The Deluge & Noah’s Ark

Noah

Noah's Miraculous Birth with a Shining Face

According to Book of Enoch and midrash in Legends of the Jews, Noah is born with a radiant face and open eyes that illuminate the house, speaking praises to God immediately, causing his father Lamech to fear he was angelic offspring until Methuselah confirms his divine election.

Noah's Ark = baptism by water (flood), air (birds), fire (burnt offering on Mount Ararat, which means "illuminated one"); 

The Great Flood as an Internal Experience on the Path….

“The great flood in Genesis is not about a literal flood upon the Earth. Whether that actually happened or not is irrelevant. It describes a process that occurs within ourselves once we reach a certain point in the Great Work. Today after Invoking all of the main Sumerian deities that represent primal forces - from Nammu, Anu, Enlil, Enki, etc - and then all the deities representing planets - I began invoking the deities representing the powers of the original 18 Sumerian constellations. As I did so, the formed something around me that I can only describe as the firmament. I was the Earth, and I was surrounded by the celestial globe. And then it gave way....and a deluge entered. The Earth was submerged. When we do these practices we are tracing our way backwards through the stories in the Bible and the Sumerian tablets. We are aligning our consciousness with.....I am tempted to say a previous astrological configuration. Not the universe as it now exists.” - Damien Echols, Journal entry from his Patreon

Noah’s Ark

the journey from the end of a world into a new world

You pack up the animals, the seeds,

you store the genetic material

You preserve the books and scrolls

you take whatever you want to save from the coming wave of destruction

You become lost in the storm, floating on the endless sea, and you wake up the next day, or in weeks time, and the sun comes out and the storm has passed

And you pass through the portal

into a new world

An ark of conscioussness

A time of destruction and flood did come to humanity, and at least one person or multiple had foreknoweldge from higher realms and prepared to pass through the storm with their family/community

The Atlantis Civilization was destroyed,

only a remnant of a remnant survived

and they helped to start the nextt cycle of civilization, and to make sure that not all the knowledge would be lost

The Kaloo

The survivors of this civilization, who taught things to the Egyptians, Essenes, etc…

The Raven's Mission from the Ark

Midrash in Sanhedrin 108b expands Noah's raven release as a test of loyalty; the bird refuses, accusing Noah of sending it to perish so he can claim its mate, but God rebukes it, assigning ravens eternal scavenging duties as punishment for ingratitude.

The Birth of Noah

The Book of Enoch transitions from Enoch's time to the birth of Noah with an account that appears in the section called "The Book of Noah" (chapters 106-107). The narrative is shocking in its detail.

Lamech, son of Methuselah and grandson of Enoch, returns home from a journey to find his wife has given birth. But when he sees the child, terror grips him:

"And after some days my son Methuselah took a wife for his son Lamech, and she became pregnant by him and bore a son. And his body was white as snow and red as the blooming of a rose, and the hair of his head and his long locks were white as wool, and his eyes beautiful. And when he opened his eyes, he lighted up the whole house like the sun, and the whole house was very bright" (Enoch 106:2).

This is not a normal child. Noah's appearance is otherworldly. His skin glows with unnatural radiance. His hair is white from birth. When he opens his eyes, light fills the room. And then—most disturbing of all—the infant speaks.

Lamech is convinced this cannot be his child. He had been away during the time of conception. The child's appearance suggests he might be the offspring of a Watcher, or worse, one of the Nephilim. In an age when fallen angels are taking human women as wives and producing monstrous offspring, Lamech's fear is not paranoia—it is rational caution.

He confronts his wife: "I have begotten a strange son, diverse from and unlike man, and resembling the sons of the God of heaven; and his nature is different and he is not like us, and his eyes are as the rays of the sun, and his countenance is glorious. And it seems to me that he is not sprung from me but from the angels" (Enoch 106:5-6).

Lamech goes to his father Methuselah in desperation, asking him to seek wisdom from Enoch, who though taken to heaven, can still be petitioned. Methuselah travels to "the ends of the earth" to call upon his father. Enoch appears and delivers God's reassurance:

"And now make known to thy son Lamech that he who has been born is in truth his son, and call his name Noah; for he shall be left to you, and he and his sons shall be saved from the destruction which shall come upon the Earth on account of all the sin and all the unrighteousness, which shall be consummated on the earth in his days" (Enoch 106:18).

Noah is not Nephilim. He is fully human. But the Book of Enoch leaves a tantalizing ambiguity: How was Noah conceived if Lamech was away? The text offers two possible interpretations. Either this is a divine miracle—a virgin birth of sorts, ordained by God to produce a perfectly righteous human untainted by the corruption of the age—or it is something else: artificial insemination, genetic manipulation, a carefully engineered hybrid designed to carry humanity's genetic legacy through the coming apocalypse.

The "ancient astronaut" interpretation suggests that Noah represents successful genetic engineering—a human optimized for survival, genetically pure, incorruptible. His glowing appearance might indicate genetic modifications, enhancements that make him appear almost angelic. Unlike the Nephilim, who are unstable hybrids of fallen angels and humans, Noah would be a stable, perfected human—the template for a new humanity.

Whatever the mechanism, Noah's purpose is clear: He will survive. When everything else is destroyed, he will remain. And from him, the world will begin again.

The Decision to Destroy

In heaven, God surveys the earth and makes his grim assessment. The experiment has failed. Humanity, given free will, has chosen evil. The Watchers, given stewardship, have become tyrants. The Nephilim, never meant to exist, are abominations. The entire system is broken beyond repair.

Genesis records the divine verdict: "So the Lord said, 'I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them'" (Genesis 6:7).

But the Book of Enoch provides additional detail about what God intends to do with the Watchers themselves:

"And the Lord said unto Michael: 'Go, bind Semjaza and his associates who have united themselves with women so as to have defiled themselves with them in all their uncleanness. And when their sons have slain one another, and they have seen the destruction of their beloved ones, bind them fast for seventy generations in the valleys of the earth, till the day of their judgement and of their consummation, till the judgement that is for ever and ever is consummated'" (Enoch 10:11-13).

The fallen Watchers will not be killed. Death would be too merciful. Instead, they will be bound in the earth—imprisoned in darkness, in the valleys and chasms beneath the mountains, locked away until the final judgment at the end of days. There they will remain conscious, aware, suffering, while seventy generations pass above them.

And Azazel, the chief transgressor who taught humans warfare and violence, receives special punishment:

"And again the Lord said to Raphael: 'Bind Azazel hand and foot, and cast him into the darkness: and make an opening in the desert, which is in Dudael, and cast him therein. And place upon him rough and jagged rocks, and cover him with darkness, and let him abide there for ever, and cover his face that he may not see light. And on the day of the great judgement he shall be cast into the fire'" (Enoch 10:4-6).

Azazel is buried alive in a desert place, weighted down with stones, covered in eternal darkness, unable to see light until the day he is cast into fire for final destruction. His prison is both physical and metaphorical—a place of absolute isolation, absolute deprivation.

As for the Nephilim, God decrees their destruction, but with a terrible twist:

"And now, the giants, who are produced from the spirits and flesh, shall be called evil spirits upon the earth, and on the earth shall be their dwelling. Evil spirits have proceeded from their bodies; because they are born from men and from the holy Watchers is their beginning and primal origin; they shall be evil spirits on earth, and evil spirits shall they be called" (Enoch 15:8-9).

The Nephilim will die in the flood, but their spirits—disembodied, angry, powerful—will remain on earth as demons. This passage provides the origin story for demonic activity in Judeo-Christian theology. Demons are not fallen angels themselves, but the disincarnate spirits of the Nephilim, forever seeking bodies to inhabit, forever tormenting humanity in revenge for their own destruction.

Building the Ark

With judgment pronounced, God must preserve Noah. The Book of Genesis provides the famous account, but the Book of Enoch clarifies that it is not God himself who delivers the warning—it is Uriel, the same archangel who escorted Enoch through heaven.

Uriel appears to Noah and delivers explicit instructions:

"Make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high. Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit high all around. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks" (Genesis 6:14-16).

The dimensions are specific: 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, 30 cubits high. If Noah used the Egyptian Royal Cubit (approximately 20.6 inches), this makes the ark roughly 515 feet long, 86 feet wide, and 52 feet high—larger than a football field, with the carrying capacity of over 500 modern livestock train cars. Three decks provide approximately 95,000 square feet of floor space.

This is not a boat. It is a floating warehouse, a rectangular barge designed not for navigation but for survival. The Hebrew word used is תֵּבָה (tevah), which means "box" or "chest"—the same word used for the basket that carried baby Moses on the Nile. The ark has no rudder, no sail, no means of propulsion. It will float wherever the waters carry it, preserved by divine providence rather than human seamanship.

The instructions continue with a mission that seems impossible:

"You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you. Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive. You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them" (Genesis 6:19-21).

At this point in history, the earth hosted millions of species. Even limiting the mandate to "kinds" (Hebrew: מִין, min, possibly meaning genus or family rather than species), the logistical challenge is staggering. Traditional biblical interpretation suggests Noah saved representatives of each broad category—one pair of wolves from which all canine breeds could later descend, one pair of felines, one pair of bovines, and so forth.

Some scholars propose that Noah's cargo included juvenile animals—calves and lambs rather than full-grown adults—to maximize space and minimize food requirements. Young animals would also be more docile, easier to manage, and would have their full reproductive years ahead of them after the flood.

But the ancient astronaut interpretation offers a radically different suggestion: What if there were no animals on the ark

at all? What if Noah carried not living creatures but their genetic codes—DNA samples preserved in some form of ancient biotechnology? The "storehouses of nature" Enoch witnessed in heaven could have been a genetic archive. Perhaps Uriel provided Noah with the means to preserve life not in flesh but in code, to be reconstituted after the waters receded.

This would explain how Noah could possibly accomplish his mission. It would explain why later flood myths from other cultures describe similar salvation events but with different details. It would explain how genetic diversity was preserved despite the apparent bottleneck of the flood. And it would align with the technological interpretation of Enoch's heavenly journey.

But whether Noah loaded living animals or genetic samples, one thing is certain: he obeyed. Genesis records that "Noah did everything just as God commanded him" (Genesis 6:22). For decades—possibly a full century—Noah labored on a massive boat in a world that had never seen rain, in preparation for a flood that must have seemed like madness to his contemporaries.

The ancient rabbinical texts, collected in works like Midrash Rabbah and Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer, expand on this period. They describe Noah as a preacher of righteousness, warning his generation of the coming judgment. For 120 years he built and warned. For 120 years he was mocked. The people of his age saw the massive construction project and laughed. Rain? Flood? These were the ravings of a madman building a monument to delusion.

But God, in his justice, gave humanity every chance to repent. The very slowness of the ark's construction was an act of mercy—a long warning, a visible sign that judgment was coming and there was still time to turn back. But the warning was ignored.

The Floodgates Open

When the ark was complete and provisioned, when Noah's family had entered and the animals (or genetic samples) were secured, the door closed. Genesis specifies that "the Lord shut him in" (Genesis 7:16). Noah did not close the door himself. God sealed it—from the outside. There would be no second-guessing, no last-minute evacuations, no exceptions.

Then the cataclysm began:

"In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights" (Genesis 7:11-12).

This is not merely rain. The text describes two simultaneous catastrophes: the fountains of the great deep bursting open, and the floodgates of heaven opening. Water came from below and above. The earth itself ruptured, releasing subterranean reservoirs. The sky released torrents that had never fallen before.

The Book of Enoch adds this detail:

"And in those days the word of God came unto me, and He said unto me: 'Noah, thy lot has come Up before Me, a lot without blame, a lot of love and uprightness. And now the angels are making a wooden building, and when they have completed that task I will place My hand upon it and preserve it, and there shall come forth from it the seed of life, and a change shall set in so that the earth will not remain without inhabitant'" (Enoch 106:15-17).

Angels assisted in the construction. Divine hands preserved the vessel. This was not merely a natural disaster but a supernatural cleansing—a cosmic reset switch being pressed.

For forty days and nights, water poured from above. But that was only the beginning. Genesis records: "The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days" (Genesis 7:24). Five months of rising water. The ark lifted from its foundations and floated on the expanding ocean. Everything not aboard perished.

"Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died. Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; people and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark" (Genesis 7:22-23).

The Nephilim drowned. The corrupted humans drowned. The animals that had been twisted and cross-bred in unnatural ways—Genesis cryptically mentions that "all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth" (Genesis 6:12), perhaps implying genetic manipulation—all perished. The world was scoured clean.

The Universal Flood

For thousands of years, believers and skeptics debated whether the flood was global or local. The text of Genesis seems unambiguous—"all the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered" (Genesis 7:19)—but could this be hyperbole? Could it simply mean all the mountains visible to the author?

Modern geology initially rejected the idea of a worldwide flood. There's not enough water on earth to cover the highest mountains. Where would it come from? Where would it go? The fossil record doesn't show a single catastrophic flood layer. The distribution of species across continents makes no sense if all life originated from a boat landing in Turkey.

These objections seemed devastating. For generations, the flood narrative was relegated to myth, a moral story not meant to be taken literally.

But then the evidence began to mount.

Over 250 separate cultures around the world—civilizations that never had contact with each other—preserve flood myths. The details vary, but the core narrative remains consistent: A great flood destroyed the world. One man was warned by a divine being. He built a boat. He saved his family and animals. After the waters receded, he made landfall on a mountain. From him, humanity began again.

The Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh, dating to approximately 2100 BCE, tells of Utnapishtim, who is warned by the god Ea (Enki) of a coming flood sent by the god Enlil. He builds a massive boat, covers it with pitch, loads it with animals and precious resources, and survives seven days of deluge. When the waters subside, the boat lands on Mount Nisir. Utnapishtim releases birds to test for dry land, exactly as Noah does.

In Hindu scripture, the Matsya Purana tells of Manu, the first man, who saves a small fish from a larger predator. The fish grows enormous and reveals itself as an avatar of Vishnu. It warns Manu that a great flood will destroy the world in seven days. Manu builds a boat, and when the flood comes, the fish (now the size of a mountain) pulls the boat through the raging waters, ultimately securing it to a Himalayan peak. Manu emerges with the seven sages and the "seeds of life" to restart civilization.

The Native American Ojibway people tell of Nanabozho, who survives a great flood by floating on a log with various animals. When the waters recede, he sends birds to find land. Eventually, a muskrat dives deep and returns with a pawful of mud, from which Nanabozho recreates the earth.

Australian Aboriginal myths describe Tiddalik, a giant frog who drank all the world's water, causing drought. When the other animals made him laugh, he released the water in a catastrophic flood. Survivors escaped in boats or by climbing to high ground.

In Chinese mythology, the Great Flood of Gun-Yu required divine intervention to control, spanning generations and reshaping the landscape of ancient China.

Inca tradition speaks of Viracocha, who sent a great flood to destroy the giants who had disobeyed him, preserving only two humans at Lake Titicaca to repopulate the earth.

These aren't just similar stories—they're the same story, told through different cultural lenses. For centuries this was dismissed as coincidence or as evidence that flood myths naturally arise in cultures living near rivers. But that explanation fails to account for the specificity of the details: divine warning, boat construction, animal salvation, mountaintop landing, bird release, new beginning.

The Geological Evidence

In the late 20th century, something changed. Geologists studying the end of the last Ice Age—approximately 11,600 years ago, a period known as the Younger Dryas-Holocene transition—discovered evidence of catastrophic flooding on a scale that beggars imagination.

When the Laurentide ice sheet covering North America began to collapse, it released water equivalent to all five Great Lakes combined—but released suddenly, over a period of weeks or months rather than millennia. The Mediterranean basin flooded. The Black Sea transformed from a freshwater lake 260 feet lower than its current level into a saltwater sea, with seawater pouring over a natural dam in the Bosporus Strait at 200 times the flow rate of Niagara Falls. This event, dated to approximately 5600 BCE, matches the timeline of early Mesopotamian flood traditions.

But the Black Sea deluge was just one regional event. Evidence suggests the flooding was global.

Geologists examining North African topography found "high water marks" etched into mountainsides at elevations over 1,000 feet—evidence of massive tsunamis that swept across entire continents. Sediment cores from around the world show disruption layers dated to the end of the Younger Dryas. Megalithic structures off the coasts of India, Japan, and the Mediterranean suggest advanced coastal civilizations were submerged when sea levels rose by hundreds of feet in a geologically instantaneous event.

The cause remains debated. Some researchers propose a comet impact or airburst over the ice sheets, causing rapid melting. Graham Hancock and others have suggested a series of impacts from a fragmented comet. Randall Carlson has documented massive flood channels in Washington State—the Channeled Scablands—carved by water flows that dwarf any modern river, evidence of catastrophic flooding when glacial dams failed.

Another theory, gaining traction, suggests a massive solar event—a coronal mass ejection or superflare—struck Earth, melting ice caps globally and simultaneously. This would explain why flood myths exist on every continent. It would explain the sudden rise in sea levels. It would explain the extinction of megafauna and the collapse of early human civilizations. And it would explain the universal fear, embedded in human mythology, of destruction from the sky.

Whatever the cause, the evidence is clear: approximately 11,000-12,000 years ago, the Earth experienced a cataclysm. Sea levels rose catastrophically. Coastal populations were devastated. Entire civilizations vanished beneath the waves. And the survivors—scattered groups of humans clinging to mountaintops and high ground—remembered. They told their children. Their children told their children. And the story was passed down through oral tradition until it was finally written into the sacred texts of every major culture on Earth.

Many Arks, Many Noahs

This raises a provocative possibility: What if there wasn't just one Noah? What if there were many?

If the flood was global, and if warnings came to multiple locations (whether through divine intervention, alien contact, or advanced knowledge held by pre-flood civilizations), then perhaps many groups built boats. Perhaps many families survived. Perhaps Noah is not a single individual but a representative figure—one of many flood survivors whose story was preserved most completely in the Middle Eastern tradition.

This would explain the genetic diversity of post-flood humanity. It would explain how different racial groups could emerge from a single family in just a few thousand years. It would explain the distribution of species across continents. And it would explain why flood myths exist everywhere: because survivors existed everywhere.

The biblical Noah might have been the survivor whose descendants became the Semitic peoples of Mesopotamia. Manu was the survivor who fathered the Indo-Aryan peoples. Nanabozho preserved Native American lineages. Other unnamed survivors repopulated Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Australia.

Or perhaps—and this is the traditional biblical interpretation—there truly was only one ark, and from Noah's three sons (Shem, Ham, and Japheth) all humanity descended. The Table of Nations in Genesis 10 attempts to trace all ethnic groups back to these three men. Shem fathered the Semitic peoples (Jews, Arabs, Assyrians). Ham fathered the African and some Middle Eastern peoples. Japheth fathered the Indo-European peoples (Europeans, Persians, Indians).

But whether there were many arks or one, the question remains: Where did it land? Where is the physical evidence of this vessel that carried life through the apocalypse?

The Mountains of Ararat

Genesis provides the clue:

"The waters kept receding steadily from the earth, so that they had gone down by the end of the 150 days. On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on one of the mountains of Ararat" (Genesis 8:3-4).

Note the plural: mountains of Ararat, not Mount Ararat. The text doesn't specify a single peak but a mountain range. Historians and biblical scholars agree that Ararat is the Hebrew name for Urartu, an Iron Age kingdom centered around Lake Van in eastern Anatolia. This places the landing site in the mountainous region of eastern Turkey, near the modern borders of Armenia, Iran, and Azerbaijan.

The traditional identification with Mount Ararat—the massive volcanic peak dominating the region at 16,854 feet—is likely incorrect. Mount Ararat has erupted several times since antiquity, most recently in 1840. Geologists believe it's a relatively young mountain and may not have existed in its current form during the time of Noah. Any ark landing on its slopes would have been destroyed or buried by subsequent volcanic activity.

The mountains of Ararat, by contrast, include hundreds of peaks and valleys. Somewhere in this vast range, if the ark survived at all, it would have come to rest.

Noah and his family remained in the ark for over a year—not just the forty days of rain, but the five months of rising water plus another seven months waiting for the ground to dry. Genesis 8:14 records: "By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry." From the start of the flood to the exit from the ark: one full year and ten days.

When they finally emerged, Noah's first act was to build an altar and offer sacrifices—burnt offerings from every clean animal and bird. The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and made a covenant: "Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done" (Genesis 8:21).

God placed a rainbow in the sky as a sign of this covenant. Some ancient Jewish commentators suggested this was the first rainbow ever seen—that before the flood, rain had never fallen, and earth was watered by mist and springs. Whether literal or symbolic, the rainbow became the eternal reminder that despite human wickedness, despite the evil inclinations of the human heart, God would never again destroy the earth with flood.