1 Enoch · Book of the Watchers
Angelic descent, disclosed arts, violence, judgment, and the warning to Noah.
- 1 Enoch · Book of the Watchers — Chapters 6–16
WHEN HEAVEN WAS NEAR
The Record
Wonder does not require the abandonment of rigor. Every source has a history. Every resemblance has a limit. Every conclusion must remain proportionate to its evidence.
Hesiod · Works and Days
The recovery of hidden fire and the punitive response of Zeus.
- Hesiod · Works and Days — Lines 42–105
Gilgamesh · Tablet XI
A warning through a reed wall, a constructed vessel, surviving life, birds, and divine disagreement.
- Gilgamesh · Tablet XI — Tablet XI, especially lines 8–31, 81–96, 133–196
The Flood Tablet · K.3375
Catalog record for a surviving clay witness to Gilgamesh Tablet XI.
- The Flood Tablet · K.3375 — Museum number K.3375; Neo-Assyrian, seventh century BCE
Genesis · Chapter 6
The sons of God passage and the command to Noah to build an ark.
- Genesis · Chapter 6 — Genesis 6:1–22
Genesis · Chapter 8
Receding waters, birds, departure from the ark, and sacrifice.
- Genesis · Chapter 8 — Genesis 8:1–22
Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa · Manu and the fish
Manu protects a fish; the fish warns him of a flood and guides his ship to a mountain.
- Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa · Manu and the fish — 1.8.1.1–10
Völuspá · The seeress’s prophecy
Yggdrasil, the well, the Norns, destruction, and a renewed earth.
- Völuspá · The seeress’s prophecy — Stanzas 19–20, 47, 57–59
Ṛg Veda · Puruṣa Sūkta
Sacrifice and a cosmic person organize correspondences among world, ritual, beings, and social orders.
- Ṛg Veda · Puruṣa Sūkta — 10.90, especially verses 6–14
Popol Vuh · The wooden effigies
A failed creation forgets its makers and faces destruction; household objects and animals also turn against it.
- Popol Vuh · The wooden effigies — Printed pages 69–74; The Fall of the Effigies of Carved Wood
Tracking 30 Years of Sea Level Rise
A modern, measured environmental record provides a contrast to narrative time.
- Tracking 30 Years of Sea Level Rise — Satellite record since 1992