The end of the primordial age and the "Fall of Man"

Notes of a mythical-traditional nature on the esoteric history of humanity in the present Manvantara: from the Golden Age to the "Fall", from the "Sleep of Adam" to the "Original Sin", from the tripartition Adam-Eve-Lilith to the revolt of the Bear against the Boar.

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di Michael Ruzzai
originally published on Heretics Mind
cover: Vsevolod Ivanov

The complex theme of human origins, around which it has always debated, was also touched, among others, by the authors ascribable to the cultural trend defined “Perennialism” or “Integral Traditionalism”, primarily Julius Evola and René Guénon.

It was above all the French metaphysician who transmitted the concept of "Manvantara", present in the Hindu tradition as closed cycle of manifestation of a complete humanity in all its various expressions, and which in turn is divided into four successive ages (Yuga) of decreasing duration and spiritual value: the Satya (o Chalk) Yuga, Ruse Yuga, Dvapara Yuga and the last, the Kali Yuga, in which we are currently. These eras are comparable - but in our opinion not entirely superimposable - to the phases outlined by the Greek Hesiod, or the ages Of their, of the Silver, of the Bronze, youlthe Heroes e of Iron, which in fact are not four but five.

René Guénon defines the Manvantara complete on a duration of approximately 65.000 years, with the Satya Yuga which extended from the beginning of the cycle to about 37.000 BC, the Ruse Yuga from 37.000 BC until about 17.000 BC, the Dvapara Yuga from 17.000 BC up to about 4.400 BC and the Kali Yuga from 4.400 BC up to our times, according to an arithmetic proportion 4-3-2-1.

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The Primordial Land in Tradition

It is known that the starting point of the Primordial Tradition, which arose in the auroral moment of ours Manvantara, in the myths of the peoples of every latitude it is placed in the Hyperborean regions. Hindu cosmography, in fact, remembers the primeval continent Ilavrita at the center of which stands Mount Meru in a literally polar position, while in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition there is mention of shambhala, mythical land located in the extreme north of Asia in the areas surrounding the pole. In China we remember a boreal land formerly populated by men "transcendent" and a mysterious "soft-boned breed”, While in Islamic gnosis, as the orientalist Henry Corbin points out, we find the "land heavenly"- Hurqalya - also located in the far north, with clear paradisiacal and polar characteristics. Then there is the Greek tradition with Thule and the mythical people of Hyperboreans, the Norse one he remembers Asgard, the Iranians with the original land Ayrianem Vaejo, while the various Mesoamerican peoples hint at one Tula with similar characteristics.

However, they are increasingly mixed and confused mythologies, in which it is not always easy to understand whether the evoked land of origin concerns the single ethnic group in question or the totality of mankind, as well as whether it represents the truly primordial homeland of the beginning. cycle or a secondary and more recent center; in fact - Evola also warns - very often memories tend to overlap, as perhaps in the case of Ilavrita, literally polar, with the next Uttarakuru simply Nordic, or even with the same Tula/Thule which, already Hyperborean, in the Hellenic myth is then to identify itself with a land located instead in the North Atlantic and corresponding to the island of Ogygia.

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The Earthly Paradise, the "sleep of Adam" and the "Fall"

In Christian terms, the Satya Yuga corresponded to the Edenic phase, al XNUMX. Paradiso Land of biblical memory, and therefore its end - which occurred about 39.000 years ago - saw the traumatic one "Fall dell'Man", which perhaps had already been partially prepared some millennia earlier with the episode of "Sleep of Adam" and the related double event of the birth of his two companions, the less known Lilith and the universally known Eva; this probably to represent the articulated modalities of human descent from a stage deserve it primordial, polar and incorporeal (hence the myth ofAndrogynous Platonic, of the unitary and undivided caste Hamsa, of the "Transparent men", Etc ...) to a later one, now corporealized and perhaps centered on the Siberian north-east, but still "heavenly" and always immersed in that "eternal spring" remembered by the Latin Ovid.

In fact, from various traditional data we know that, in macrocosmic terms, the Satya Yuga it was characterized by two elements now lost, namely the perpendicularity of the earth's axis with respect to the plane of the ecliptic and the connected equinoctial conditions with the relative particularly mild climate that would have affected also the regions of high latitude.

Obviously, on the physical level, to constitute the primary event that decreed the end of the Hyperborean see and the Paradise age was the arrival of the axial inclination, while the resurgence of the Wurmian glaciation and the aggression of the northern areas, which had remained preserved until then, was the immediate consequence (in addition, obviously, to the start of the seasonal cycle). This event must have been much more traumatic than the previous cataclysms which had probably occurred around the middle of Satya Yuga in correspondence with the aforementioned "Sleep di Adam”, But which nevertheless had not affected the correspondence between the terrestrial equator and the ecliptic plane. What was happening now, however, was a sudden change of the celestial poles themselves - that is, the imaginary points of the uranic vault towards which the extensions of the axis direct - which, at an astrophysical level, must have almost represented the meaning of a "fall" of Principle itself, assimilated to Polo of rotation.

In fact, Julius Evola underlines that, even before the astrophysical fact, the cause of what then precipitates to the material level necessarily resides in the "subtle" sphere, and therefore the loss of the perpendicularity of the earth's axis could only represent the inevitable consequence " gross "of a similar deviation previously occurred, as we shall see, on the spiritual and anthropological level.

The previous advent of human corporealization it was above all connected, according to the Hindu cosmological point of view, to the action of Raja To use, constitutive quality of the event that generically promotes dynamism and activity, alternately acting on the lowest Tamas To use to repress the highest Sattva To use, or viceversa. Towards the end of Satya Yuga, probably the Raja To use began to act more and more on Tamas with significant consequences: the re-proposition, similarly to what happened in auroral times, for the angel Lucifer (Iblis in the Islamic world) - but now applied to humanity - of what in Christian terms it is the "sin of pride" which, as Frithjof Schuon points out, represents the most fearful obstacle on the spiritual path of Man. Pride, in fact, is to be understood as a real "inversion" of normal hierarchical relationships, that is the preference of oneself to God, even the opposition to Him, and it is much more serious than the other obstacle, passion ( or rather the preference of the world over God, the one that probably came into play in the phase of "Adam's sleep"And that had caused the"take the exit (uscita)"Centrifuge of the Female, assimilated to the event of corporealization).

On a more internal level, an analogy of this "sin"Could be made with the infringement committed by theAnima against the Spirit, when it distinguishes itself from it and opposes it in its stubborn will to affirm its own individual existence; instead, from a more “meta-historical” point of view, the episode in question constitutes just that "original sin" which involved the "Fall of Man"And the irreversible removal from Heaven on earth.

However, we note how Frithjof Schuon also notes a partially different interpretation, present in other traditions than the biblical one, on the passage from original innocence to "knowledge of good and evil": not, that is, as a first traumatic sinful experience and not even as an ontological level fall, but rather as a necessary completion of the personality through an experience which had already been foreseen a priori for Man.

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Brahmin e Kshatriya: the Boar and the Bear

On the other hand, the aforementioned impulse towards the inversion of normal hierarchical relations may also represent an explanation of the change which, towards the end of the Satya Yuga, interested the relationship between the first caste, male-priestly (Brahmin) and the second, female-warrior (Kshatriya), which had come to polarize since the primordial unitary caste Hamsa, in analogy to the output of the couple Lilith-Eve byAdam who, until then, was still androgynous.

It is in fact probable that, within the warrior caste, the groups most subject to the influences of the lunar matrix - now gradually more and more predominant - gradually began to deviate from the spiritual point of view, and that, in our opinion, this distancing could be initially arisen among the peoples suddenly pushed further south, referable to the "I wait for Lilith" the changing Moon (in its dark and new moon phase); it was an event perhaps also facilitated by the persistence of a certain proximity of these with the subhuman forms, tamasically dominated, by now larval and convoluted products of the aforementioned fall luciferic of beginning Manvantara (which occurred following the refusal to adore the divine, spiritual and incorporeal image, of which the first Adam was brightly substantiated).

Starting from the populations related to Lilith, however, the action would be progressively extended, favored by the common substrate "thin"Aqueous-selenic, to the more northern ones, related to the "appearance Eva" the Moon (in its clear and full moon phase); a confirmation in this sense could be given by a Christian tradition, according to which the Snake who tried Eva in the garden ofEden coincided precisely with Lilith.

In this way, the forces further away from the Principle, through Eva and caste kshatriya now deviated, they would eventually come up to corrupt and to make the same fall Adam, that is, the part of humanity represented by the caste Brahmin, which instead had remained more intimating linked to Strength sun care of the subtle plane, in the guise of those "call"And those"Some”Who still came to stay among men.

In fact, several traditional sources indicate how, at a certain point, the populations connected to the caste kshatriya they launched a decisive attack on the spiritual authority represented by those connected to the caste Brahmin. For example, Norse mythology clearly relates the end of the primordial period with the advent of warrior peoples who, under the symbol ofShe-bear, they would have attacked the Boar bound to Freyr-Frodhi. For his part, René Guénon underlines how, significantly, it was precisely Atalanta - raised by aShe-bear - to strike the priestly symbol first, hence the clear reference to the action of Western people who were responsible for unleashing the attack against the first caste.

The primary role played, on the occasion, by the Atlantic populations, seems to be confirmed also by other authors who place the event in correspondence with, or in proximity to, the moment in which it was precisely the Titan Atlas to take on the heavy load of the world, while further mythical elements point us to what it was like at the very end of the age of Kronos that those astronomical movements took place, already mentioned at the beginning, of which perhaps another trace can be found in the story of Phaeton: in this narrative, which has been hypothesized to be a reminder of the perspective shift of the galaxy, it is always the titan Atlas to support the Terra, but also to be dangerously unbalanced to the point of tilting the axis of the world [cf. A. Casella, The "Heavenly Fire": Kronos, Phaeton, Prometheus].

And here too, similarly to many other cases, it should be emphasized, as Evola himself recalls, the clearly ambivalent aspect of the symbolism covered by the western titan, in which the idea "negative" of a punishment suffered by Zeus (to have, according to some, participated in the fight against the Olympics) is that "positive”Of a polar function assumed on its shoulders, paradoxically they come to coexist: it is no coincidence that, for example, Homer placed the deity in the same mythical country of the Hyperboreans, where there were the mighty columns that supported the cosmos, and if even in Jewish rabbinism the myth of Atlas, according to which the earth rested, however, on a single pillar, is equivalent to "pious" that supports the world with lby dint oflits virtues.

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Bio-anthropological and linguistic hints

If, on the other hand, we now leave the mythical-traditional plane and move on to frame the problem from a more purely bio-anthropological point of view, we could hypothesize that the conclusion of the primordial age is to be related to a confused series of migrations and interbreeding that took place towards the end of Satya Yuga. The Atlantean land was mainly involved and the southern populations were first involved, in line with what is expressed above "Lilith"And those"intermediate"Comparable to Eva, which would thus have dragged into the hybridization also, progressively, the more boreal ones corresponding to "Adam"; this, moreover, also appears in good agreement with what Plato pointed out, which he indicated in the excessive mixing between nature "Earth" is that "celthis”The cause of the fall of primeval humanity.

Probably the generation of men must have ensued Cro-Magnon, which can be classified as the most accomplished and stabilized aspect of the multiform Razza red and which arose at the very final moment of its period of dominance (that is, the second half of Satya Yuga); the particular shape it assumed, marked by a certain "gigantism", Probably had to represent an intrinsic human possibility that presented itself almost as"symmetrical"Compared to that of the opposite direction,"pygmoid", And which probably distinguished the populations above all, even though"Sapiens", Similar to Lilith.

I Cro-Magnon of about 35-40.000 years ago are clearly comparable to Razz bronze of Hesiod and it should not be forgotten that even from today's prehistoric research, they are almost unanimously considered the result of a hybridization process that took place between rather heterogeneous populations. They will assume, in the times following the end of the Paradise age, a certain anthropological relevance, which however in a first phase will fall under the telluric sign ofAge dellto Mother, of original southern matrix as well as the human groups that from now on will begin to predominate.

More specifically, following the hypotheses of recent linguistics "macro-classification", We believe that the north-eastern strain attributable to"Adam”Roughly corresponded to that trunk defined in broad terms as "Nostratic", to which the archaeologist Colin Renfrew attributes an age (in our opinion, too low) of about 27.000 years; significantly, at the end "Nostratic", Aharon Dolgopolsky, rather preferred that of "Boreasle”, However, indicating the people who would then be further subdivided into branches Master-Dravidian, Sumerian, Caucasian-cartsail, Afro-Asiatic, Amerindian (the inclusion of which in this grouping is however subject to discussion) and finally eurasian.

The latter branch was hypothesized by Joseph Greenberg and in turn includes six distinct linguistic families which, with respect to the broader nostratic set (which, in some versions of the theory, appears as an alternative to the Eurasian one) would also result in Merritt Ruhlen more closely related to each other: the uralica,altaica, Korean-ainu-Japanese, chucky-give them away, Eskimo-aleutin and ours, that Indo-European.

Having reached the Indo-European level, we now find ourselves in front of a well-defined genetic unit in the relations of reciprocal kinship between the internal subgroups (eg. romance, Germanic, Slavic, Celtic, etc ...), so much so that if we randomly choose two languages Indo-Europeans, they appear far closer to each other than they are to any other language outside the family: la phylogenetic solidity of the whole indo-european it is, therefore, a practically uncontested and widely shared fact in the glottological field (even if we consider it interesting to recall how, individually, René Guénon instead considered it nothing more than a mere abstraction of the linguistics of the German school).

In any case, returning to the level of linguistic groupings of a broader order, it is probable that the branch eurasian and that Amerindian they still maintained, for a certain period, a significant degree of contiguity and, especially for the Eurasian branch, a location at relatively high latitude, which is still evident today with the languages ​​that are part of it.

Through some of its fringes, however, the lineages attributable to "Adam" they had to come into contact, in various ways and not easy to reconstruct, with those connected to "Eva" (in our opinion, corresponding to the populations included in the macro family But-Not-caucasian) it's at "Lilith" (the broad set even more southern, African ed Austro-Pacifico), which, during the second half of Satya Yuga, at different times and starting from the north they went to settle further south, thus producing the hybridizations mentioned above.

But, above all, these migrations had the effect of leaving the Hyperborean site deserted - Varahi, the "Land of the Boar" - located in a northeastern quadrant of Vecchio Mondo (the lost Beringia?) which, similarly to other more southern areas of the planet, had been happily inhabited until then.

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