I have already posted at length
on the physical reality underlying the story of Noah which appears to be a
report on the establishment of Bronze Age agriculture in the Middle
East .
I surmised a much earlier date
but the date that fits best is around five thousand years ago. I avoid a lot of slow plodding development by
doing that.
Now I am looking here at a report
on the Yellow Emperor who is suddenly informed enough to invent modern
agriculture and all the baggage of a working agricultural society in his own lifetime. No where does he actually take credit for any
of it. Even more important, he is
rewarded along with a bunch of his close associates with a pleasant exit as
uncanny as Noah’s landing in the Ark.
Yet the nature of Chinese writing
goes a long way to preserving this text in its original sense, unlike that of
Noah. One had to have specific insight
to understand the import of the Noah story while this plainly spells it out.
The Yellow emperor trained ten
thousand to carry on. That was a town
and large farming district by itself.
We can safely presume that this colonizing
activity was carried on in a number of locales world wide around five thousand
years ago. We know specifically of the Mesopotamian
foundation and the Yellow river
foundation. It is safe to presume we
will eventually understand similar foundations in Peru ,Amazonia,Mayaland ,Libya ,
and the Indus at least.
I had accepted early agriculture
as having it origins world wide at around six specific locales around ten
thousand years ago. Plausibly it did but
this did not lead to any form of significant urbanization that was any thing
other than naturally stagnant. The real
global eruption came with the advent of a Bronze Age tool kit and the natural
need for sea borne trade.
Having a kick start on metals
would make sound sense.
Way more important, we can
pinpoint the date of this global launch from the twenty sixth century BC and
this also gives us a prospective live date for Noah’s life. Observe the unusual lifespan of Yellow
Emperor! It is claimed that from the
landing, that Noah and his immediate family all lived for most of five
centuries. At this point, the supply of
joy juice obviously ran out and lifespans collapse. This takes us nicely to around 2000 BC and
well into the global Bronze Age. The remaining
biblical chronology does dovetail into the next thousand years rather handily until
we come to the establishment of Israel
before the turn of the next millennia.
What this leaves out is the issue
of Sumer
whose agricultural beginnings date two thousand years earlier. The long lives of Noah’s predecessors make short
work of all that and is even supported by the amazing apparent stability of
that civilization.
All this speculation is merely
raising way more questions than can be answered and would need way more data
than we will ever have. It is still good
fun at least. Rewrite the Noah story by
replacing the word Ark
with Yellow Dragon and we have the same story.
As we posted before, the real
flood took place 11,000 to 13,000 years ago and the ocean rose at least three
hundred feet. Temperate agriculture
became possible and began almost immediately as the human population
recovered. Thus informed agriculture
began in hospitable locales no later than ten thousand years ago. Organized agriculture based on irrigation
appeared seven thousand years ago and antique civilizations rose in many places.
The Bronze Age began around five
thousand years ago and swiftly opened sea transport and global trade. The dominant power then was Atlantean civilization
which was a palace organized trade factory system not unlike the early European
advent in Asia .
The Yellow Emperor, Ancestor of Chinese Civilization
By David Wu
The Yellow Emperor. Illustrated by Blue Hsiao, Epoch Times Staff.
According to Chinese legend, the Yellow Emperor (B.C. 2698 – B.C. 2598)
led the Chinese civilization from barbarism to civilization. Chinese people
regard him as the ancestor of Chinese civilization.
After Shen Nong the Yellow Emperor took responsibility for keeping
stability for the whole territory. He led people to settle in the Yellow River
Basin and changed their way of life from
hunting to building houses, raising livestock, and planting crops.
During the Yellow Emperor’s reign, society was stable and culture was
enriched. There were many inventions including boats, wagons, weapons,
written language, music, the calendar, clothes, medicine, arithmetic,
pottery, silk production, the compass, and royal dwellings. Chinese people
regard the time of the Yellow Emperor as the foundation of Chinese
civilization. The several emperors following the Yellow Emperor, such as Yao , Shun, Yu, and Tang
were all his descendants.
There were many legends about how the Yellow Emperor pursued the Dao.
Historian Sima Qian in his "Historical Records" wrote that the Yellow
Emperor got a precious cauldron and divine guidance and regarded the Yellow
Emperor as a practitioner of complete enlightenment.
According to legend, after successfully achieving enlightenment, he
governed his state while also practicing alchemy and meditation. In 2598
B.C., the Yellow Emperor cast a large tripod at the foot of Mountain Bridge .
As soon as the tripod was cast, Heaven opened, and the Yellow Dragon came
down from Heaven to welcome him. At the time, the Yellow Emperor rode on the
Yellow Dragon together with more than seventy officials—they rose up to heaven
in broad daylight, having successfully achieved enlightenment.
Ten thousand people personally witnessed this spectacular holy scene.
Those officials who did not catch up with the Yellow Emperor, with deep
gratefulness, buried the clothes of the Yellow Emperor at the Mountain Bridge .
That is what is buried at the monument to the Yellow Emperor in Huangling County , Shaanxi
Province today.
The legend was told from generation to generation and Chinese people
came to believe that at the end of a successful life, a person will rise up to
Heaven. In this way, they believed their ancestors also returned to Heaven and
were taken good care of. That is why the Chinese worship their ancestors at
special events or festivals and in some cases they build ancestral shrines to
worship together. "Respectful worship" of ancestors became a major
feature of Chinese culture.
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