Once, a great flood struck humankind The cradle of our civilization Last remains in the world's oldest writings In cuneiform or hieroglyphs Perhaps the first writings of the gods The Tigris and Euphrates floodplains Here reside the gods of the distant Anunnaki Below them are the descendants who survived the great flood caused by Enlil Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, was a tyrant The gods created the wild man Enkidu from the earth And after a struggle, they became close friends Humbaba, the giant of the cedar forests of Lebanon He was struck down by the winds of the sun god Shamash With the death of his friend Gilgamesh, lamenting and fearing his own impending death He boarded a boat and set out on a journey seeking eternal life And finally, the herb of immortality... They obtain it, but carelessly it is stolen by a snake. Thus, humanity was destined to die. King Nebuchadnezzar, servant of the god Marduk, defeats the invincible chariot that slaughtered soldiers. Just as famous in the Code of Hammurabi, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. The cradle of the fertile Nile River is home to the gods of ancient Heliopolis. Amun-Ra rides in the sun boat, illuminating the earth and the underworld alternately. Osiris, the god of fertility, is envied by Set, who murders him and dismembers his body. His wife Isis grieves greatly and gathers the pieces of flesh to resurrect her husband. Their son, Horus, the falcon god, defeats his enemy Set and ascends to the throne. This is represented by Bastet, the cat goddess. Sea Urchin This people cherished animals At the deepest part of the colossal pyramids The mummified pharaohs sleep Tutankhamun, wearing a golden mask Queen Cleopatra herself devoured venomous snakes Their souls are weighed on the scales of Ma'at, the god of justice If the scales tilt too much, Ammit devours them For that time, they carry the Book of the Dead The Indus River flows from the Himalayas Here lies the Trinity of the Trinity Brahma creates the world with many faces Vishnu maintains it with his avatars Shiva performs the Dance of Destruction in this cycle In the Vedic era, the thunder god Indra throws the vajra and defeats the evil dragon Vritra Rama... To save the throne, Arjuna shoots the demon king with the divine bow Sarunga Arjuna is bewildered by the battle with his relatives Krishna, playing the flute, advises him on Dharma In this scorching land, seekers of enlightenment Soon, a wise prince named Siddhartha, who proclaimed "I alone am the honored one in heaven and on earth," attained enlightenment under the Bodhi tree and became a Chakravartin (universal monarch) Slightly to the north, in Persia, a favored prodigy named Zarathustra soon rises up a revolution Their teachings leave their mark all over the world Riding on the melody played by Saraswati A dhow boat sails across a small hill on a peninsula overlooking the sea In a cave, a man is engrossed in meditation Suddenly, the voice of an angel says, "Recite!" The man, bewildered, runs to his wife A crescent moon hangs in the desert sky
