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Rather than as a specific historical 'religious' document for evidence, I've seen using it as a guide to search for evidence of other potential events. One pot
by throwaway946513 5y ago
Rather than as a specific historical 'religious' document for evidence, I've seen using it as a guide to search for evidence of other potential events.
One potential explanation for these similar great flood stories have made me think of the Black Sea narrative that it may have flooded within the last 10k years, causing the rise of these stories.
It may not be true, as it could also be formulated a a flood story to explain the flooding of rivers for farming, and that one time there was a 'great flood' that initialized it for "us".
- InitialLastName 5y agoI've also seen arguments (unsourcable at the moment) that the Tigris and Euphrates used to drain separately, and that the adjustment when they merged could have come at approximately the same point in pre-history. Given the proximity to the origin points of both stories, (and seen from within their flood plains where people were already living) that would have looked like a huge flood, after which the local geography would have looked very different.