Timeline and Mahaayuga
A conception of ages and their end, by violent changes in nature
is common all over the world. The number of ages differs from people
and tradition. The number of catastrophes that the particular people retained
in its memory, or the way they surmised the end of an age. There is very little
Lemurian memory. Maybe Lemuria was before the migration
which took place after the catastrophe.
Timelines and Mahaayuga


Traditions of four expired ages persist in the Tamil Nadu and in Tibet. The present age is the fifth. The sacred Hindu book "Bhagavata Purana" tells of four ages and of "pralayas' or cataclysms in which, in various epochs, mankind was nearly destroyed; the fifth age is that of the present.


The world ages are called Kalpas or Yugas.
Each world age met its destruction in
catastrophes of conflagration, flood, and hurricane.

"Ezour Vedam" and "Bhaga Vedam", sacred Tamil epics, of four expired ages, differ only in the number of years ascribed to each. In "Visuddhi Magga", it is said that `there are three destructions: the destruction by water, the destruction by fire, the destruction by wind,' but that there are seven "yugas" ages, each of which is separated from the previous one by a world catastrophe. In the annals "Puranas" give prominenance to the tradition of world catastrophes that decimated humankind and changed the face of the earth. The Tholkappiyam, is as old as 2,500 B.C. The Tamil literature prior to 2,800 B.C. was all washed away by the deluge that sank the greater portion of the Tamil country Tamilagam.

The sage Valmiki narrated In the Ramayana, "Sugriva" says to the messenger monkey: "having reached Kavata suitable for the Pandiyan kings, rich, in gold, celestial and adorned with pearls and gems, Oh Vanaras! (monkey man) look for Sita there." The Ramayana took place during the Treta yuga age.


The Indian scriptures break an age into:Yuga:
Krita (or Satya) 1,728,000 years; (172 million years ago)
Treta: 1,296,000 years;(129 million years ago)
Dvapara: 864,000 thousand years;
Kali: 432,000 thousand years;

Their total is one Mahaayuga: 4,320,000 years. (432 miilion years ago)


We are now in the Kaliyuga of the 28th Mahaayuga. The present Kaliyuga began in 3102 B.C. A kalpa is a period of time equivalent to 100 Mahaayugas or 432 million years, which is supposed to form one day of Brahma, the Creator. There are seven kalpas and we are now in the sixth one.

 

The Ages of the World


 

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