Hidden History of the Flood
Almost every culture on Earth has some sort of flood myth – and the same haunting feeling accompanies them all, the same nagging suspicion that something so traumatic as to be almost unbearable might actually have happened.
Intense trauma can sometimes hide itself from awareness by short-circuiting the memory; this may be why so many of [...]
Those Nasty Nephilim
The idea that an omnipotent creator god could callously seek to exterminate an entire species for the sins of a few shocks and outrages the conscience, but the Biblical “flood” had nothing to do with human sin; instead, fallen angels had been skinny-dipping in the human gene-pool:
“To theologians and philosophers, it is a fact, that [...]
Naughty Norea
It was not Noah who was the hero of the flood story, but Eve’s daughter Norea – a fiery, rebellious young woman who sabotaged Noah’s ark, rejected Yaldabaoth’s lecherous advances and finally escaped on the wings of an angel.
Yaldabaoth, the story goes, was so disturbed when he realized that mankind had begun to “multiply and [...]
