In the Bible we know such a character as Noah. Noah is the last and tenth of the antediluvian Old Testament patriarchs, who descended in a direct line from Adam himself, the first man on Earth.
According to the Bible, we know that Noah was a righteous man in his generation, for this he was saved from the global flood. It was he who became the successor of the entire human race.
Lines from the Bible about the children of Noah (chapter 9).
“...Noah woke up from his wine and learned what his youngest son had done to him, and said: Cursed is Canaan; He will be a servant of servants to his brothers. Then he said: Blessed is the Lord God of Shem; Canaan will be his slave; May God spread Japheth, and may he dwell in the tents of Shem; Canaan will be his slave..."
Shem, Ham, Japheth and their father - Noah, one of the antediluvian Old Testament patriarchs, who descended in a direct line from Adam himself
God informed Noah in advance that he was going to destroy all life on Earth
God informed Noah in advance that he was going to destroy all life on earth, and gave him precise instructions on how to build the ark. The Ark was a wooden vessel that could survive the global flood. When all the preparations for the ark were ready, God commanded Noah to take with him a pair from each type of animal and bird into the ark.
Here's what the Bible says about it:
“...And God looked upon the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had perverted its way on the earth. And God said to Noah: The end of all flesh is come before Me, for the earth is filled with evildoings from them; and behold, I will destroy them from the earth. Make yourself an ark of gopher wood; make compartments in the ark and coat it with pitch inside and outside...And behold, I will bring a flood of water on the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the spirit of life under the heavens; everything on earth will lose life.
But I will establish My covenant with you, and you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives will come into the ark with you. Bring also into the ark two of every living creature, and of every flesh, so that they may remain alive with you; let them be male and female. Of birds according to their kinds, and of cattle according to their kinds, and of every thing that creeps on the earth according to their kind, two of every kind will come to you, so that you may live. Take for yourself all the food that people eat, and gather it for you; and it will be food for you and for them...”
God allowed Noah to take his family and each creature into the ark in pairs.
Death awaited the rest on earth. And then the 17th day came, this is what the Bible writes to us:
“...In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the sources of the great deep burst open, and the windows of heaven were opened; and rain fell on the earth for forty days and forty nights...”
The flood lasted forty days and forty nights
This flood lasted 40 days and 40 nights, after which the waters of the flood lifted the ark and it floated. The water was so high that the ark floating on its surface was higher than the very mountain peaks. Naturally, it becomes clear that all life on earth perished in the waters of the flood. Only Noah and his companions remained.
After 150 days, the water gradually began to decrease, and on the 17th day of the 7th month the ark stopped. He landed on the rocks of the Ararat Mountains. But even after this, Noah still waited another 40 days, and then sent out the first raven. The raven, not finding sushi, returned back each time.
To find out when it was possible to go on land, Noah sent one dove at a time. One day a dove flew in with a Maslenitsa branch, and then Noah realized that the water was gradually beginning to recede.
So Noah released the dove three times. The first time the dove came with nothing, the second time the dove brought a fresh olive leaf in its beak. Then Noah realized that the water had begun to recede from the earth. The third time the dove did not return at all.
When the ground finally dried out, the family was able to go ashore. After Noah left the ark, the first thing he did was thank God. Here's what the Bible says about it:
“And Noah went out, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him; Every beast, and every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moved on the earth, according to their kinds, came out of the ark. And Noah built an altar to the Lord; and he took of every clean animal and of every clean bird, and offered them as burnt offerings on the altar. And the Lord smelled a pleasant aroma, and the Lord said in His heart: I will no longer curse the earth for man’s sake, because the thought of man’s heart is evil from his youth...”
After the flood, the first thing Noah did was to thank God for his salvation.
He built an altar to God. It was after this that the Lord promised to return the world to the previous order of things, and would never again devastate the earth for the guilt of people. After this, he blessed Noah and all his descendants for further human creation. The Lord also promised that He would no longer destroy the human race with the waters of the flood. And as a sign of this divine covenant, a rainbow shone in the heavens.
Passage describing Japheth
Suddenly a new, piercing female scream came from the porch, and the cook ran into the hallway. - They! Dear fathers!.. By God, they are. Four, mounted!.. - she shouted. Gerasim and the janitor released Makar Alekseich from their hands, and in the quiet corridor the knocking of several hands on the front door was clearly heard. Pierre, who had decided with himself that before fulfilling his intention he did not need to reveal either his rank or knowledge of the French language, stood in the half-open doors of the corridor, intending to immediately hide as soon as the French entered. But the French entered, and Pierre still did not leave the door: irresistible curiosity held him back. There were two of them. One is an officer, a tall, brave and handsome man, the other is obviously a soldier or orderly, a squat, thin, tanned man with sunken cheeks and a dull expression on his face. The officer, leaning on a stick and limping, walked ahead. Having taken a few steps, the officer, as if deciding with himself that this apartment was good, stopped, turned back to the soldiers standing in the doorway and in a loud commanding voice shouted to them to bring in the horses. Having finished this matter, the officer, with a gallant gesture, raised his elbow high, straightened his mustache and touched his hat with his hand. - Bonjour la compagnie! [Respect to the whole company!] - he said cheerfully, smiling and looking around him. Nobody answered. – Vous etes le bourgeois? [Are you the owner?] - the officer turned to Gerasim. Gerasim looked at the officer in fear and questioningly. “Quartire, quartire, logement,” said the officer, looking down at the little man with a condescending and good-natured smile. – Les Francais sont de bons enfants. Que diable! Voyons! Ne nous fachons pas, mon vieux, [Apartments, apartments... The French are good guys. Damn it, let's not quarrel, grandfather.] - he added, patting the frightened and silent Gerasim on the shoulder. - Aca! Dites donc, on ne parle donc pas francais dans cette boutique? [Well, really, no one here speaks French?] he added, looking around and meeting Pierre’s eyes. Pierre pulled away from the door. The officer turned to Gerasim again. He demanded that Gerasim show him the rooms in the house. “The master is gone, don’t understand... mine is yours...” said Gerasim, trying to make his words clearer by the fact that he spoke them inside out. The French officer, smiling, spread his hands in front of Gerasim's nose, making him feel that he did not understand him, and, limping, walked to the door where Pierre stood. Pierre wanted to move away to hide from him, but at that very time he saw Makar Alekseich leaning out from the open kitchen door with a pistol in his hands. With the cunning of a madman, Makar Alekseich looked at the Frenchman and, raising his pistol, took aim. - Aboard!!! - the drunk shouted, pressing the trigger of the pistol. The French officer turned around at the shout, and at the same instant Pierre rushed at the drunken man. While Pierre grabbed and raised the pistol, Makar Alekseich finally hit the trigger with his finger, and a shot was heard that was deafening and covered everyone in gunpowder smoke. The Frenchman turned pale and rushed back to the door. Having forgotten his intention not to reveal his knowledge of the French language, Pierre, snatching the pistol and throwing it, ran up to the officer and spoke to him in French. – Vous n'etes pas blesse? [Are you injured?] - he said. “Je crois que non,” answered the officer, feeling himself, “mais je l'ai manque belle cette fois ci,” he added, pointing to the loose plaster in the wall. – Quel est cet homme? [Seems not... but this time it was close. Who is this man?] - the officer said, looking sternly at Pierre.
Noah's sons were named Shem, Ham and Japheth
After the flood, Noah left the ark with his sons. His sons were named Shem, Ham and Japheth. It is about them that the further story will go.
Soon Noah took himself a small plot of land and began to plant grapes on it. He made wine from grape juice. One day, having tasted wine, he became very drunk, because he did not yet know the power of wine that it gives.
He lay naked in his tent. Then his son Ham saw him in this state. He immediately ran after his brothers to tell them what he had seen. At the same time, he laughed so hard at the indecent position of his father.
Shem and Japheth went into their father's tent and covered it with a blanket. They covered their father's nakedness:
“...and he drank wine and became drunk, and lay naked in his tent. And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's nakedness, and went out and told his two brothers. Shem and Japheth took the robe and, putting it on their shoulders, went backwards and covered the nakedness of their father; their faces were turned back, and they did not see the nakedness of their father...”
Shem and Japheth cover the nakedness of their father, who, after drinking wine, became very drunk.
They could not even look at how their father was lying. When Noah woke up, he learned about the deed of his youngest son Ham.
After which he condemned and cursed him. He also said that the descendants of Ham would be cursed and would be enslaved by the descendants of his brothers. And he blessed Shem and Japheth and predicted that the true faith would be preserved in the descendants of Shem, and then the descendants of Japheth would also accept the true faith from the descendants of Shem.
Everything that Noah predicted to his sons came true:
“...and he said, Cursed is Canaan; He will be a servant of servants to his brothers. Then he said: Blessed is the Lord God of Shem; Canaan will be his slave; May God spread Japheth, and may he dwell in the tents of Shem; Canaan will be his slave..."
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Let me remind you: Patriarch Noah had three sons - Shem, Ham, Japheth. Shem, as the eldest son, had to stay in his father's house. He was given the royal priesthood: to bless and glorify the greatness of God and to preserve God’s promise to the fallen Adam in his descendants. Noah predicted that from Shem would come the Redeemer of original sin, the hope of whose coming all of Old Testament humanity then lived. Moreover, the family of Shem was destined to be the chosen people, from whom, through the Most Pure Virgin Mary, the Redeemer of the world, the incarnate God the Word, came to earth.
And the Lord gave Japheth a great inheritance - to settle on the earth and own it. Having gone north from their homeland of Mesopotamia, they divided into two groups, one of which went to the West and formed the great family of European nations, the other went to the northeast and formed the famous Aryan state. After the collapse of the Aryan kingdom, as a result of a geological catastrophe in Central Asia, its inhabitants moved mainly to India, where they created the famous Vedas - the story of their highly developed culture, about Arya and her death. They formed a white dominant race among the dark-skinned aborigines in India.
For a long time, the Vedas, a written monument of ancient India written in Sanskrit, presented an insoluble mystery for historical science. The Sanskrit language of the Neolithic era was not written down, since it disappeared by the time writing appeared in Europe, but it is, of course, the proto-language of all European peoples, as well as the Hindus of the white race.
The Vedas can be called the Aryan “Bible”, in which divine hymns are recorded - psalms, a historical narrative about Aria or Airaya and her death, the theological teaching about the One God, the Incomprehensible Creator of the world. The Vedas are contemporary with the books of Moses; their age is determined to be one and a half thousand years BC.
The Vedas, just like the Bible, were compiled over many centuries (amplified and commented on), so when we talk about their age, we mean the writing of the first record.
Where was the country of Aria, which was previously mistakenly considered the ancestral home of Europeans, remains a mystery. They searched in vain for her in India; her description did not correspond to any of the possible options. Until now, this remains an unresolved question for Western European science, but at the beginning of the 20th century, the Russian hydrographer Tchaikovsky brilliantly answered it. Based on his research, a grandiose project for the restoration of Aria and its fertile fields was drawn up in 1925, and now a significant part of this work has already been carried out.
Aria was located in the southern part of Turkestan and is a fertile, but completely uninhabited land due to its absolute waterlessness. Only the remains of ancient settlements - large settlements - testify to its cultural life in the distant past.
Aria, like Egypt and Babylon, had a system of irrigation of fields based on river floods through natural channels. The Sarasvati River, with its tributaries Sira and Yamuna, flowing into the Caspian Sea, was the source of life for the Aryan state and it was fed not by rain, which was extremely rare in those places, but by melting snow on the tops of mountain ranges in the summer. Countless canals ran from the river, irrigating the land. But then a geological catastrophe occurred, described in the Vedas: as a result of a strong earthquake, the gorge through which rivers flowed from the mountains closed, and the Sarasvati River became shallow. As a result, its bed was covered with sands and moving dunes, which was a tragedy for the entire country.
The waters of Saraswati turned north and began to spill over the sands. The Aryans, forced to leave their homeland, mostly went to India, as described in the Vedas. There, having met local Negroid residents, the Aryans became their highest ruling class, spreading their great culture.
Part of the Aryans went to the Iranian plateau and became known to history under the name of the Medes, i.e., the inhabitants of the middle of the earth, as they called their Aria; the third - “mad horsemen” - went north. “Perhaps,” adds Tchaikovsky, “these are the ancestors of the Scythians.”
What happened next to Aria? The Saraswati riverbed has completely dried up. Nowadays this dry riverbed is called “Uzboy” on all geographical maps. Its tributaries Sira and Yamuna, the present Syr Darya and Amu Darya, filled the depression, forming the Aral Sea. According to the project to restore the fields of the former Aria, where rich cotton growing flourishes, everything will be arranged as it was three thousand years ago.
It is planned to dig bridges with excavators so that the Uzboy, Syrdarya and Amu Darya will again carry their waters into the Caspian Sea. This stream should meet the depression of an ancient dry lake and will fill it for five years, then, emerging from it, it will roll its waters further into the Caspian Sea. In 30 years, the Aral Sea will dry up, having lost its annual influx from two large rivers.
Theological thought, the divine hymns of the Vedas, the same, and perhaps more ancient, than the Mosaic books of Genesis, attract our attention, for they contain one of the keys to the mysteries of the spiritual world of prehistoric humanity.
To better imagine the era of the writing of the Vedas, we need to consider it in relation to two other great cultures - Babylon and the Western Japhethites - Europeans of the Neolithic and Iron Ages.
The closest descendants of Shem in Mesopotamia, and the descendants of Japheth in Europe and Asia then should have still had pure knowledge of the One God, whose interlocutor was their common forefather Noah. Over time, degradation began: for some faster, for others slower. In the Babylonian state, for example, by the time cuneiform writing on clay tablets appeared, polytheism already existed, but in the south, in the former Sumerian kingdom, true worship of God was preserved in some places. It was also kept on the distant outskirts in the small principality of Palestine, subject to the Babylonian kings, where even King Melchizedek of Salem was the high priest of the Most High. By the time of Melchizedek these principalities were already free from Babylonian dependence, but it is possible that his father or grandfather were still governors appointed by Babylon.
The descendants of Japheth in Europe during the times of Abraham and Melchizedek also did not lose Monotheism. Then they did not yet have idols, which is always characteristic of pagan polytheism; but they could not write down their beliefs because they did not have a written language. And when they acquired writing in Roman times, they were already pagans.
But here we have an almost contemporary literary monument - the Vedas, written in Sanskrit. The Vedas date back to approximately 1200 BC, but in fact what is written there was only recorded in these years, and their oral transmission goes back to much more ancient times, and may even date back to the pre-Abrahamic era.
This wonderful monument of antiquity reveals to us the veil behind which is hidden, perhaps already distorted, but still true faith in the One God, and with it great knowledge about the spiritual world, stored since the time of the closest descendants of Japheth.
In the divine hymns of the Vedas, the Creator of the world - the One and Incomprehensible - is glorified. They write about God in almost the same terms and concepts that were once used on cuneiform wooden boards by the closest descendants of Shem in Sumer, and then copied in a distorted form onto clay tablets in pagan Babylon. (Hymn “Instruction to the Son” - see “Islands” of true knowledge of God that remained in the world before God called Abraham).
The similarity between the two hymns - the Semites and the Aryans - is striking. The Aryan hymn also speaks of four Divine Rishis, who are great beings who reflect God’s providence for the world. They, just like ancient Israel in the vision of the prophet Ezekiel, know these four Seraphim and the Thrones of God (Seraphim are the highest heavenly powers, symbolizing: wisdom - Seraphim Man, power - Seraphim Leo, sacrifice - Seraphim Taurus, and heavenly - Seraphim Eagle Flying).
In pagan Babylon, the memory of them was also preserved, but in a highly distorted form - bas-reliefs of a lion with the head of a man and with the wings of an eagle.
The depth and wisdom of the Vedas, these hymns and psalms of the Aryan people, are amazing. They reflected the great philosophy of neophytes who worshiped the One God, the Creator of the Universe. They took this worship of God from the lost Aria and sacredly preserved it in their new homeland - in India. It is not surprising that India, even before the arrival of Europeans, had a great culture, grandiose monasteries, luxurious temples and palaces, amazing architectural monuments and amazing knowledge of the human spirit. In our time, India is taking particularly rapid steps along the path of Christianization, although the Christian Church has existed there since the first centuries of Christianity.
The white Hindu race numbers about 60 million out of India's 400 million population; white Hindus are eastern Japhetites, as brilliant in mind as the Europeans, and who had a common proto-language with the Europeans - Sanskrit.
It should be noted that in some places there is an absolutely outdated view that Europeans are Aryans, or the term “Indo-European complex” of peoples is used, or an even earlier term: “Indo-Germans”, which was invented by the creators of this theory - German professors.
(From the book of Archpriest Stefan Lyashevsky “The Bible and the Science of the Creation of the World”)
The descendants of Shem began to be called Semites, Japheth Japhethites, Hama Hamites
The descendants of Shem began to be called Semites. These include the Jewish people who retained true faith in God. The descendants of Japheth are the Japhethites. These include the peoples who inhabit Europe. It was they who accepted faith in Christ from the Jews. The descendants of Ham are called Hamites. These include the Canaanite tribes that originally inhabited Palestine, and many peoples of Africa.
As we see, in this situation, Noah’s son Ham acted very badly. Only evil and cruel children mock the actions of their parents. For which he paid.
But let us examine in more detail the relationships between three great people in the history of mankind - Shem, Ham and Japheth. Before talking about them, we need to consider the aspirations of all three.
Shem, Ham and Japheth - three brothers who were very different people
Initially, the meaning of their names also follows. Shem is a priest, a spiritual person. All his thoughts are aimed at the physical side of existence. Japheth is a soulful person, but he is also a bearer of beauty and harmony. It was not without reason that they said that the people who descended from Japheth were considered the guardians of beauty and the most perfect art.
The brothers Shem and Ham and Japheth were different from each other. What happened after? Then they all lived in one country, not far from the Ararat Mountains, and all spoke the same language. But when the human race became numerous, quarrels began to occur between people, so they decided that they would soon have to disperse throughout the entire Earth.
Biblical sources[ | ]
Noah's sons Shem, Ham and Japheth
Japheth was Shem's younger brother[8]. In the biblical narrative he is named last[9], but when presenting the genealogy of their descendants he comes first[10]. Japheth married before the flood and, together with his wife, was saved in his father’s ark[11]. After the flood, he had seven sons[12][⇨].
According to another version, Japheth was the elder brother, since Noah's first son was born after he was 500 years old (2470 BC), and the Flood occurred when he was 600[13]. About Shem, who married before the Flood[14], it is said that his first son, Arphaxad, was born to him two years after the Flood (2368 BC), when Shem was 100 years old[15]. That is, Shem was born when Noah was 502 years old (2468 BC). And since Ham appears to be spoken of as the “younger son”[16], it is reasonable to conclude that Japheth was the first son born to Noah, when he was 500 years old[17].
Each of Noah's sons had children
Japheth had 7 sons:
“...After the flood their children were born. The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech and Tiras. Sons of Gomer: Askenaz, Riphat and Togarmah. The sons of Javan: Elisha, Tarshish, Kittim and Dodanim... From these the islands of nations were inhabited in their lands, each according to his own language, according to his tribes, among his nations...”
Homer was the progenitor of the Cimmerians, who initially began to settle on the shores of the Caspian Sea. The Prophet Ezekiel said that the descendants of Homer lived in the Northern Aisles. His other children settled partly in Armenia. Homer's children lived in Turkey.
Homer, the son of Japheth, was the progenitor of the Cimmerians, who initially began to settle on the shores of the Caspian Sea
Ham and Japheth also had sons of their own. Ham had four sons. His descendants settled in the southwestern part of Asia and Africa. The Bible very often speaks of Africa as the land of Ham and his children. One of Ham's sons, Cush, had an excellent sense of smell. He was a very good trapper:
“...The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Puth and Canaan. The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raam and Sabteh. Sons of Raam: Sheba and Dedan. Cush also gave birth to Nimrod: he began to be strong on earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; That’s why it is said: a mighty hunter is like Nimrod before the Lord...”
Shem had 5 sons:
“...Shem, the father of all the sons of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, also had children. The sons of Shem: Elam, Asur, Arphaxad, Lud, Aram...”
Elam is the ancient name of Persia, which was previously the ancient name of Iran.
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