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To stretch the limits of plausibility, there's always the Zanclean flood: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanclean_flood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanclean_fl
by jonstewart 10y ago
To stretch the limits of plausibility, there's always the Zanclean flood: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanclean_flood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanclean_flood. That would make the flood myth a story handed down from our ancestors, the Australopithecus and/or Ardipithecus.
There's also the Black Sea deluge hypothesis, which would have been within civilization's memory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea_deluge_hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea_deluge_hypothesis
- duaneb 10y agoIs it so hard to see that floods are a common theme, especially in agrarian land near rivers (e.g. Mesopotamia and Egypt)? I don't see much evidence they all point to the same thing.
- jonstewart 10y agoNo, not hard to see at all, it's just not as much fun. :-)
- duaneb 10y agoHah, no argument there.