>*****GK: I have a much simpler reason for not
>attaching any "cultural" significance whatsoever to
>the so-called "Black Sea Flood" of ca. 5500BC,
Of course this "flood" would never have been the source of
the later flood myths. It always irked me that this event
was somehow associated at all with the stories that we find
later recorded in historical times when it seems clear, at
least to me, that the "flood" that many of these myths speak
of was one based not on any actual flood at all, but rather
that it was from a "common sense" explanation for the origin
of the world... at least it was a common sense explanation
for those living on a shoreline who would have undoubtedly
seen the seas as the origin of everything since they depended
on it for so much.
So, from the Mediterranean cultures, the flood myths spread
outward via spreading agricultural peoples during the neolithic,
regardless of the Lake Euxine event. _This_ is how the flood
myths became so widespread and appear eerily similar in design.
There was no major catastrophe as presented by Pitman, as far
as I'm concerned.
Duh! :P
- gLeN
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