The Genesis Site - Peace

Genesis 11

The period between the flood and the disaster of Babel was a relative short time. Biblical counting gives roughly one century. These are the years from Arpachshad, born two years after the flood, to Peleg, in whose days the earth was divided. But these one hundred years were enough to live on in mankinds memory till today. Like a paradise lost.
Let's face a few examples about this subject. Indeed, mankind knows this period as a time of peace and unity as told in Genesis 11.

On Samoa people lived together in peace in and around a tree. The branches of this tree are growing to the extreme north and the extreme south.
The Hopi tribes of Arizona as well as the Egyptians in Africa remember how man once lived together in peace. The Bataks on Sumatra are telling how man and gods once could meet each other on a mountain. Peace was disturbed when man payed attention to other gods. The Chin people in Asia know how they once lived in one village and with one speach.

Walam Olum is the holy book of the Delaware tribe in the eastern US. In this book they tell in their own way about a creation, the coming of a snake and about the flood. After the flood, so they say, man lived close together and things were going well. A time of divorce and leaving came when weather conditions changed dramaticly.

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