Share This:. About the author. Prev Next. Leave a Reply Cancel Reply. Books by Dr. Armstrong order my books at. Follow Me On:. This fourth empire will later be divided, however, and end up as the feet and toes that are partly clay and partly iron. These empires have been interpreted in a variety of ways.
This is explained as the meaning of the stone cut from the mountain without hands, that smashes the idol to pieces. The Aztec tradition of Five Suns also involves four previous ages. The term Five Suns in the context of creation myths, describes the doctrine of the Aztec and other Nahua peoples , supported amply by ancient texts and calendars, in which the present world was preceded by four other cycles of creation and destruction.
It is primarily derived from the mythological, cosmological and eschatological beliefs and traditions of earlier cultures from central Mexico and the Mesoamerican region in general. The Late Postclassic Aztec society inherited many traditions concerning Mesoamerican creation accounts , while however modifying some aspects and supplying novel interpretations of their own.
According to the Laws of Manu these four ages total 4. Kali-Yuga lasts for , years, Dvapara Yuga lasts for , years, Treta Yuga lasts for 1,, years, and Satya Yuga lasts for 1,, years. Brahma lives for 36, "Brahma days" so his lifespan is equivalent to trillion, 40 billion years. After his death there is an equivalent period of trillion, 40 billion years when the Universe is unmanifest. Then a new Brahma is born and the cycle starts all over again.
Taken together the life and the death of Brahma equals trillion, 80 billion years. This equals one cycle out of innumerable cycles in the Vedic Universe. Myths of the World Wiki Explore. Perhaps like the ancient Mesopotamians, the Greeks saw silver as slightly inferior to gold; hence the term was used to refer to an age a bit inferior to the Golden Age. Following the end of the Golden Age, a new age was ushered in.
The age was known as the Silver Age. According to Hesiod, the Silver Age was characterized by the gradual reversal of the good things that happened in the Golden Age. The race of men started to stray a bit further away from the gods. This came in the form of their physical looks and ingenuity.
Human beings became less and less sophisticated. With this widening gap, a sense of inferiority engulfed men, as they began to see themselves as puny beings compared to the mighty Greek gods. The people of the Bronze Age did not worship the gods as much as their ancestors in the Golden Age did. They also had to fend for themselves by tilling the land in order to obtain food that was once so abundant in the previous age. They did not live as long as the people of the Golden Age or the Silver Age, as the gods created these humans with some noticeable defects.
According to Hesiod, the Bronze Race was formed out of the ashes of trees, which was primarily used in making spears. As a result, the Bronze Age humans were prone to waging war against each other. Their immense strength and less wisdom made them act in a very violent manner. Perhaps this was influenced by their insatiable appetite for the flesh of animals.
In the two previous ages, the race of men primarily had a vegetarian diet. Such was the bloodshed and hubris of the Bronze Age humans that Zeus decided to bring an end to the age. The king of the gods sent a great deluge to wipe them off the face of the earth. With the help of the titan goddess Themis goddess of justice, wisdom and order , Pyrrha and Deucalion were able to repopulate the world.
The Age of Heroes refers to the people that emerged following the Great Deluge.
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