Time Travel Stories Scattered Around the World

One of the first examples of time travel appears in the Mahabharata, an ancient Sanskrit epic poem composed around 400 BC. That's what Lisa Yaszek, a professor of science fiction studies at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, said.

In the Mahabharata, there is a story about King Kakudmi, who lived millions of years ago and was looking for a suitable husband for his beautiful and accomplished daughter named Revati.

The two of them traveled to the home of the creator Lord Brahma for advice. However, when they are in the Brahma plane of existence, they have to wait while the deva listens to a 20 minute song. After that, Lord Brahma explained that time moves differently in heaven than on Earth.

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Without realizing it, "27 chatur-yugas" or more than 116 million years have passed so that everyone who has ever known Kakudmi and Revati, including family members and prospective applicants also died.

After this shock, the story closes at a rather happy ending as Revati is engaged to Balarama, the twin brother of Lord Krishna.

For Yaszek, the story provides an example of what we now call time dilation, in which different observers measure different time ranges based on their relative frames of reference. This is part of Einstein's theory of relativity.

Stories of such times are widespread all over the world, said Yaszek.

Another example can be found in an eighth century Japanese fairy tale about a fisherman named Urashima Tarō who travels to an underwater palace and falls in love with a princess.

Tarō discovered that, when he returned home, 100 years had passed, according to a translation of the story published online by the University of South Florida.

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In the modern era - the early 1700s and 1800s, a sleep version of time travel became more popular, says Yaszek.

Examples include the classic Rip Van Winkle tale, as well as books such as Edward Belamy's 1888 utopian novel "Looking Backwards," in which a man wakes up in 2000.

And there's HG Wells' 1899 novel "The Sleeper Awakes," about a man who sleeps for centuries and wakes up in a completely changed London.

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Ragnarok, A Series of Doomsday Events in Norse Mythology

In Norse mythology, Ragnarok is a series of apocalyptic events that will determine the end of the world. The giants of ice and fire will join forces to fight the gods in a battle that will destroy the planet.

The world that was destroyed will appear again. The surviving gods will meet and the world will be populated again by the survivors.

Norse mythology is divided into two major groups, namely the Aesir and Vanir gods. They live in Jötunheimr, one of the nine Norse cosmological worlds, previously occupied by giants.

They were banished there by Aesir, after refusing to enter Asgard.

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In ancient Nordic stories, the giants often interacted with Aesirs and Vanirs, but they usually clashed or competed with them.

Like the doomsday story in Christianity, Ragnarok has a series of signs that will ultimately determine the end of time.

The first sign is Fimbulvetr, a long, continuous winter that lasts for a year. The red chicken named Fjalar will warn the giants that Ragnarok has started.

The second rooster will warn all the dead that Ragnarok has started. Then there is the third red rooster living in Asgard named Gullinkambi, who will warn all the gods about the beginning of the end.

Lord Heimdallr will use his trumpet to play a special tune that will be heard in Valhalla, and this will bring the dead back to life and they will march into the realm called Vigrid (the place of battle) as the place of the final battle.



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The oceans will be torn apart and a snake so large, its size that it can encircle the earth and grip its own tail, will rise from the deep to join the battle.

The gods Baldr and Hod will also return from the dead to fight this final battle.

Humans, in the Ragnarok doomsday story, are victims of war by the gods as in Hindu mythology, about the story of avatars and humans on horses.

Doomsday Ragnarok is different from Abrahamic teachings, where humans are punished on "Judgment Day".

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