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> Ahi , the serpent demon who captured Apas, the water goddess > ahi froze the waters As for the serpent motive, I think it relates to the movement and shape o

by xaedes 5y ago

> Ahi , the serpent demon who captured Apas, the water goddess > ahi froze the waters As for the serpent motive, I think it relates to the movement and shape of glaciers. Here are some pictures. Snake-like path of a swiss glacier: [1] The end of a glacier which (with skimming) may look like a snake head releasing streams of melt water: [2] In these ~110 year old illustrations glaciers are depicted with weird lion head and sluggish lizard body: [3] Ahi seems to be Azi Dahâka in Zoroastrianism, which also has a lot of long-winter themes [4]: "The world was imagined as lasting a long year of twelve millenniums. There had been an old myth, connected with that notion, which made the world end in a frightful winter, to be succeeded by an eternal spring, when the blessed would come down from the Vara of Yima to repeople the earth. But as storm was the ordinary and more dramatic form of the strife, there was another version, according to which the world ended in a storm, and this version became the definitive one. The serpent, Azi Dahâka, let loose, takes hold of the world again. As the temporary disappearance of the light was often mythically described either as the sleeping of the god, or as his absence, or death [...]" This story about the Vara is also super interesting and similar to the Ark story, though not with a big flood but a long winter and "foul frost". The numbers make more sense, because they gather over a thousand "seeds of men and women" instead of only a single family. [5] [1] https://www.swisseduc.ch/glaciers/glossary/valley-glacier-en.html https://www.swisseduc.ch/glaciers/glossary/valley-glacier-en... [2] https://i.ytimg.com/vi/CTPcUSfYG3c/maxresdefault.jpg https://i.ytimg.com/vi/CTPcUSfYG3c/maxresdefault.jpg [3] https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2018/04/02/culture-history-glaciers-alps/ https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2018/04/02/culture-history... [4] https://www.sacred-texts.com/zor/sbe04/sbe0405.htm https://www.sacred-texts.com/zor/sbe04/sbe0405.htm [5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29802590 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29802590

jelliclesfarm 5y ago
[..] This story about the Vara is also super interesting and similar to the Ark story, though not with a big flood but a long winter and "foul frost". The numbers make more sense, because they gather over a thousand "seeds of men and women" instead of only a single family.[..] Thank you. The links are very helpful. The flood myth in Vedic Hindu mythology is called Pralaya..the Great Dissolution. [..] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pralaya https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pralaya https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuga_Cycle https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuga_Cycle [..] A Yuga Cycle (a.k.a. chatur yuga, maha yuga, etc.) is a cyclic age (epoch) in Hindu cosmology. Each cycle lasts for 4,320,000 years (12,000 divine years[a]) and repeats four yugas (world ages): Krita (Satya) Yuga, Treta Yuga, Dvapara Yuga, and Kali Yuga. As a Yuga Cycle progresses through the four yugas, each yuga's length and humanity's general moral and physical state within each yuga decrease by one-fourth. Kali Yuga, which lasts for 432,000 years, is believed to have started in 3102 BCE. Near the end of Kali Yuga, when virtues are at their worst, a cataclysm and a re-establishment of dharma occur to usher in the next cycle's Satya Yuga, prophesied to occur by Kalki. There are 71 Yuga Cycles in a manvantara (age of Manu) and 1,000 Yuga Cycles in a kalpa (day of Brahma).[..] At the end of the 4 ages, Seven Sages will save the Vedas to pass it on to the next edition of the universe. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saptarishi https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saptarishi : [..] At the end of every four ages there is a disappearance of the Vedas and it is the province of the seven Rishis to come down upon earth from heaven to give them currency.[..] All other life and the universe is Maya or illusion. Even the Gods are gone. They too were part of the illusion. Only Brahman remains. This formless attributeless universal consciousness will restart creation after every great dissolution. Everything is part of Brahman and Brahman is part of everything. This cycle of creation and dissolution is endless.

by xaedes 5y ago

jelliclesfarm 5y ago

[..] This story about the Vara is also super interesting and similar to the Ark story, though not with a big flood but a long winter and "foul frost". The numbers make more sense, because they gather over a thousand "seeds of men and women" instead of only a single family.[..] Thank you. The links are very helpful. The flood myth in Vedic Hindu mythology is called Pralaya..the Great Dissolution. [..] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pralaya https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pralaya https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuga_Cycle https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuga_Cycle [..] A Yuga Cycle (a.k.a. chatur yuga, maha yuga, etc.) is a cyclic age (epoch) in Hindu cosmology. Each cycle lasts for 4,320,000 years (12,000 divine years[a]) and repeats four yugas (world ages): Krita (Satya) Yuga, Treta Yuga, Dvapara Yuga, and Kali Yuga. As a Yuga Cycle progresses through the four yugas, each yuga's length and humanity's general moral and physical state within each yuga decrease by one-fourth. Kali Yuga, which lasts for 432,000 years, is believed to have started in 3102 BCE. Near the end of Kali Yuga, when virtues are at their worst, a cataclysm and a re-establishment of dharma occur to usher in the next cycle's Satya Yuga, prophesied to occur by Kalki. There are 71 Yuga Cycles in a manvantara (age of Manu) and 1,000 Yuga Cycles in a kalpa (day of Brahma).[..] At the end of the 4 ages, Seven Sages will save the Vedas to pass it on to the next edition of the universe. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saptarishi https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saptarishi : [..] At the end of every four ages there is a disappearance of the Vedas and it is the province of the seven Rishis to come down upon earth from heaven to give them currency.[..] All other life and the universe is Maya or illusion. Even the Gods are gone. They too were part of the illusion. Only Brahman remains. This formless attributeless universal consciousness will restart creation after every great dissolution. Everything is part of Brahman and Brahman is part of everything. This cycle of creation and dissolution is endless.