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:

"Brahm then at the head of the Indian triad is Menu at the head of his
three sons. But that by the first Menu we are to understand Adam,
is evident, both from the remarkable circumstance of himself and his
consort bearing the titles of Adima and Iva, and from the no less
remarkable tradition that one of his three sons was murdered by his
brother at a sacrifice. Hence it will follow, that Brahm at the head of
the Indian triad is Adam at the head of his three sons, Cain, Abel, and
Seth. Each Menu with his triple offspring is only the reappearance of a
former Menu with his triple offspring; for, in every such manifestation
at the commencement of each Mamwantara, the Hindoo Trimurti, or triad,
becomes incarnate, by transmigrating from the human bodies occupied
during a former incarnation; Brahm or the Unity appearing as the
paternal Menu of a new age, while the triad, Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva,
is exhibited in the person of his three sons.... But the ark-preserved
Menu--Satyavrata and his three sons are certainly Noah and his three
sons, Shem, Ham, and Japhet."

Hesiod teaches that, after the flood, Chaos, Night, and black Erebus
first appeared.(45) At this time, when there was no Earth, no Heaven,
and no Air, an egg floated on the face of the deep, which, being parted,
brought forth Love, or Cupid. Out of Chaos this God created or formed
all things. Now Cupid is the same as the Greek Phanes, and Phanes
is Noah, the egg being the ark or female principle from which he was
produced. The Greek God Phanes is the same as the Egyptian Osiris,
who was driven into the ark by the "wind that blasts," or by the evil
principle.

45) The Theogony.

"As Cupid is