Now continuing the text evicting the superstition from it and coming back to the honest insights of people of our early historical times, we can understand what people meant in these stories.
The question is whether this chapter brings anything about morals or history, beside a kind of collection of ages and dates…They might be point at periods, but for that there will have been many researches already. Like: Perhaps The period of the first ‘modern man’ of 130 is to be calculated with 77, so 10010 would be 10000 years, before changes (where would our ancestors get these ages? Or are they merely fictive, to say: The first modern man was so great, he has to have lived a long time.). Or calculated from the accumulative writing, they assumed that taking that the earliest records spoke of different times, they took 1000 divided among the several mentioned generation. An even more farfetched option, but not entirely unthinkable: As the knowledge in the texts is derived from Asian knowledge, and the calculations of years in Asian was different (Chinese years were shorter), the ages were incorrectly adapted. Basically we can say that from the stone age to bronze age, people only lived longer (by comparison) every 1000 years about 10 years longer. Beginning with an average survival age of 28, ending in the here and now at average of 87. 87-(1000)20=67-(1000)20=47-(1000)=27 would be 3000 years ago….but now I am counting from today and with a random number of 20.
Lets just go through the text and continue with chapter 6, as perhaps in the future we find more to adjust.