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The Travels of Noah Into Europe

THERE are various copies of ‘The Travels of Noah Into Europe’ floating around, and you may have encountered one. Those are all copy and paste jobs. The latest version of is the most historically accurate translation available in print. Editor Rebecca Gould went to great lengths to track down a clean manuscript, painfully correcting many of the mistakes seen in modern copies. We are pleased to premiere this most accurate edition with TUC: The Unexpected Cosmology. 

This magnificent text describes what happened after the giant Noah divided the world into three lots of inheritance among his three sons. Ham went about toppling thrones, setting his own children upon them. In little time, they became gods among men.

An HISTORICAL TREATISE
of the TRAVELS OF NOAH INTO EUROPE:

Containing the first inhabitation and peopling thereof.

As also a brief recapitulation of the Kings, Governors, and Rulers commanding in the same, even until the first building of Troy by Dardanus.

So begin with the genealogy of Dardanus (the first founder and erector of the city of Troy) it is requisite that we take for our chiefest guide therein the first prince and Patriarch of the world, called Noe, surnamed Gallus, following herein most especially, the chronicle of that authentic writer, Berosus the Chaldean: who indeed of all others most accordeth with the writings and holy works of Moses in the old Testament: for as much as the Chaldeans generally addicted themselves to letters unto which they were allured and persuaded by Noe, showing them the use of History, and therein the true particulars of the creation of the world, until that very time wherein they then lived; which also Noe himself learned and was instructed in by his father Lamech, who likewise received his knowledge from his grandfather the Prophet Enoch before he was transported into the heavenly Paradise: and this Enoch had it by tradition from the first father Adam, who was possessed therewith by divine instinct and holy inspiration. Let us now therefore attend what this Berosus the Chaldean will deliver unto us, being a most renowned, ancient, and grave author, who flourished not long before the times of Alexander the Great; and unto whom (as Pliny in his Natural History reporteth) the Athenians for his great wisdom and eloquence, erected in their university a most stately and gorgeous statue to his own shape and similitude, whose tongue they gilded over with most pure and resplendent gold. This Berosus we will in this Treatise much rely upon, adjoining withal unto his authority other authors of great worth, learning, and antiquity.

Noe (according to S. Ierome in his interpretations of Hebrew words) signifieth as much as resting or easing of a man’s self, and he was the son of Lamech, which signifieth humility. This Noe, by the descriptions of old writers, was taken in those days to be a Giant, in respect of his extraordinary stature, proportion, and corpulency and he was about the age (as Moses also in the sixth chapter of Genesis affirmeth) of five hundred years, when he begat of his wife Tytea (otherwise called Aretia) these his three first sons, Sem, which interpreted, signifies famous; otherwise called Melchisedech: Cham the second (though Berosus affirm him to be the youngest) which signifies subtlety or craft: and Iaphet, which signifies liberty or freedom: with these his three sons, Noe and his family lived in a city called Enos, which was the first city in the world, and was built by Cain the son of Adam, at the foot of the mountain Libanus in the land of Syria, and in the particular province of Phœnicia, not far from the famous city of Ierusalem, situated in the holy land.

In this city of Enos, and in many others thereabouts, inhabited and lived many most deformed, fierce, and terrible giants, who by reason of their unmatchable strength and indomitable powerfulness, ruled and overswayed all those people thereabouts at their pleasure, committing many odious and ungodly deeds, and living a most dissolute and vicious life, engorging their luxurious appetites with surfeits of adultery and libidinous conversation, as void of shame, the law of nature, and the fear of God.

In these times many very learned astronomers and wise soothsayers gave out prophetical divinations of the sudden-approaching destruction of the universal world, which their forewarning prognostications they engraved and cut forth in pillars of marble and stony monuments, to signify thereby unto the world their knowledge of such future and sure-happening accidents. All this notwithstanding, these obstinate and heart-hardened Giants persevered in their impious and detestable practices, tyrannizing and oppressing without all measure, addicting themselves to the finding out of weapons, shields, and other warlike accoutrements, as also to the making of tents, pavilions, and such like expedient necessaries for the field: wholly excluding all thoughts of any alteration or change to ensue: only the good giant Noe, among all the rest, feared God and was obedient to his laws, with all the rest of his family and household, which was Titea his wife, Sem, Cham, and Iaphet, their children, and Pandora, Noela, and Noegla, their wives: all which Noe instructed in modesty and good manners, and in the reverence and fear of their sovereign Creator. He, therefore, as well by divine commandment, as by the science of Astronomy, by which he gathered the overthrow and confusion of the world, began to frame and fashion that huge ship or ark, which we so often read of in holy Scriptures, and which was appointed from above to be the means of the salvation and preservation of humankind. Noe, when he saw this general inundation to approach and show itself, conveyed him and his family into this Ark, when presently all the world and all things else therein (this excepted) were overwhelmed and subverted under the raging fury of this so strange and all-devouring deluge: and this was performed on the eighteenth day of April, in the six hundred year of the age of Noe. And hitherto was accounted the first age of the world, according as Philo the Iew in his computations affirmeth.

The world thus universally drowned and kept down under the all-subduing power of the waters (Noe and his family excepted) in the end they began again to sink back and retire into the earth, which when Noe perceived (his Ark then resting on the top of the high hill Gordicus in Armenia) by the will and commandment of God, he with the rest (which were seven) came out of his ship, and descended down unto the new dried land: which was performed eight hundred thirty-three years before the foundation of Troy, and before the incarnation of Christ two thousand three hundred and seventeen years.

Noe then seeing himself thus left the sole King, Monarch, Emperor, Patriarch, Lord and Master of the whole universal land, remained wondrously astonished at this so strange and sense-amazing accident: and passing along the land, he found on a plain a fair pillar of marble, whereon he carefully engraved and set down the deluge and general inundation of the world in the form of an historical discourse: and this stone (as it is reported) is called at this day by the inhabitants thereabouts, Myri-Adam, which interpreted, signifies the issue of Noe, and it standeth in the country of Armenia, being a great province in Asia the great, which affronteth towards the East the Hyrcanian sea, towards the South lies Mesopotamia, towards the North Colchos and Albania, and towards the West, Cappodocia; and through the midst of it run the two famous rivers, Tigris and Euphrates, of all which countries, hereafter in this history more at large shall be spoken. It is written that Noe begat of his wife Tytea after the flood, thirty children, viz. Tuyscon the Giant, Prometheus, Iapetus, Macrus, and the sixteen Titans, which were all Giants: also Cranus, Granaus, Oceanus, and Tipheus; and of daughters, Araxa surnamed the Great, Regina, Pandora, Crana, and Thetis: some authors do allege more, but for brevity’s sake we will not further contend with others’ opinions.

Noe thus living in Armenia, instructed these his children in the knowledge of sacred Theology and in rites belonging to religion and holy sacrifices, as also in the understanding of human manners and secrecies of Nature, of which he himself had composed many books,  which afterward the priests and churchmen of Scythia and Armenia preserved and kept in great regard and reverence. For this cause he was called among the Scythians Ogyges Saga, which interpreted from the Scythian language, signifies as much as Great Patriarch, Sovereign Priest, and Mighty Sacrificer. And this Berosus affirmeth, saying: Primum itaque dixerunt Ogygam Sagam, id est, Illustrem sacrorum Pontificem Noam: he also taught and instructed them the knowledge of the course of the planets, and divided the year into twelve months, according to the course and circumference of the moon: he also by his study of astronomy and observation of the celestial motions, could prognosticate of the alterations of weather in the year succeeding: for which causes the Scythians and Armenians very highly honored him, thinking him to partake of the divine nature and supernal knowledge, and therefore called him Olybama and Arsa, which is as much as to say, the Heaven, and the Sun: and they afterward also built and named many great cities in his name and of his wife Titea, so much were they honored for their virtues and godly conversation.

He further taught those people the use of agriculture and tillage of the ground, and also the finding out of the use of the grape, and the manner to plant vines and other necessaries for their more easy living, whereupon he was entermed also Ianus, which in the Scythian tongue signifies the giver of wine. But as he was the first that found out the use thereof, so was he the first that felt the power and virtue of it, who not being able to endure the fume and mighty strength of the operation thereof, in a great feast whereto he had invited many of his friends, fell extremely drunk, and so overcome therewith, as he lay senselessly sleeping in unseemly manner amid these his guests and friends so invited: such was the fury of that newfound drink.

Among all the sons of Noe, Cham was the least in his father’s favor, who also by reason of his Magic art (wherein he had great knowledge) was called Zoroast, who wholly gave himself over unto all incivility and rude behaviors, following the abominations and vices of those horrible Giants before the flood: he, as hating his own father, for that he saw himself least beloved of him, as he saw him thus lying drunk (using some charms of enchantment) took now the time of revenge, and by his Magic so bewitched his father in those places of generation, that he disabled him ever after to have use of women, or to get more children: for these and other such his detestable impieties, he incurred the wrath and displeasure of God, in most grievous manner, and was afterward banished from his father, who afflicted him with no more punishment therein for such his unnatural deed so committed.