![]() ![]() ![]() The Iranian Avesta texts tell of the thousand-year Golden Reign of Yima, the first man and the first king, under whose rule cold and heat, old age, death and sickness were unknown. Babylonian mythology, as reported by Berossos, had a scheme of three ages, each lasting while the vernal equinox precessed through four signs of the zodiac the first of these, under the dominion of Anu, was a Golden Age, ended by the Flood. The Egyptians spoke of past epochs ruled by god-kings. But in the ancient Middle East there is an obvious relic of the Golden Age in Genesis, as the Garden of Eden where humanity walked with the gods before the Fall. Nor does the philosophy of Buddhism have any place for nostalgia, although in practice it absorbed the idea of declining ages from its Indian surroundings. In the Americas, the most fully developed mythologies of history were those of the Maya and Aztecs, for whom there was no past era unclouded by the threat of cyclical destruction by fire or flood. The memory or imagination of a Golden Age seems to be a particularity of the cultures that cover the area from India to Northern Europe. Joscelyn Godwin in Arktos: The Polar Myth (Adventures Unlimited Press, 1996) explains: It was a primordial paradise where time had no meaning. The Myth of the Golden Age: a period when the Pole was “oriented” differently when the seasons were different the year was different. The Wave Chapter 3: Dorothy and The Frog Prince Meet Flight 19 in Oz or, “I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore!” ![]()
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