Message from @Andrules
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This is called the Eight Immortals
Eight people sailed on a boat from heaven to create China
When you see how long those people lived, they might as well have been immortal. Noah's father Lamech actually lived while Adam was still alive
At the border sacrifice the emperor would say this prayer, "Of old in the beginning there was great chaos without form and dark. The five planets had not begun to revolve nor the sun and the moon to shine. In the midst thereof there existed neither forms nor sound. Thou, Oh Spiritual Sovereign, came forth in Your presidency, and first divided the grosser parts from the purer. You made the heavens and the earth. You made man. All things with their reproductive power came into being."
Sounds kinda familiar
Ok, not familiar with the seven laws of Noah. Do you have the verses for them?
Genesis 9
The Chinese thing is pretty cool. I know most civilizations have flood stories.
Beginning of the chapter
Ok thanks I’ll dig that up lol
But that’s like Genesis 1 in their prayer.
There's an OLD poem known to this day with the Miao people, an ethnic minority
Biologically they're the same as Han, Zhuang etc. But they have different social traditions and still live in a primitive way
They're extremely hospitable though
In the poem, it specifically tells the creation story, flood story, and tower
Oh wow
At their funerals they read the deceased's genealogy. All the way back to Adam.
Yeah I’d like to see that if you have it.
In their flood story it's very specific. Noah and 40 days
Miao didnt write it down. You'd have to ask them yourself
They do elaborate on some things not recorded in the Bible, at least not that I remember
They specify at the tower, the world was divided into six languages
It's certainly possible, and then those six evolved and split into many more
Well damn. So it’s an oral only then?
Yep
They were saying it before the Bible was even written
Well that sucks lol. Make them write it down 🤣
Yeah. Which is very interesting.
Oh you could just ask them. They're really friendly
Yeah. But that means going to China 🤷🏼♂️🤣
If you showed up in a Miao village they would all beg you to come stay at their house and feed you
in their version, did the Flood happen because of the Watchers' presence on earth
or rather, a reason for the Flood
It gives a reason yes
Didn't do God's will or return God's affection
Fought with each other
so it isn't super specific
i wanted to hear their take on
the nephilim and stuff