Note: This is an updated version of an earlier article that I had written about the connection between the Day and Night of Brahma and the cycle of mass extinctions.
The idea that human civilization has been gradually evolving over time in a linear manner, is a relatively new concept that was formulated during the period of colonization. Nearly every ancient culture believed otherwise. They said that time moves in cycles, smaller and larger, and that our civilization has gone though innumerable ups and downs over eons.
Sacred, ancient, prophecies do not come true every year; but when one of them do, it is a cause for introspection and quiet reflection. And, maybe, just a little bit of freaking out as well. The prophecy that I am talking about is the Sioux prophecy of the White Buffalo Calf Woman that came true, quite unexpectedly, in the month of June, 2024. The news received widespread coverage on both mainstream and social media, which prompted me to explore the possible implications of this event for our out-of-balance world.
Note: This article is based on information from my book, Yuga Shift, and was first published on Mysterious Universe (https://mysteriousuniverse.org/)
The legends and folklore of many cultures assert that humans lived much longer in the bygone ages – for some hundreds of years, in fact, – which seems difficult for most people to accept in the modern day, considering that the average lifespan today is around 80 years or so. As per the Yuga Cycle doctrine of ancient India, the average lifespan gradually declines as we move from the higher Yugas to the lower Yugas. The Laws of Manu declares that,
“(Men are) free from disease, accomplish all their aims, and live four hundred years in the Krita age (Satya Yuga), but in the Treta and (in each of) the succeeding (ages) their life is lessened by one quarter.”[1]
Note: This article has been extracted from my book, Yuga Shift
When we read the ancient legends and folktales, we constantly hear about how the heroes of the bygone ages were big and phenomenally strong. And I am not talking about the Greek demigods here, who were supposedly as tall as 15 feet, as per the classical Greco-Roman writers. I am talking about normal human beings. Pliny the Elder wrote in Natural History,
“But it is almost a matter of observation that with the entire human race the stature on the whole is becoming smaller daily, and that few men are taller than their fathers...Moreover, the famous bard Homer nearly 1000 years ago never ceased to lament that mortals were smaller of stature than in the old days.”[1]
Note: This article is extracted from my book, "Yuga Shift" and was first published on Mysterious Universe (https://mysteriousuniverse.org/)
One of the stories that most of us have grown up hearing is that the human species is continuously evolving to higher levels of intellect, by a gradual process of evolution by natural selection. It has been literally drilled into us that the modern human species i.e. Homo sapiens, has evolved over millions of years from ape-like ancestors.
The Late Bronze Age Collapse
The sudden and catastrophic collapse of the Bronze Age civilizations was one of the most dreadful events of history. Towards the beginning of the 12th century BCE, cities across the eastern Mediterranean region – in Cyprus, Crete, Greece, Anatolia, Egypt, Syria, Levant etc. – went up in flames, never to rise again, and the cultural expressions and religious institutions of the Bronze Age were lost forever.
