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God-Idea of the Ancients by Eliza Burt Gamble
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the proper time, will come forth with healing in his wings. This
God must issue forth to life through female Nature.

The god-man, Noah, who appears under one appellation or another
in all extant mythologies, was slain, or shut up in a box, ark,
or chest in which he or his seed was preserved from the ravages
of a mighty flood, or from destruction by the calamity which had
befallen the rest of mankind. In one sense he represents a
Savior, in another sense he is the saved, for he is the seed of a
former world and is born again from a boat, a symbol which always
represents the female energy. Sometimes he is shut up in a
wooden cow, from which he issues forth to new life. Again this
storm tossed mariner is born from a cave, or the door of a rocky
cavern, within which he had been preserved from some terrible
catastrophe, caused either by water or fire.

Sir W. Jones, Faber, Higgins, and many others who have
investigated this subject are confident that the Noah of Genesis
is identical with Menu, the law-giver of India, and that both are
Adam, a man who appears with his three sons at the end of each
cycle, or six hundred years, to renovate the world. In the six
hundred and first year of Noah's life, in the first month, on the
first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth.
The drying of the waters, and the beginning anew just at the
close of the six hundred years, are thought to refer to the end
of the cycle of the Neros. A year of Menu or Buddha had expired
and a new dynasty or Mamwantara was to begin.

Regarding this trinity, Faber remarks:

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