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The Corpse Came Back — After the Flood

A Forgotten World was the subtitle for The Killing of Paradise Planet, Book One of this series — an apt term for the Mother Civilisation that vanished so completely we thought it never existed: a once-global paradise with a temperature-controlled climate, an idyllic landscape, and long-lived human giants, a super-culture ready to wipe itself out. That was the world before the Great Flood of 2345 BC. In Book Two, Surprise Witness, we saw the cosmic calamity that intervened, ripping the crust of the earth to shreds as a Great Flood swept the whole planet, wiping the Mother Civilisation from the face of the earth and destroying its technological achievements along with it.

Now, in The Corpse Came Back! you will experience the fascinating story of the earth settling down after the Flood, and its effect upon human history — cities swallowed by the sea, the rapid birth of the Grand Canyon, a seaport that climbed a mountain range, a mummy that came up with a volcano — missing pieces of a puzzle that shatter our preconceptions of the history of man. It begins with the handful of refugees on board the survival vessel — the ship of Noah — and their journey into the unknown, new world.

Survival Vessel Lands — Nervous Wait

Nobody slept that night. Inside the vessel, four couples sat listening as the wind shrieked and rain crashed outside. A mass hysteria had seized the once-mocking crowd — frantic banging, concerted pushing on the door: "Please, oh please! Let us in!" Sleep? How could they? Out there in the mob were neighbours, relatives.

By Day 11 the storm continued unabated, the water lifting the massive vessel from its protective earth ramparts, ready for the cables to be cut. By Day 16, all hell was raging outside, and those inside could not escape the screams of the drowning — with still a year ahead of them, each of the eight locked in with thousands of animals. Four married couples were set to go through this ordeal: the senior pair to manage, the other three to multiply once it was all over. From their descendants all the nations of the earth would spring — including that "nobody" called Mrs Noah, named Naamah according to the Book of Jasher, who must have been one of the greatest women who ever lived. She was more than the woman behind a great man; ultimately, she's your mother and mine.

For 40 days the Flood waters rose, covering the highest mountains, and for a further 110 days the tempest continued unabated. "And the ark went upon the face of the waters." Violent land movements raged around the vessel, the wild and incessant thundering carried through the hull. But inside this stronghold existed another world all its own, floundering on swirling currents, sheltering eight people and representative animal life.

Onboard Facilities

There are clues that the Ark was equipped with ingenious facilities for survival, and perhaps comfort as well. The Flood survivors preserved with them sufficient knowledge of the pre-Flood world to give a rapid start to the new civilisations that sprang up soon after — cultures such as Sumeria, Egypt, and the Indus Valley appearing fully developed with no transition from a primitive state. Such almost "instant" civilisations are inexplicable unless they inherited their culture from a prior civilisation — the world wiped out in the Flood. In ancient ruins today we find evidence of quality carpets, metallic wallpaper, flush toilets, hot and cold water on tap, air conditioning, and electricity — a thousand fascinating clues catalogued in my book Dead Men's Secrets.

It is unthinkable that during the year-long semi-darkness of the Deluge only the top deck was bathed in light — ancient traditions assert that a light source powered by some form of electricity illuminated the Ark. A well-preserved ancient document, the Agastya Samshita, now in the Prince's Library of Ujjain in India, contains information on constructing an electric battery and using it to split water into hydrogen and oxygen — technology which would have solved the problems of water supply, animal feeding, waste disposal, and record-keeping on the long journey into the unknown.

The voyagers almost certainly took on board a range of scientific and historical information from the vanished world. The Assyrian king Assurbanipal, founder of the great library of Nineveh, referred to "the inscriptions of the time before the Flood," writing that he loved to read them and had them translated. In 1950, during preparations for an expedition to Mount Ararat, a Dr Philip W. Gooch claimed his Masonic Order held the diary of Amoela, wife of Noah's son Japheth and a student of Methuselah — placed in her mummified hands upon her death and later discovered by a high-ranking Mason in the late 19th century. It has been impossible to authenticate this claim, since Gooch died shortly after making it.

The Nervous Wait

"And when the storm came to an end and terrible waterspouts ceased, I opened the windows and the light smote upon my face; I looked at the sea, tentatively observing, all humanity had turned to mud, and like seaweed the corpses floated. I sat down and wept, and the tears fell upon my face."

After 150 days, the drogue stones struck submerged ground and the Ark came to rest for 74 days, Noah watching the tidal swells. A small piece of land appeared, rekindling hope. Six weeks later he sent out a raven, which found the land still submerged and returned. A dove sent out weekly came back the second time covered in mud with a newly sprouted olive leaf — and on the third occasion failed to return, a sign there was at last dry land with vegetal regrowth.

Danger Point and Grounding

Noah realised he could not moor much longer — the current of run-off was becoming a raging torrent, and unless they acted quickly they could be dragged perilously back to the sea. On what would be his birthday, at high water slack, he gave the order to cut the lines. The Ark moved southeastward on the incoming current and finally grounded high up in a semi-circle of small hills, protected from the tidal waves still rushing back and forth. "And behold, the face of the ground was dry!" Still, Noah waited another couple of months for the ground to dry at deeper levels and for vegetation to re-establish. Just 377 days after they entered the vessel, the Noah family stepped out — the Flood waters had covered the earth for just over a year.

Summary of the Ark's Log Book

Day 1: the Flood begins. Day 40: maximum water height reached. Day 150: abatement begins. Day 224: first land seen. Day 264: the raven sent out. Day 271-285: the dove sent out three times, returning the second time with an olive leaf and failing to return the third. Day 314: the ground is dry. Day 370: they leave the Ark, 377 days after first embarking.

What They Saw

The eight survivors left their shelter to enter a world of intensely red sunsets and blue and green moons — optical effects of volcanic dust. Just months before, the Ark door had closed on a world of almost perfect beauty; now it slid back on desolation. "Their eyes searched for the plains and the hills, the rivers and lakes. The truth was terrible; the destruction was awful." Hills had disappeared without trace, forests were gone, and the soil that remained was leached and infertile — it would take centuries to rebuild. The air was miserable, freezing, and wet, with volcanic smoke causing an intense half-darkness that would prevail for decades. Yet all was not bleak: waterfalls, dramatic landscapes, sunken valleys, pinnacles, rainbows, and wild sunsets were things of stark beauty. Creation still hadn't lost its grandeur.

The Plan in the Deluge

The destruction was accomplished in such a way as to prepare a more suitable home for a degenerating human race — the first world had been too rich and bounteous for a fallen humanity, so it was refitted, riches hidden beneath the surface and a stubborn soil now needing to be worked by hard sweat. Exploring parties would later discover that the tilting of the earth's axis had brought a sudden change in the relation of the earth to the sun, creating climatic zones and terrific extremes of heat and cold — a factor that has likely contributed to the stunted, degenerated appearance of modern flora and fauna compared to their fossil forms. Arctic lands, for example, were denuded not by ice, as commonly assumed, but by the onrushing floodwaters themselves.

Rainbow

The Noahs wasted no time constructing an altar to express gratitude for divine protection during the year-long Deluge — for "God remembered Noah, and the beasts, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark." They received assurance the earth would never again be destroyed by such a Flood, and a rainbow arching over the slopes became a striking token of this promise — a totally new phenomenon, since before the Deluge the sky's invisible water vapour could not refract and separate the visible light spectrum.

As the human family spread across the earth, the memory of the rainbow as a new phenomenon was told and retold — in Hawaii, where Kane the great god left it behind as a token of forgiveness after sparing Nu-u and his family; among the Chibchas of Colombia, whose god Bochicha appeared seated on a rainbow to end the Deluge; and, as researcher Harold Wilkins observed, in the Genesis account, the Babylonian Gilgamesh tablets, and the traditions of the Incas alike — all insisting that after the Great Catastrophe, something was seen in earth's skies that had not been there before.

Eight Survivors, and the Name "Noah"

The memory of eight human survivors persisted across widely separated cultures. In Mexico, an old Toltec myth tells of 8 men escaping a world-drowning flood in a floating house; in Australia, Aboriginal tradition tells of a rainbow serpent carrying 8 people to safety; in India, Manu the father of the human race took seven others aboard his ship; and in China, the ancient character for "ship" is composed of the pictures for "boat" and "8 mouths" — perhaps the origin of 8 being considered the Chinese "lucky" number.

More remarkable still, the name of the Flood survivor crops up almost unchanged across widely separated peoples — Nu-u in Hawaii, Nuh in the Sudan, Noa in the Amazon, Noe in Phrygia, Noh among the African Hottentots, and Ma-nu in India. In China, the ancestor Nu-Wah survived a world-destroying flood and accomplished its reconstruction. And in Venezuela's Sierra Parima, there is reported to be a dead city called Ma Noe — "the waters of Noah."

"The waters of Noah." Now that raises a question. If the water was so high over all the land, and now it's not — then whatever happened to all that water? Where has it gone? Would you like to know? Let's find out, and discover much more in The Corpse Came Back.

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