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The Random, Meaningless Announcements Thread 3!

sun rise

sun rise

The world is on fire
Premium Member
Adding on to my last post:

Flood stories pervade hundreds of cultures and there are striking similarities to many of the accounts. It seems that at least some of these stories could be based upon actual events. Geologists have proposed the possibility of a great flood in the Middle East at the end of the last Ice Age, which was about 7,000 years ago. At that time, the Black Sea was a freshwater lake surrounded by farmlands.​
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The hypothesis is that the European glaciers melted and the Mediterranean Sea overflowed with a force that was 200 times greater than Niagra Falls. That would be an incredibly fast-moving wall of floodwater. There is physical evidence that supports this theory, including stone age structures under the Black Sea.​
 
ChristineM

ChristineM

"Be strong", I whispered to my coffee.
Premium Member
sun rise said:
Given how widespread the story is in various forms, there has to be a reason. List of flood myths - Wikipedia is a list. And where did you think Terry Pratchett got his slightly mythologized history from? Clearly the Great A'Tuin is Mikinaak

Waynaboozhoo shaped the mud, and it became bigger and bigger. He needed a place to put it, and a snapping turtle, Mikinaak, offered his back. The land grew and grew until it was the size of the whole earth.​
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A Flood of Myths and Stories is interesting because it illustrates differences and common elements. I can see something happened maybe 100,000 years ago that turned into myths that changed with groups. "Cargo cults" are a recent illustration of how things like that can happen.
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Note that Terry Pratchett also didn't take it seriously.

There are many flood myths, many based on reality. And if they would have kept it real I'd go with them. But some have been distorted to much to be physically impossible in hundreds of different ways. Blue whales are just one example
 
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