101 Myths of the Bible: how ancient scribes - Conscious Evolution TV

yth #32:
God sent a flood to destroy mankind.
The Myth: The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with
violence. And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had
corrupted his way upon the earth. And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is
come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will
destroy them with the earth. (Gen. 6:11–13)
The Reality: The story of Noah and the flood originated as a monotheistic version
of the Hermopolitan Creation myth and presented an expanded account of
events on the first day of Creation.
In the Hermopolitan Creation myth, four males and four females emerged from
the primeval flood and crawled onto the first land. These four males and four females,
known as the Ogdoad (i.e., group of eight) collectively gave birth to Re, the Hermopolitan
Creator deity, who floated on a lotus while the benben bird flew above.
The four male deities were Nun, Huh, Kuk, and Amen, who represented the four
primary elements of the universe before Creation, but in some texts other deities were
substituted. Nun signified the primeval flood and Egyptians usually portrayed him in
anthropomorphic form, standing waist-high in the primeval waters and holding aloft
the solar boat that carried other deities.
In the story of Noah, too, four males and four females emerged from a worldwide
flood after a mountain arose out of the waters, during which time a sole child may have
been born (see Myth #33) with some interesting questions about who his parents
were. It also includes the appearance of birds, one of which behaves differently than the
others (see Myth #34). In addition, the names of Noah and his three sons closely
resemble names associated with the Egyptian Creation cycle.
In old biblical Hebrew, the name “Noah” (which should be transliterated as
“Noach”) consists of only two letters“Nun” and“Ched.” We don’t know what the original
vowels were because old Hebrew text did not use vowels. The present assignment
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