I called it "Noah's Flood" strictly for clarity, as opposed
to, say, the major floods that we're having in Houston lately. What I
think happened is that when the glaciers of the Ice Age melted, the sea level
rose, and low-elevation places were sunken. Stories of floods come from
many national myths and legends, from the Bible to Plato's Atlantis
accounts. So traditional accounts of a "global flood" have some
truth to it, except it was more of a succession of regional floods. We've
been in a age of global warming that has recently accelerated, so we haven't
seen the end of the floods this time around.
(Not to be an alarmist, but much of the US Gulf
Coast is screwed. Don't know when...)
~DaW~
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 3:20
PM
Subject: [nostratic] There was no Noah in
Noah's Flood
Danny
Wier:
>They could come from any place. Noah's flood was in Asia
Minor
>along the Black Sea coast
Aaargh! It wasn't "Noah's"
Flood! Can we please stop refering to
the Bible as some kind of exact
historical record. It's a set
of mythologies that happen to have some
historical facts thrown
in, every now and then, for good measure.
Personally, I'm very
much doubting the Lake Euxine event as a source of
the
flood myths in the Middle-East. I think these legends are older
than
this and relate to Old Europe mythology, found along the
Mediterranean,
that tended to be very nautical by design. The
Middle-Eastern flood myths
are nothing more than a "second
creation" myth. They do not need a
prehistorical flood to
provide their origin because it can be well seen
that they were
built on a watery myth of creation. Check out the
Egyptian
creation myths and compare it to the flood. They both
start
with a primordial ocean... I rest my case. Case
solved.