Ah yes, India's Yuga system. In a few ways, it matches all the other systems. Every religious/mythological system talks about a war between different deities at the end of the current age. Creation, growth, misbehavior and then the great dying-off at the end. Then a new paradisal age begins. Read enough of this stuff and you begin to wonder if these are misapplied recollections of very ancient events. If the Book of Revelations is about a near future event, wouldn't the adversary also have access to the details and just put the breaks on it all with a long and sincere apology? Same with Loki and the Norse gods. Trickster Loki would know his doom and back up a wee bit and kiss Odin's ass. Hell, at least the Mahabharata admits to being a past even and not a prediction. I love that book and have read about a third of it in translation. Great book. (I did read the translated Ramayana which seems pretty dfamn historical to me. Google "Rama's Bridge" for some fun. Namaste!