Really Seven Hundred Years Old: Difference between revisions
Content added Content deleted
Looney Toons (talk | contribs) (added example, copyedits) |
|||
| Line 419: | Line 419: | ||
* In [[The Bible]], before the great flood, men lived to be over 900 years old, the oldest being, of course, Noah's grandfather Methuselah. |
* In [[The Bible]], before the great flood, men lived to be over 900 years old, the oldest being, of course, Noah's grandfather Methuselah. |
||
** According to some midrashim, Cain died in the Flood aged 1656, making him the longest-lived human. |
** According to some midrashim, Cain died in the Flood aged 1656, making him the longest-lived human. |
||
* Torah and Gospel scripture also invoke the theme of a new mother giving birth to an eldest child at an absurdly advanced age. |
|||
** Abraham asks "Can a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah give birth at the age of ninety?" in Genesis 17:17. One stork, incoming... oops! |
|||
** Elisabeth and Zacharias (Luke 1:7) are also portrayed as elderly. "And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years." She gives birth to John the Baptist. |
|||
* Changeling folklore often includes the changeling (who looks like a baby or small child) revealing that it's actually several hundred years old or 'as old as Wester Wood'. |
* Changeling folklore often includes the changeling (who looks like a baby or small child) revealing that it's actually several hundred years old or 'as old as Wester Wood'. |
||
* Pick a deity. Any deity. Unless special circumstances require it they will ''always'' appear in a form that is at least recognisably human, if not necessarily young, despite ages being anywhere from centuries to as old as the universe, or ''even older''. |
* Pick a deity. Any deity. Unless special circumstances require it they will ''always'' appear in a form that is at least recognisably human, if not necessarily young, despite ages being anywhere from centuries to as old as the universe, or ''even older''. |
||
== Plants and Animals == |
== Plants and Animals == |
||