The fullest account we have of Oannes is found in surviving fragments of the works of a Babylonian priest called Berossos who wrote in the third century BC. [...] Oannes did not do his work alone but...
Sumerian myths and legends of the antediluvian world do much more than speak of the five cities. They also tell an extraordinary story of how their ancestors, who lived in the 'most ancient times', we...
Another extraordinary similarity concerns the presence of Seven Sages in both the Sumerian and Vedic traditions. Most ancient societies, I concede, had their sages or seers or wise men -- in India the...
Legends speak of a primeval Pacific homeland called Hiva from which the first inhabitants of Easter Island came--a homeland that also fell victim to the mischief of Uoke's lever and was submerged unde...
The Sanskrit texts make it clear that a cataclysm on this scale, though a relatively rare event, is expected to wash away of the former world and that the slate will be wiped clean again for the new...