PART 2 PARADISE LOST : RECORDS OF LONGEVITY IN OTHER NATIONSThe Bible narrative claims that lifespans decreased over a long period, 38 generations. Such a decline would have been
witnessed by the entire global population over this long period - therefore it should be evident also in the genealogies
of other nations.
In order to test this hypothesis, we can look at the king lists of several nations, and ask “Do the earliest dynasties
show extended lifespans or reign spans?”
We will look at the ancient king lists of Egypt, India, China, Sumer and Greece.

EGYPTIAN KINGS

The first and second dynasties of Egyptian kings can be found in the Turin King list and a translation is shown here Turin king list: Column 2 (pharaoh.se)
Turin king list: Column 3 (pharaoh.se)
Turin Kinglist II,11-III,26/27 (bibliotecapleyades.net)
The first dynasty starts in column 3.10. Here is a literal translation for the first 5 Egyptian dynasties DYNASTY 1
The Dual King, Meni, Life, Prosperity, and Health
The Dual King Ity
The Dual king...
10 +x months 28 days ..
The Dual King Ity
The Dual King Qenty ...
The Dual King Merigeregepen ... 74 years ...
The Dual King Semsem ... 72 years ...
The Dual King Qebeh ... 63 years ...

DYNASTY 2
The Dual King Baunetjer ... 95 years ...
The Dual King Kakau ...
The Dual King Baunetjer ... 95 years ...
The Dual King Wadjnes ... 70 years ...
The Dual King Senedj ... 54 years ...

The Dual King Aaka ... 70 years ...
The Dual King Neferkasokar 8 years 3 months x days his lifetime 10
The Dual King Hudjefa, 11 years, 8 months, 4 days, his lifetime 34 years
The Dual King Bebti ... 27 years, 2 months, 1 day, his lifetime 40 years ...

DYNASTY 3
The Dual King Nebka ... 19 years ... his lifetime ...
The Dual King Djoserit, he acted as king for 19 years 1 month, his lifetime ...
The Dual King Djoserti, he acted as king for 6 years x months ...
The Dual King Hudjefa, 6 years x months ...
The Dual King Huni, life, prosperity and health, 24 years, the one who has built Seshem ...

DYNASTY 4
The Dual King Snofer(u), 24 years ...
The Dual King ... 23 years ...
The Dual King ..., 8 years ...
The Dual King Kha... x years
The Dual King ... years
The Dual King ... 28 years
The Dual King ... 4 years ...
The Dual King ... 2 years

DYNASTY 5
The Dual King ...ka..., 7 years ...
The Dual King ... 12 years
The Dual King ... he acted as king for ...
The Dual King ... 7 years ...
The Dual King ... x years ...
The Dual King ... 10 + x years ...
The Dual King Menkauhor, 8 years
The Dual King Djedu, 28 years
The Dual King Unas, 30 years

The First Dynasty of Egypt is dated to about 3100 B.C.

Most lines give the name of a particular king, written in a cartouche, followed by the number of years heruled, and in some cases even by the number of months and days. The number of years credited to somekings of the 1st and 2nd Dynasty is so high, that, in those particular cases, they are most likely not correct. It
has sometimes been postulated that this high number of years does not reflect the length of a reign but theage at which the king died. Although this possibility cannot entirely be overruled, it is strange that the writer
should choose to note the age of a king in one case and the length of his reign in another.
The Ancient Egypt Site - Turin King-List (ancient-egypt.org)

This quote shows an acknowledgement that the reign lengths in the first and second dynasties appear to be very high– and an explanation is sought to explain this discrepancy. The third dynasty shows a big drop in reign length.
A polynomial curve fits the data best, with an R2 = 0.73. An exponential curve is the next best fit to this data (R2 =0.67). A straight line has a lower fit. (R2 = 0.53).
The intercept with the Y-axis appears to be about 100 years – which is the generation gap of pre-diluvian people
recorded in the Bible.

The Fragments of Hieratic Papyrus at Turin: Containing the Names of Egyption Kings, with the ... : Sir John Gardner
Wilkinson : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
The data show a sharp decline in reign length 17 generations after King Menes. Modern dating of King Menes is 3100
B.C. Prior to the first dynasty the kings are said to have reigned even longer.

INDIAN KINGS

A record of Indian kings can be found here – The Kings of Indraprastha after Mahabharata | Sanskriti - Hinduism andIndian Culture Website (sanskritimagazine.com)
It purports to be a record of every king over a period of 124 generations or 4,157 years, 9 months and 14 days
between the event of Mahabharata and the beginning of the Mughal era in 1193.

I was curious to see what would emerge when the dates of each of these kings were plotted on a graph. (you can dothis for yourself using Microsoft Excel)..
My excel sheet is available here – https://howbad.info/lifespan.xlsx

An exponential decay curve emerged.

A pattern of exponential decline can be clearly traced. There was a steady decline in reign length over 122
generations of data !! No Hindu has ever mentioned this pattern hidden in their own king list. Perhaps they did not
realise it was there.
The best fit curve for this data is an exponential curve (R2 = 0.68), and a y-intercept at 70 years.
During the first 20 generations of kings there was a very steep and constant decline. During this period the line does
not alternate up and down, but rather follows a continuous downward path. This suggests an intense exposure towhatever was causing the decline. This period corresponds to the first and second dynasties of Egypt.
After the first 20 generations, the line begins to fluctuate up and down, suggesting that the cause of the decline inlifespan was weaker, though still persistent.
The first 20 generations seem to have suffered direct exposure to the cause; the decline over the remaining
generations seem to be the residual effects once that initial exposure had lessened, allowing life to reboundintermittently.
So this data shows the sharpness of the initial decline, the fluctuating and instability of the middle period, until the
final tapering out at the lowest level, once the cause of the decline had fully abated. Curiously, it looks as if thedecline stopped after 80 generations.
These observations are typical of a natural process of decay, and it is very unlikely that anyone trying to “fake” adecay curve would do this. The persistence of the decline over 80 generations and the gradual reduction of gradient
are things that could not be faked or invented, since that would require a rewriting of the entire history of India
without anyone noticing.
I also checked to see if a logarithmic curve fitted the data better than an exponential curve. R2 = 0.62 and the yintercept is at 100 years. Visually, the logarithmic curve seems a better fit.

Note also that the earliest reign lengths approach 100 years – we saw the same phenomenon with the Egyptian kingsof the first and second dynasties.

Mahabharata
The drop in lifespan with each generation was probably due to the steady accumulation of mutations or copying
errors. We know that mutations can be produced by radiation, and the decline in lifespan followed the “event of
Mahabharata”.
So, what was the Mahabharata event, and could it be a factor in explaining the fall in longevity? The Mahabharata
event was a war. Descriptions of this war include the following passages –“When then next day came, Samva actually brought forth an iron bolt through which all theindividuals in the race of the vrishnis and the andhakas became consumed into ashes.
Indeed, for the destruction of the Vrishnis and the Andhakas, Samva brougt forth, throughthat curse, a fierce iron bolt that looked like a Gigantic messenger of death. The fact
was duly reported to the king. In distress of mind, the king (Ugrasena) caused that ironbolt to be reduced to a fine powder. Men were employed to cast the powder into the sea.”

Mausala Parva: Section 1 (sacred-texts.com)
The last sentence ” to cast the powder into sea”, is compatible with the fact that water is a very effective shield for nuclear
radiations. Perhaps that was the intention in casting the iron powder into the sea. The next section, Section 2 of the Mausala
Parva, describes hair and nails falling out, and animals giving birth to chimera – mutants.
If the Mahabharata war involved weapons that produced radiation, then a global deluge would protect life to some degree fromthat radiation. Water acts as a shield. Is this why God sent the deluge? Could intense radiation be responsible for the decline inlifespan? Would any life have survived at all without a deluge to shield them?

The Yugas
Indian tradition divides history into a series of ages or Yugas. Currently we live in the Kali Yuga, which began in 3102
B.C. The yuga prior to the Kali Yuga was called the Dwapar Yuga. During the Kali Yuga lifespan is said to be 100 years,
but during the Dwapar Yuga lifespan was 1000 years.
So the Indians have a very specific date when the Kali Yuga began, and hence when lifespan began to decline – 3102
B.C. This date corresponds with the date for the beginning of the First Dynasty in Egypt.
This date approximates to the birth of Noah (2948 B.C.)
See 4 YUGAS — SATYA, TRETA, DVAPARA AND KALI YUGA (popularvedicscience.com)

CHINESE KINGSThe Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors
The Shu Ching records a legendary period called the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors.
The Three Sovereigns were•••

Nuwa (The Earthly Sovereign)
Fuxi (The Heavenly Sovereign)
Shennong (The Human Sovereign)

The Five Emperors were
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Hwang-tiZhuanxu
Ku
Yao
Shun

Nuwa
During the time of Nuwa and Fuxi, the land was swept by a great flood and only Fuxi and Nüwa survived. They retired
to a mountain, where they prayed for a sign from the Emperor of Heaven. After the flood they set about restoring thehuman population, and introduced sacrifice.
Nüwa is described as working unceasingly to repair the damage after the flood, melting down the five-coloured
stones to mend the Heavens. This seems a reference to the rainbow sign that followed the biblical flood.
The Three Sovereigns were credited with the introduction of the skills of agriculture, writing, medicine, iron work.
Fuxi carried out observations of the stars and of biology and discovered a kind of code that explained them. It
consisted of 3 properties that can each be in one of two states – so there are a total of 2 x 2 x 2 possiblecombinations. This was a binary system with 3 digits.
Shennong introduced cultivation of grains as food, so as to avoid killing animals. Appropriately, his name means "theDivine Farmer." Shennong is credited with identifying hundreds of medical (and poisonous) herbs.
Nüwa - Wikipedia

Reign Lengths
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Fuxi
Hwang Ti
ShaohaoZhuanxu
Ku
Yao
Shun

115 years.
The Yellow Emperor
100 years
son of Hwangti
84 years
grandson of Hwangti 78 years
The White Emperor
70 years
A great Flood occurred 100 years
60 years

2952–2836 BC
2697-2597 B.C.
2514-2436 B.C.
2436-2366 B.C.
2358-2258 B.C.
2255-2195 B.C.

Sources
The Three Sovereigns

The Five Emperors

Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors - New World Encyclopedia
China's Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors (thoughtco.com)
Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors - Wikipedia

Family Tree

There are about 600 years from Nuwa to when the Flood occurred in the reign of the emperor Yao. Compare this to
the Bible where Noah is 600 years old when the Flood occurs.
Xia Dynasty
After the reign of Shun, the Xia Dynasty began with the reign of the Emperor Yu. During Yu’s reign the most central
event was the draining of the land after a great flood that had occurred in the reign of the Emperor Yao 133 years
earlier. So, it took more than a hundred years for the flood waters to subside and drain from the land. Yu the Great
established the Xia Dynasty in 2205 B.C. and reigned for 45 years.

Yu the Great | Religion Wiki | Fandom
Xia dynasty - Wikipedia

Compare this with the Egyptian records of the first and second dynasties
The Chinese records show a more steady decline initially. Both Chinese and Egyptian records start with reign lengthsof about 100 years. The Egyptian records start at 3100 B.C., and the Chinese records start at 2952 B.C. It isremarkable that the Chinese records mention Nuwa as the survivor of the Flood, and confirm various details – suchas the rainbow sign that followed the Flood.

Sumerian King Lists“Before the rise of the Akkadian Empire in the 24th century BC, Mesopotamia was fragmented into a number of city
states. Whereas some surviving Mesopotamian documents, such as the Sumerian King List, describe this period as
one where there was only one legitimate king at any one given time, and kingship was transferred from city to city
sequentially, the historical reality was that there were often many political leaders at any one given time.”
List of Mesopotamian dynasties - Wikipedia

What this means is that when analysing the Sumerian King List we should look at the reign lengths of each city state
separately.

Kings of each dynasty of Kish are listed here - List of the kings of Kiš (second.wiki)
The reign lengths can be found here - The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (ox.ac.uk)

First Dynasty of Kish
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Etana the Shepherd (around 2800)
BaliichEn-Menunna
Mulam-KischBargal-Nunna
Mes-Simug
TizgarIl-KumThe Tasadum (? - ca. 2615)
Mebaragesi oder Enmebaragesi ( ca.2615 - ca.2585 )Agga (ca. 2585 - um 2550)

1500
400
660
900
1200
140
305
900
1200
900
625

Second Dynasty of Kish
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Mesilim around 2550
Dadasig
Mamagalla
GalbumTug-E
Mennunna
En-Bi-Ischtar around 2450
Lugal-Mu
Ibiera a 2400

81
360
195
360
180
290
420

Third Dynasty of Kish•

Kubaba100

Fourth Dynasty of Kish•

Puzur-Suen

25

Fifth Dynasty of Kish
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Ur-Zababa um 2370 (akkadischer Vasall)
Simudar (akkadischer Vasall)
Usi-Watar (akkadischer Vasall)
Ischtar-Muti (akkadischer Vasall)
Ischemic shamash
Nannia One 2230

400
30
7
11
11
7

Though the decline is obvious, excel trendline function shows that a linear decline is the best fit, with R2 = 0.53. The
decline starts with the beginning of the first dynasty, (modern dating of 2800 B.C.). Reign lengths are still very highinto the second dynasty, and only reach normal levels in the 4th and 5th dynasties.

First Dynasty of Uruk (Unug)
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Mec-ki-aj-gacer
EnmerkatLugalbanda
Dumuzid
Gilgamec
Ur-Nungal
Udul-kalama
Labacum. En-nun-tarah-ana
Mec-heMelem-ana
6Lugl kitun
36

324
420
1200
100
126
30
15
9
8
36

Second Dynasty of Uruk•••

En-cakanca-ana
Lugal-ure
Argandea

60
120
7

Third Dynasty of Uruk•

Lugal-zage-si

25

Fourth Dynasty of Uruk
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Ur-nijin
Ur-gigir. Puzur-ili. Ur-Utu
the son of Ur-gigir
Lugalmelem

7
6
5
6
25
7

Based on reign lengths, the first dynasty of Uruk seems to coincide with the end of the first dynasty of Kish

First Dynasty of Ur
Ur is of particular interest since was the ancestral home of Abraham. Here are the reign lengths of the kings - The
Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (ox.ac.uk)
In Ur 11' [Mes]-annepadda 12' was king, 13' he reigned 140 [years;] 14' [Mes]-kiang-nunna, 15' Mes-annepad- Sumero-Babylonian King Lists and Date Lists 205 da’s [son], 16' reigned thirty years; 17' Elulu 18' reigned
twenty-five [years;] 19' Balulu 20' [reigned] thirty-six years: 21' four kings 22' [reigned its 237 years . . .
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A-Imdugud
Ur-Pabilsag
Meskalamdug
Akalamdug
Mes-annapadda
Mes-kiang-nunna
Elulu
Balulu140 years
30 years
25 years
36 years“4 kings ruled for 237 years”
We don’t have the reign lengths of the first 4 kings of this dynasty. The dynasties of Ur were established after the firstdynasty of Kish and Uruk

Second Dynasty of Ur
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Nani
Mec-ki-ai-Nanna

120
48“3 kings ruled for 582 years”

Third Dynasty of Ur
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Ur-Nammu
Culgi
Amari Suena
Cu-suenIbbi-suen

18
46
9
9
24

“4 kings ruled for 108 years”

Based on reign lengths, the beginningof the first Dynasty of Ur seems tocoincide with the end of the second
dynasty of Kish

GREEK KINGS :Presumably if people lived longer in the past, then they reigned for longer, so we might expect that reign lengths
would show a decline in length as lifespan declined. I obtained a list of the kings of Athens here - List of kings ofAthens - Wikipedia , and here - Eponymous archon - Wikipedia. This covers a period of 30 generations.

Using Excel to automatically determine the best fit curve, a straight line is obtained, showing a drop in average reign
length over this period. The reign length is about 50 years initially, and drops to about 30 years.

Next we look at the Sicyonian king list, found here - Eusebius' Chronicle, Greek Chronicle, Castor, Porphyrius(attalus.org)

Using Excel to automatically determine the best fit curve, a straight line is obtained, showing a drop in average reign
length of 20 years over this period. The reign length is about 50 years initially, and drops to about 30 years.

Next we look at the Argive king list, found here - Eusebius' Chronicle, Greek Chronicle, Castor, Porphyrius (attalus.org)

The reign length is about 50 years initially, and drops to about 30 years.

Fuxi and the 8 Trigrams
Fuxi carried out observations of the stars and of biology and discovered a kind of code that explained them. It
consisted of 3 properties that can each be in one of two states – so there are a total of 2 x 2 x 2 possiblecombinations. This was a binary system with 3 digits.
If this is applied to biology, then••••the 4 bases would be reduced to 2 possible states (pyramidines and purines).
every 3 bases will be a unit of information, corresponding to a codon.
There are 8 possible units of information, corresponding to a binary number between 7 and 0
DNA forms a series of numbers between 0 and 7