Love), whose power moves everything in the Universe and to which not only people and animals, but also the immortal gods themselves are subject.

From Chaos arose the black Night and the gloomy Darkness - Erebus, who then, having entered into marriage, gave birth to the Ether, in which the immortal gods live, and the shining Day - Hemera. Gaia-Earth also produced offspring. She first of all gave birth to Uranus, the starry Sky, which was equal to her in its boundless expanse, then - nymphs, forest goddesses, and finally - Pontus, the noisy boundless sea.

Uranus became Gaia's husband. The Earth spreads wide, mighty, giving life to everything, the mountains born of the Earth proudly rose to the Sky. Uranus looked at Gaia with tenderness: and then drops of life-giving rain fell from the sky to the earth - and she gave birth to flowers, trees, animals and birds. From the rain, rivers began to flow, and all the depressions were filled with water, forming lakes.

Three generations of giants. Soon three children were born to Gaia and Uranus. But they were not born to the joy of their parents: after all, they turned out to be terrible monsters - giants, as high as a mountain, each had fifty heads and a hundred hands (that’s why they called them hecatoncheires - “hundred-handed”). Uranus looked at his children and was afraid of their exorbitant strength. He imprisoned them in the bowels of the Earth, in the depths and darkness, and did not allow them to come into the light. Earth-Gaia trembled under their weight, but did not dare to argue with her husband.

Then three more children were born to Uranus and Gaia, but they were little better than the first. True, they had one head and two arms, but they were also giants, and one eye burned fiercely in their foreheads. They were called Cyclopes, and Uranus treated them as he did with their brothers.

Finally, the third generation of children of Uranus and Gaia was born, who were later called the Titans. Uranus and Gaia had six titan sons - Oceanus, Coy, Crius, Hyperion, Iapetus and the most terrible of them, the youngest of the titans - the cunning Kronos; In addition to sons, six Titanide daughters were born - Fairy, Rhea, Themis, Mnemosyne, Tethys and Phoebe. All of them, like the Hecatoncheires and Cyclopes before them, were imprisoned in Tartarus.

Giant titans and their children. Gaia suffered cruelly from the weight of her own children imprisoned in her bowels; She began to persuade her titan children to rebel against their father and deprive him of power. All the titans were afraid of the evil deed, and only the cunning and treacherous Kronos agreed to this. Having waylaid his father, he mutilated him with a blow from a sickle and thereby deprived him of all his strength and power. Since then, the children of Uranus and Gaia, who stretched out their hands to the wicked deed, were called titans, forming this word from the Greek verb meaning “to stretch out.” And from the blood of Uranus, spilled on the earth, the terrible goddess of vengeance Erinyes and the mighty snake-footed giants were born.

This is how the titans acquired power in the world. Soon they had many children, among whom were Helios-Sun, and Selene-Moon, and ruddy Eos-Dawn and many others. Little by little order was established in the world. The young sun was shining above the earth, heavy rains fell from the clouds, and the grass became even greener; The stars shone in the dark expanses of the night, and when they turned pale, the birds greeted the dawn with a welcoming song.

Rhea hands Kron the stone,
wrapped in swaddling clothes.

Kronos became the ruler of the world. But he had no peace: after all, he had gained power by unjust means, cursed his bleeding Uranus, and therefore was afraid that one of his children would do to him the same way as he did to his father. He decided to destroy his children: as soon as his daughter or son was born, he ordered the child to be brought to him and swallowed him. So he devoured three daughters, Hestia, Demeter and Hera, and two sons, Hades and Poseidon.

Birth of Zeus. When another son, Zeus, was born, the goddess Rhea, his mother, felt sorry for giving the baby to be eaten by his father, and, on the advice of Earth-Gaia, she gave Kronos a stone wrapped in swaddling clothes; Kronos swallowed it and did not notice anything. And Gaia-Earth hid little Zeus on the island of Crete, in a deep cave on Mount Ida, where he grew up in secret from his father. Little Zeus was looked after by nymph goddesses, they fed him honey and gave him the milk of the wonderful goat Amalthea. Later, Zeus thanked her for this by raising her to heaven and making her the constellation Capricorn. In addition, he turned one of Amalthea’s horns into a Cornucopia, which, at the request of its owner, can provide any food and drink.

Zeus returns sisters and brothers. The golden cradle of little Zeus hung on a tree so that Kronos could not notice him either on earth, or in heaven, or in the sea. She was surrounded by Rhea's servants - the Kuretes; if a child began to cry, then they hit the shields with spears and performed a noisy dance so that the crying would not reach Kronos.

Many years passed like this. Zeus grew up, matured and decided to return to the world the sisters and brothers swallowed by Kronos, so that together with them he could take revenge on his father. On the advice of the daughter of Ocean Metis (Wisdom), he quietly mixed salt and mustard into the honey drink that Kronos drank, so that he immediately vomited out first a stone that replaced Zeus, then his two brothers - Poseidon and Hades, and finally three sisters - Hera, Demeter and Hestia. Therefore, they said about Hestia that she was born both the first of the children of Kronos, and the last - after all, she was the first to be born by Rhea and the last was vomited out by Kronos.

The fight of the children of Kronos with the titans. All the children of Kronos were safe and sound and, in gratitude, offered Zeus to lead their fight against the Titans. Thus began the terrible war of the Kronids (children of Kronos) and the Titan gods, which lasted ten years. Neither one nor the other could win: their forces were equal. Then Gaia gave Zeus advice to win over to his side the terrible allies imprisoned in the bowels of the Earth, the Hecatoncheires and Cyclopes (after all, Kronos, having deprived his father of power, brought only the titans out of Tartarus). Zeus, obeying the foremother of all living, went to Tartarus. Having freed the prisoners, Zeus gave them a taste of nectar and ambrosia - the food of the gods, which supports immortality - and the giants rose up, were filled with strength and took the side of Zeus in the fight.

The nymph Adrastea feeds the baby
whom Zeus from the horn of the goat Amalthea.
Pan is standing on the right.

For the decisive battle, the Cyclopes forged weapons for the god brothers: Hades - an invisibility helmet, Poseidon - a trident, and Zeus - thunder and lightning. The gods fortified themselves on the top of Mount Olympus. The titans moved towards her. The boundless sea roared terribly, the earth groaned, even the wide sky trembled, and the great Olympus trembled to its feet. Zeus began to throw his thunder and lightning - the earth roared from the heat, the flames swirled, the forest caught fire, the waters of the ancient gray Ocean began to boil. The hundred-armed giants broke off pieces of rocks and threw them at the titans, three hundred stones at a time, so that the stones obscured the sunlight. The noise from the battle was such that it seemed as if the sky had fallen on the earth and broken it into innumerable pieces.

Finally, the Titans were defeated and imprisoned in gloomy Tartarus, the gates of which Zeus set to guard the Hecatoncheires. There, in the underground darkness, they were supposed to remain forever.

The fate of Atlas and the Cyclopes. One Titan, Atlas, who was the leader of their army in the battle, received a different punishment. The gods placed him in the extreme west of the world, where he holds the vault of heaven on his shoulders. As for the Cyclopes, allies of Zeus, dangerous with their fierce, uncontrollable power, they too were removed away from sunlight. Zeus placed them in an underground forge, where they were to forge him his formidable weapon.

The War with the Titans was the first of Zeus' battles for power over the world. He had two more terrible battles ahead - with the giants and with Typhon.

Battle with giants. The role of Hercules. The first to attack the gods were the giants - the children of Gaia, born from the blood of Uranus, outraged by the fact that their titan brothers were imprisoned in Tartarus. Each of them was huge and scary, they all had long beards and had writhing snake bodies instead of legs.

From the tops of the mountains on which they lived, they showered the sky with huge stones and burning tree trunks, and their terrible onslaught at first even pushed the gods back. Unlike titans, giants were mortal, but only humans could defeat them. The gods had to turn to the mortal hero Hercules for help. Gaia found out about this and decided to protect her children from the arrows of Hercules with the help of magic grass. However, she failed to find the grass - Zeus found out about her intentions and forbade Eos, Helios and Selene to appear in the sky. The world was covered in darkness, and in this darkness Zeus himself found the necessary grass and cut it, depriving the giants of hope of victory.

The battle took place in the homeland of the giants, on the Phlegrean Fields in Greece. However, the arrows of Hercules did not at first bring victory to the gods. The giant Alcyoneus, struck by him, fell to the ground, immediately jumped up and rushed into battle with renewed vigor. Then it became clear to the gods that in their native land, which gave them strength, it was impossible to kill the giants. Athena found a way out: Hercules dragged the giants slain by the gods outside the Phlegrean fields and finished them off there with his club. Thus the giants were defeated.

The myths and legends of Ancient Greece say that the gods of Olympus ate the mysterious ambrosia (ambrosia in Homer) and drank nectar, which gave them eternal youth. According to esoteric sources, thanks to them, King Zeus lived a long and stormy life in perfect health. According to myths, nectar was poured by the goddess of youth Hebe, daughter of Zeus and Hera (sister of Ares). On Mount Olympus, she served the gods as a cupbearer - she served ambrosia and nectar; later this position was transferred to Ganymede.
In those ancient times, to maintain health, there were also healing springs; “rejuvenating apples” and other fruits and plants that had great healing power were grown. But over time, people forgot about the properties and places of occurrence of the food of the gods. Climate change, geological disasters, the death of states...
Some memory of them was still preserved, and therefore spiritual and secular rulers repeatedly organized expeditions to search for mysterious minerals that would be able to prolong their youth and give them eternal life. Unfortunately, for modern science these substances remain unknown and are perceived by scientists as a beautiful invention, the fantasy of eccentrics.
I have had the opportunity to speak publicly on the topic of edible minerals more than once. And to confirm my hypothesis, I received an interesting message from Alexander, the leader of one of the geological exploration expeditions. He wrote that he was lucky enough to see in the second half of the 20th century a unique and mysterious mineral that strongly resembled the legendary ambrosia. This happened during a geological expedition to the east of the country. It included a unique scientist. It was he who showed Alexander the mysterious natural mineral.
In appearance, the mineral looked like a transparent jelly-like glass-like substance. According to the consultant, this substance is formed in the lower layers (strata) of the mountains, allegedly due to its squeezing out by the huge weight of the mountains from certain types of rock layers. This substance is difficult to find, but even more difficult to preserve. It has unusual optical properties. According to the scientist, in ancient times this substance was mined in well-protected areas to ensure the longevity of rulers. In terms of cost, a diamond, in comparison with a healing mineral, was similar to river sand.
Alexander’s letter is another evidence that unique and mysterious minerals are still available in our country today, and some modern scientists know about them. However, the search and study of minerals is carried out mainly by enthusiasts at the expense of their own funds, time and health.
My many years of research have shown that ambrosia and nectar are formed in the lower layers of the root part of the mountains. Ambrosia has a crystalline appearance and stands out with its light color among the black rocks. True, its color in different deposits has some differences. And the nectar is represented by growths (stalactites), formed from the deposits of thick oily juice of dark rocks. It has a yellowish-orange color. The growth of these stalactites occurs in the spring and summer.
In ancient times, nectar was mixed with fruit juice for consumption. In terms of stored vital energy, ambrosia and nectar surpassed all nutritious minerals and liquids on Earth.
If we turn to ancient Indian sources, it follows from them that mountains are biological (living) organisms, like plants, and spread through the root system. They grow, age and die, gradually deteriorating. Mountains, like trees, have their own life system with energy and fluid flows. The butt, lower part of the mountains is, according to esoteric sources, the most important zone in their life. This is where deposits of the most valuable substances are formed.
The jelly-like substance comes to the surface not due to its squeezing out under the weight of the mountains (as the scientist mentioned above told the author of the letter, geologist Alexander), but due to natural energy flows. They lift the substance to the top, just as energy flows in trees lift sap to the top of the head. Deposits of valuable minerals are located in the mountains from the Indigirka River basin and further south to Tibet and India. They are also found in the Urals, Caucasus, Central Asia, and Iran.
According to legend, in some places, ambrosia and nectar were obtained by “fairytale” gnomes, with whom Zeus knew how to negotiate, as well as with the underground titans. Of course, most modern people perceive this with a smile, as a myth, but some evidence suggests that, in parallel with “homo sapiens,” apparently some other creatures live in underground cavities of natural and man-made origin.
From the literature we know about a “fantastic” incident that took place in August 1945 during the offensive operation of Soviet troops against the Kwantung Army. Its reliability, we emphasize, has not been documented. The Soviet fighter pilot (his name is Vasily Egorov) was shot down by the Japanese, but he managed to leave the plane and parachute into a small grove. According to Vasily himself, he hid in the bushes and fell asleep. Egorov woke up with a strange sensation - his arms and legs did not obey. Raising his head, he saw that his torso was wrapped in some kind of translucent tape.
The pilot, according to him, discovered some creatures near him that could have been mistaken for small monkeys, if not for the clothes and knives in his hands. According to the pilot, they were people, but very small - their height did not exceed 45 centimeters. The sounds they made were reminiscent of birds chirping. The pilot was forced to spend more than 13 years in the underground labyrinth of these little men who called themselves Hanyangs. Egorov returned to the people in the spring of 1959. One day, after a thunderstorm, he found himself on the surface and was discovered by Mongol herders.
The investigation into the circumstances of his disappearance did not yield any results - no one wanted to take Egorov’s stories about dwarfs seriously. The case materials were kept secret just in case. But during an X-ray of the pilot’s skull, a strange dense formation was discovered in the occipital region. It turned out that Egorov underwent craniotomy around 1945.
Of course, information about this case can be considered as an invention of journalists of the “yellow press”, greedy for sensations, but what about the fact that such a pilot, a holder of a military order, actually lived after the war in the south of the Voronezh region? And how to explain the phenomenon of the Vlasov labyrinth in the area of ​​the village of Vlasovka, Gribanovsky district in the same Voronezh region? An underground labyrinth discovered by archaeologists could only be used by dwarf people...
It is known that on Earth, with a cycle of about 5 thousand years (sometimes 2.5 thousand), humanity changes the way it eats. More than 5 thousand years ago, humanity practically did not eat animal meat, just as monks, priests and many residents of Tibet, the Himalayas, India and a number of other places on the planet do not eat it today. People then consumed mineral foods in significant quantities in combination with plant foods. Minerals used in food, having a long lifespan, had a positive effect on human lifespan.
This is also important for military affairs. After all, one of the problems of military campaigns is often the food supply of fighters, especially during long marches in sparsely populated areas of the Earth. Underestimation of this problem has more than once led to military failure. For example, it is known that the Persian king Darius I (550 - 486 BC) lost a significant part of his army due to hunger during his campaign in Scythia. He left the Scythian lands without achieving his goal and leaving eight fortresses in the area of ​​modern Penza unfinished. Another commander - Alexander the Great - in the 4th century. BC. also suffered losses due to hunger, returning from a campaign in India through sparsely populated areas of Asia.
I assume that current quartermasters have heard little about mineral food, but it can be useful to military reconnaissance officers and special forces units.
Famous travelers and hunters of past centuries used zeolitized earths, which have healing properties, as dietary supplements. These same lands are used by animals. There are known cases when monks, retiring for meditation in caves for a month or more, ate only zeolitized clay, which they took from the walls of the cave, like Buddha (zeolites is a geological term, from the Greek zeo - boiling and lithos - stone; that’s what they were called from -for the ability to swell when heated - Ed.).

“You are welcome, come in so that I can treat you.”
Having said this, the goddess set the table in front of the guest,
Full of ambrosia; I mixed the crimson nectar for him.”

Homer. "Odyssey".

In Russia, mineral food is still consumed in the Altai region near the Katun and Akkem rivers and further up to Chukotka. This white clay feels oily to the touch. It makes the water white and sweet. The author of the book “Pacific Diary” Boris Lapin wrote that in 1928, at the suggestion of the Chukchi, he tasted a special food land. The earth tastes oily, disintegrates in the mouth, becomes soft like jelly.
By the way, the name Belovodye (White Waters) probably comes from the fact that in these places, during spring floods and heavy rains, the rivers became white like milk from the waters running down from the mountains (the epic “milk rivers”). These mountains are still rich in zeolitized white clays.
In the old days, earth from the bank of the Katun River, as a valuable mineral, was transported on carts to the steppe, where it was exchanged for bread, and in the spring, when supplies ran out, local residents also ate it. Eating edible clay relieved stomach pains, headaches, and gave people strength.
Currently, various types of edible mineral earth are known. Scientists called the use of earth as food geophagy (“earth eating”). It has been established that kaolin present in clay helps in treating the stomach. The ancient Greeks treated stomach colic and heart disease by including edible soil consecrated by the priests in their diet.
There is still a lot of knowledge that can help people survive during natural and social disasters, in extreme situations, but, alas, modern man has acquired the habit of believing in the omnipotence of technological progress and modern pharmaceuticals. And only when he finds himself far from civilization in an extreme situation, face to face with wild nature, does a person begin to look at the world differently.

P.S.
Every nation has its own myths about what exactly “divine food” should be. Interestingly, however, it all comes down to literally a few types of products. Most of them are well known and available today. For example, this is wild honey, pomegranates, and some varieties of apples. Wormwood juice, wormwood itself, and pepper are also mentioned. Ambrosia was also presented as the sweetest barley porridge with honey, olives and fruits.
There is no complete clarity regarding the composition of nectar. Perhaps it is a mixture of fruit and berry juices. Some locusts were also used as food. It is possible that these are locusts or some other edible insects. True, there is a version that locusts were the name given to the buds of shrubs growing in the Middle East. To this we must add that the gods of Olympus used mountain and spring water as a drink. This is the secret of the immortality of the celestials of ancient myths.
In general, in botany, ambrosia (lat. Ambrosia) is a herbaceous plant of the Asteraceae family, the pollen of which is a strong allergen. There are 40 species, distributed mainly in America.
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British scientists from the Institute of Food Research in 2006 came to the conclusion that apples can extend a person’s life by 17 years and contribute to the rejuvenation of the body. Researchers have discovered the polyphenol epicatechin in apples, a complex element that improves blood circulation, increases the level of immune system protection and rejuvenates the heart. It reduces the process of hardening of the walls of blood vessels, which is one of the main reasons for creating the risk of heart disease, heart attack or stroke. The most significant concentration of the polyphenol epicatechin is found in wild apples.
Since ancient times, apples have been known for their beneficial properties, for example, for rheumatism, gout, atherosclerosis, chronic eczema and other skin diseases. They help strengthen vision, skin, hair and nails. In addition, this fruit contains substances that help the body better absorb iron from other foods.
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Knowledge about mineral and plant foods, some futurologists believe, may in the near future help humanity survive. Of course, I wish such dark times would never come, but...
The famous Bulgarian clairvoyant Vanga, speaking about signs of negative changes on the planet, warned: “The bees will disappear first.” Albert Einstein said something similar, allegedly warning that the disappearance of bees threatens the extinction of humanity. According to the words attributed to him, if the bees disappear, then in four years people will cease to exist.
Vanga's prediction about bees was initially treated with skepticism. They say, where will they, buzzing and stinging, go... However, in our decade, problems with beekeeping in Europe forced us to remember her prophecy. It turned out that the bee population in Europe and America is rapidly declining. In recent years, entire families of bees have left their hives, leaving behind both supplies and their offspring. This insect behavior was named Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) by scientists. The United States has already lost up to 80 percent of its bee population, and in different European countries this figure ranges from 40 to 60 percent.
Bees, let us explain, contribute to the reproduction of up to 80 percent of plants. The absence of bees makes it impossible to grow large quantities of cereals, vegetables, fruits, i.e. threatens the food supply of humanity. About a third of human food comes from plants that grow only through pollination by these insects.
There are several reasons for the decline in the number of bees - the spread of bee diseases (for example, the Israeli acute paralysis virus), and pesticides, and the emergence of genetically modified crops, and the impact of electromagnetic radiation, including from millions of mobile phones. According to some experts, it is electromagnetic radiation of a certain frequency that leads to the disappearance of bees. We are talking about the widespread use in the West of “third generation” mobile communication systems with an operating frequency in the range
2 gigahertz (somewhere within this range there may be a “bee death wave”).

This is how God feeds!

The sadhus walked further until they came across a village, where they stopped for the night at the Maruti temple. As a rule, they were content with one hot meal a day. In the evening, Ramcharandas, if possible, ate some light food. Almost all the villages of Maharashtra - and almost all of India - have a temple and an adjoining dharamshala. During this journey they invariably spent the nights in the temple or in the dharamshala and always set out early in the morning. They made their first stop for “lunch” at the roadside village where midday found them.

The next day they were approaching a village where they planned to stop for the day.

- Ram, have you forgotten that we no longer ask for alms? – just in case, Ramdas reminded. – Rely completely on God in this matter. Let's just go to the temple, sit quietly and engage in chanting His name.

Entering the village, they walked towards the Vittala temple and sat down on the veranda. It was past noon. A local resident entered the temple and, seeing the sadhu, asked: “Why are you sitting here inactive? It's lunch time. Go to the Brahmin community and beg there.”

Ramdas did not answer, Ramcharandas also remained silent. The man left. Another half hour passed. With all his appearance, Ramcharandas showed that he was very skeptical. About ten minutes later another man entered the temple.

-Have you already had lunch? - followed the question. – Hearing Ramdas’ negative answer, he asked:

- How are you going to get food?

“God will send,” Ramdas answered modestly. “It looks like his words went to the right place.”

“This God you talk about obliges me to invite you to dinner at my home,” the friend assessed the situation. “But the difficulty is that I am from the tailor caste.” You may not want to accept food from my hands.

“You are the Lord yourself in the eyes of these sadhus,” Ramdas hastened to assure him. – Therefore there can be no objections.

“I’ll be right back,” he answered and disappeared, only to reappear almost immediately with a bucket and rope. He took the sadhus to the well and helped them wash, after which they proceeded to his house, which stood a few yards from the temple. The tailor's wife and children greeted them with great joy and warmth and heartily fed them a hearty lunch. After leaving the house, they returned to the temple and rested a little, and then set off again.

On the way, Ramdas asked Ramcharandas:

- Well, don’t you believe that God himself fed us with such love?

Ramcharandas was not inclined to engage in conversation and remained silent. The day passed and another came. By noon they approached another village and took refuge in the local Vithoba temple. The sun has passed its zenith. Time flew quickly and was approaching one hour. There have been no signals for lunch yet. Ramcharandas fidgeted restlessly, his patience running out.

“Swamiji,” he couldn’t resist, “this time Vithoba hesitated a lot.” I'm afraid he has completely forgotten about us.

“Stop thinking about food, Ram,” Ramdas urged. – Just remember Him. Let us submit to His will.

After waiting a little longer and making sure that no events were coming, Ramcharandas said that he would rather take a nap. He lay down, covering his head, but what kind of sleep was there if his stomach was cramping from hunger? The guy kept turning back the edge of his clothes and looking through the crack to see if there was anyone on the street. Every second he checked to see if food was coming. It must have been two o'clock when Ramcharandas suddenly sat up and shouted:

- Swamiji, Swamiji, Vithoba is finally coming - look, here he is on the street, running towards us!

Indeed, a dark-skinned man was hurrying towards the temple. He went straight to the sadhu and immediately asked if they had lunch (as if he didn’t know!). Having received a negative answer, he ran away and returned a few minutes later with two plates of food. Having placed them in front of the sadhu, he began to eagerly ask them to taste the treat. Of course, there was no need to persuade them, and they immediately started dinner. At that very moment, a group of about ten kirtan performers entered the temple with cymbals, mrdanga and veena. While the sadhus were busy with the contents of their plates, they danced and sang the famous hymns of Tukaram. What does all this mean? God was not content to provide them with food for the body, but also provided them with a spiritual feast. How merciful are your deeds, Lord!

This text is an introductory piece.

The death of the old and the creation of a new world

Almost all of the above and many other legends about the appearance of the moon, the sun, changes in the direction of movement of the luminaries, the fall of fiery bodies to the earth, the fires that engulfed it, the plunging of the Earth into darkness, the emergence of new heavens and earth, the creation of new people are accompanied by the statement that all these events occurred when the old and new worlds changed. The new world is almost universally called the “world of people.”
The Old World in some legends (Slavic, Scandinavian, Iranian, Old Testament, South American, apparently Egyptian, Japanese, etc.) is called (or is considered, although not called) the first world, in others - the second (legends of the Hopi Indians, Arawaks , Maya, apparently, Sumerian legends, etc.), in third - third or fourth (Mayan, Aztec legends, most Indian and Chinese legends), in fourth - fifth (Aztec legends), in fifth - sixth and even seventh ( some Indian legends). But this does not change anything, because the mythology of most peoples living on Earth says that in the old world there were no real or “new” people (their creation occurred at the border of the old and new worlds). And the old world, according to the legends of the Mayans, Nahuas and Aztecs, as well as Indian, Chinese, German-Scandinavian and other legends, was inhabited by differentgiants (and) who were vegetarians.
In the mythology of many peoples of the world, the old world is compared with Paradise (and). Thus, Slavic legends say that on the first Earth, which was called Finger, It was eternal spring (there was no night yet), everything was blooming and fragrant.After the death of the first world, Svarog raised his palace high and protected it with an icy firmament. And on top of the firmament he created a new one,a more beautiful Azure world and transferred Paradise-Iriy there and built a new road there - Star Trek, along which the Raya-river flows, so that those worthy of Raya-Iria can reach it this way.Then Svarog poured water on the burning Finger, extinguished the fires, and from the destroyed, dead Azure World he created a new world, a new nature, and called it Earth, which means “to be in suffering”.
Ancient Iranian legends also report that the first world created by Ahura Mazda was the worldlight, warmth, peace and life.Then it was destroyed by Angra Mainyu, who created death, winter, cold, flood. Ahura Mazda saved people from all these hardships by building a shelter for them underground.
The legend of the Hopi Indians states that the Second World of Tokpa or Dark Midnight (corresponding to the Fourth World Age of the Aztecs) was not as perfect as the first, but was also beautiful in its own way.
In contrast to this, inMayan Popol Vuhand most Aztec codices, the Fourth World is described in the darkest colors. According to some Aztec legends, the Third World Age (Second Mayan World), according to others, the Fourth (Third Mayan World) was a world of endless bloody wars, hunger, cold and disease. To this we can add “and darkness” if we extend it to at least part of the Fourth World Age. Gods, demons and “old” people began to mercilessly destroy each other.
According to Vatican Codex A, during the Fourth World Age there was a war between the gods and there was a terrible famine on Earth. Many Sumerian, Indian and, apparently, Chinese legends tell about this.
Thus, the Sumerian myth about the creation of people says:
« In the days of yore, when the heavens were separated from the earth, in the nights of yore, when the earth was separated from
Heaven separated, the tribe of celestials multiplied and due to lack of food
suffered O. The immortal foremothers prayed,
begging her to satisfy their hunger. Enki woke up Namma:
- Wake up, my son! Banish the dream! Deliver the gods from torment!...
...You didn’t create assistants who would take your worries on their shoulders...
… Of people …Let them look like your brothers, but they do not know immortality».
The Akkadian and Babylonian poem “When Above” tells first about the long period of carefree life of Marduk in his heavenly palace, and then about those times when the gods began to endure hunger and cold and came to him for help. Marduk decided to create "people" so that they would feed the gods, and went to Ea for bones and blood. By sacrificing the dragon to King, he blinded the “people.”
And here is another Sumerian myth on the same topic - about the battle of Ninurta with the army of the country of Kuru,"which knows no return" (dragons and other chthonic forces), which I compare in the book “The Land Before the Flood - the World of Sorcerers and Werewolves” with Indra’s son Arjuna:
“The waters of death fell on the glorious city of Ninurta, flooding the earth, and the water of life was blocked. Then the gods were alarmed, carrying baskets on their shoulders and loosening the earth with hoes. Famine struck the country, as the poisonous waters of death flowed through the canals. The mountaineers descended after them, destroying everything on their way, turning people into slavery.”
The myth of Ninurta describes in bright, vibrant colors what was happening on Earth at that time.War, destruction, devastation, land and water were poisoned.
What was the reason for such different attitudes towards the lost world among different peoples, I will tell you in the final part of the work.
And now I repeat once again thatthe new world, unlike the previous one, became contrasting and polar. A different sun, moon, seasonal and climatic zonation, glaciers, deserts, etc. appeared in it.
Thus, in the Avesta it is reported that formerly motionless « the sun began to move across the sky and regulate the seasons in accordance with the truth-asha.”
The Sumerian myth “The Mountain of Heaven” states that after the earth-born god Nanna (Moon) ascended to heaven, he began to show mortals the change of times.
In the Egyptian world "Ra Continues to Create the World" it is said that at the moment of transferring the earthly throne from Ra (the old Sun) to Geb (the new Sun), he announced:
“Let my serpents and my enemies know,” declared the god of gods, “that although I am moving away, I still shine above them. You, Geb, will now be the ruler of the earth!
Thus ended the era of the earthly reign of Ra-Horakhti. The era of the reign of Geb has come.»
According to another myth, Ra abdicated in favor of Thoth (the moon god). However, Thoth did not agree to reign alone, and then the gods divided power: Ra and Thoth began to replace each other on the throne, so the time of day began to change.
The Scandinavian legend about the last battle of the gods, Ragnarok, says that almost all people died in a fire and flood. However, our planet was reborn: a new sky, a new earth and a new underworld arose. The younger gods (Vidar, Vali, Magni, Modi, the resurrected Balder) survived and populated the restored Asgard. Two people also survived - the man Livtrasir and the woman Liv, who laid the foundation for a new humanity.
The land, previously raised from the sea, sank back into it, ice and fire destroyed the universe.
The Book of Genesis, the Book of Enoch and the main Kabbalistic book “Zohar” also contain an indication of a catastrophe, which with a very high degree of probability occurred at the turn of the Fourth and Fifth world eras of the Aztecs. This catastrophe occurred during the presence of fallen angels (and) on Earth - the sons of God, guardians, nephilim and their descendants - rephaim, and expressed in the descent from heaven of the sun, moon and stars and their submission to the fallen angels (as before they were subject to the Holy One).
According to Kabbalistic teachings, the previous world perished as a result of the catastrophe“which preceded the present, but died before its emergence” The punishment of the fallen angels was their imprisonment underground.
As the final “chord” of the creation of a new world, we can cite the Chinese legend about the reign of the legendary emperorZhuan-xuya. According to him, Zhuang-xu instructed the spirit Chun (Jun) to rule the south, sky and spirits, and the spirit Li to rule the north, earth and people, so that people and gods would not mix, and order would reign everywhere. By order of Zhuan-xu, Chun and Li interrupted communication between heaven and earth, and people could no longer ascend to heaven.Light and darkness began to alternate sequentially, and, as the legend says, there was peace in the human world and in heaven.

My work “Legends and hypotheses about the lunar rabbit, the churning of the ocean, the unwinding of the firmament, the origin of the Moon and the connection of the Moon with death and immortality - a description of catastrophes at the turn of the Third and Fourth and Fourth and Fifth world eras, the acquisition of a modern appearance by the Earth and the emergence of modern man - Homo Sapiens", which complements this work, as well as a series of my works "Eras of human development in the mythologies of the Mayans, Nahuas and Aztecs" in the section "Five World Ages and Humanities of the Mayans, Nahuas and Aztecs"
Read also my work on the time of existence of a water-vapor shell above the Earth"