9 Mythical Non-Human Beings That Ruled The Earth Before The Flood

9 Mythical Non-Human Beings That Ruled The Earth Before The Flood Ancient Greek texts describe a time before the Olympians when the wild places of the earth were not empty. They were ruled. The playwright Plutarch, writing around 100 CE in his work "De Defectu Oraculorum," recorded a cry that echoed across the Mediterranean world: the great god Pan was dead. But the tradition Plutarch was eulogising was far older than his pen, reaching back to an antediluvian age when horned, hooved beings of terrible intelligence did not haunt the forests. They governed them.