Elmerült kultúrák emléke – A világkorszakok
Memories of Submerged Cultures — Aeons of World History

Summary/Abstract: The active memory of humanity cannot reach longer into the past than a few thousand years. However, it appears that much earlier data have also been preserved in mythological stories, albeit somewhat blurred. Myths regarding world destruction – mostly flooding or deluge – can be found in Greco-Roman and Mesopotamian culture, in Jewish tradition, in Egyptian myths, they are part of the Persian Zend-Avesta, as well as Maya K’iche’, Inca and Aztec mythology. A number of cultures (e. g. Samoyedic, Maya K’iche’, Aztec, Indian, or Greek) tell us of several consecutive catastrophes that had destroyed the known world. Via the oldest traditions, the cultural memories of various people may have preserved traces of cataclysms that wiped out entire ancient cultures – large-scale disasters that did not and could not leave any real evidence to posterity. This work makes an attempt to assess the stories telling about earlier aeons of world history – stories that may even relate real events.

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