5 Ancient Cultures Recorded the SAME Catastrophe - And None of Them Ever Met | History for Sleep

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What if five ancient cultures, scattered across the planet and
separated by oceans, all remembered the same world-ending
catastrophe?





In this History for Sleep episode from Sleepy Time Mystery, we
drift through the flood myths of Mesopotamia, the Hebrew Bible,
ancient Greece, India, and Mesoamerica. From Ziusudra and
Utnapishtim to Noah, Deucalion, Manu, and the Maya and Aztec ages
of destruction, we compare how these civilizations described a
global disaster they should never have shared.





Discover overlapping patterns in ancient flood myths, examine
archaeological clues, and explore careful theories about the real
events that might sit behind these stories. Perfect as a calm,
slow-paced documentary-style narration to fall asleep to, or to
enjoy as relaxing background history.





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Sources:


- The Epic of Gilgamesh (translated by Andrew George)


- Atrahasis: The Babylonian Story of the Flood (translated by W.
G. Lambert and A. R. Millard)


- Genesis 1–11: A Continental Commentary (Erich Zenger, ed.;
section author for Gen 1–11: Thomas Römer)


- Metamorphoses (Ovid; translated by A. D. Melville)


- The Mahabharata, Book 3 (Vana Parva): Manu–Matsya flood episode
(translated by J. A. B. van Buitenen)


- Popol Vuh: The Definitive Edition of The Mayan Book of the Dawn
of Life and the Glories of Gods and Kings (translated by Dennis
Tedlock)





00:00 Mesopotamia’s Flood: Ziusudra, Atrahasis, and Utnapishtim


10:57 The Hebrew Bible’s Deluge: Noah and the Re-Creation of the
World


22:13 Greece’s Great Flood: Deucalion, Pyrrha, and the Stones
That Became People


37:30 India’s Flood in the Matsya Myth: Manu and the Fish That
Warned Him


49:11 Mesoamerica’s World-Ending Flood: The Maya and Aztec ‘Suns’
of Destruction





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