When people talk about what was happening from Adam to Noah, in a more historical reading, most will see that humans were more advanced at that point, or had been more advanced, than a hunter gatherer society. We may have the wrong impression about the history of mankind. We are not necessarily evolving into more intelligence. The ancients viewed the story of mankind differently than we do today. We as modern humans view ourselves as the pinnacle of mankind. The zenith.

Those who came before us are viewed as barbarians back to the Neanderthal. That is a modern perspective of humanization and human knowledge. As if the further you go back in time, the less knowledge and understanding. In fact, the ancients had a different view. They believed that the further you went back in time, the more extraordinary the human species became. Something happened that caused us to lose the knowledge, wisdom, technology, and civilization of that ancient world. What cataclysm brought the world to a sudden ruin?

The ancients described this period of time before cataclysm, The Golden Age. The Egyptians referred to it as Zip Tepe, which means the first time. Cultures around the world, have their own unique reference to this time before the cataclysm. I will go with the Greek name, The Golden Age.

The Golden Age was remarkable for many reasons, but one thing that distinguished about all other ages of mankind is that it during the age, the gods dwelt among mankind, and imparted their knowledge to them and civilized them. The gods taught them the Seven Sacred Sciences. The notion is that there was a time in which the gods dwelt openly among men and imparted their knowledge, and even copulated with human women to produce a hybrid race of demigods. This is ubiquitous and found in all cultures and legends around the world.

Every culture has a mythos related to The Golden Age. It was believed that this was the height of human civilization. Mankind had reached its pinnacle during the Golden Age. The ancients looked back with longing to the time when mankind was exceedingly civilized. When men had technology, then, they were able to traverse the skies, build megalith, until a great war followed by a cataclysm destroyed their world. We might say it destroyed the Empire of the gods

We as modern humans see ourselves as the pinnacle and look forward to a progression, whereas, the ancients did not view themselves as the pinnacle, but looked back to a time before a great war and before the great cataclysm. They looked with longing to the time, when the gods were dwelling with men. Hebraic text relates the same story but cryptically. It is veiled and cryptic because the account is told not in the canonized scripture but elsewhere. There's only one Orthodox church that has the Book of Enoch in their canonized scripture and that is the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. But there are ancient Hebraic accounts of The Golden Age that exist, and were extremely important to their cosmology, and which formed their worldview of the Hebrew people.

What makes the Hebrew account so different from the rest of The Golden Age stories all over the world is that the Hebrew view of The Golden Age is the antithesis view. They believed it was a time when the gods were rebels against Yahweh, and were committing an act of sedition against Yahweh. These gods descended to Earth and began to wreak havoc. It may not have seemed like havoc in the beginning. But when they begin to transgress on the Earth, Genesis 6:1-4 says that giants/Nephilim were born. So, the Golden Age exists in Hebrew view, it's just the antithesis of what all other cultures say about it. These are not necessarily my view. This is what I am studying for the Fallen Race Trilogy.

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