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This is an I interesting idea I haven’t heard before - do you have any sources on this?

by cdjk 5y ago

joe-collins 5y ago
The Younger Dryas was a climate cooling event around that time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas A minority view holds that the YD was caused by an comet disintegrating and creating a chain of impacts or airbursts across the Northern Hemisphere. A further subset of that minority suggests that those events are the source for flood myths around the world, and speculates that advanced civilizations existed prior. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas_impact_hypothesis#In_popular_culture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas_impact_hypothesi... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magicians_of_the_Gods https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magicians_of_the_Gods
- ianai 5y ago
  ...and you can hear more about it on the Joe Rogan podcast. Is there a good/extensive take on the mainstream geological and anthropological knowledge of what was going on around that period of time?
Spooky23 5y ago
There’s a few different myths and theories here. There was an event that killed most humans 50,000+ years ago, probably a volcano. Later, in the 5,000-15,000 year timeframe there were a few different flooding events, in the Black Sea, Middle East, the North Sea, etc. Presumably they were related, but hundreds or thousands of years may have separated these events. More recently, in the 12th-13th century, tens or hundreds of thousands of people were washed away in the Frisian islands. Lowland plains are the most fertile places to live, and probably contributes to the universal nature of the flood myth. I would imagine that the current Black Sea was a paradise lost when it flooded, probably quite suddenly, 7,000 years ago. When you think of ancient oral histories and myths that endured into modern religion, concepts like the garden of Eden, Noah’s flood, days of judgement, etc are powerful morality tales that may have been boiled down from some derivative of actual history. I’ve always found the idea inspirational, as life & humans have a way of powering on in the face of incredible adversity.

This is an I interesting idea I haven’t heard before - do you have any sources on this?

by cdjk 5y ago

This is an I interesting idea I haven’t heard before - do you have any sources on this?

The Younger Dryas was a climate cooling event around that time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas A minority view holds that the YD was caused by an comet disintegrating and creating a chain of impacts or airbursts across the Northern Hemisphere. A further subset of that minority suggests that those events are the source for flood myths around the world, and speculates that advanced civilizations existed prior. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas_impact_hypothesis#In_popular_culture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas_impact_hypothesi... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magicians_of_the_Gods https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magicians_of_the_Gods

ianai 5y ago
...and you can hear more about it on the Joe Rogan podcast. Is there a good/extensive take on the mainstream geological and anthropological knowledge of what was going on around that period of time?

Spooky23 5y ago

There’s a few different myths and theories here. There was an event that killed most humans 50,000+ years ago, probably a volcano. Later, in the 5,000-15,000 year timeframe there were a few different flooding events, in the Black Sea, Middle East, the North Sea, etc. Presumably they were related, but hundreds or thousands of years may have separated these events. More recently, in the 12th-13th century, tens or hundreds of thousands of people were washed away in the Frisian islands. Lowland plains are the most fertile places to live, and probably contributes to the universal nature of the flood myth. I would imagine that the current Black Sea was a paradise lost when it flooded, probably quite suddenly, 7,000 years ago. When you think of ancient oral histories and myths that endured into modern religion, concepts like the garden of Eden, Noah’s flood, days of judgement, etc are powerful morality tales that may have been boiled down from some derivative of actual history. I’ve always found the idea inspirational, as life & humans have a way of powering on in the face of incredible adversity.