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Which strikes me as evidence that some 'great flood' occured and it was "visible" on a world wide scale. Which is why I believe the flood myths describe what happened.. or what the world looked like when the polar ice caps melted after the last ice age. People tend to settle near water, and of course being that a lot of water was locked up in the form of ice, the places where water was was futher "out to sea" than those locations would be now. Ice melts, oceans, seas, rivers, etc. encroach on human settlements.. people think "WHAT THE FUCK !!!!!!!!!" Afterall, most of them have no idea how ice caps work, or that they even exist. think the world is flooding (because in their expierence, it is) believe it's important... perform various "ceremonies" trying to please the Gods to stop this before they all drown. Eventually, the flooding stops, people say "Phew" and make sure to tell stories about this event from generation to generation, because to them it was a REALLY big deal, defying explaination. That it stopped at all was a miracle.
Exactly... and I don't see how telling the story of this event over hundreds and even thousands of years would not yield a story resembling the flood "myth" My point is that most "ancient legends" if you will aren't literal descriptions of the event they are discussing. Just as I believe that there were great Indian warriors, I don't believe any of them were born of wolves or any some such.Not to be an ass or anything, but you wouldn't notice ice caps melting as a "great flood" but rather a "very gradual rise in sea levels over the course of a few years or decades."
Hard to say if it holds much truth or not. It's a theory, nothing more, nothing less.Not saying this was a miracle or not, or that this is even of any value. However, what your saying doesnt hold much truth...
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Exactly... and I don't see how telling the story of this event over hundreds and even thousands of years would not yield a story resembling the flood "myth" My point is that most "ancient legends" if you will aren't literal descriptions of the event they are discussing. Just as I believe that there were great Indian warriors, I don't believe any of them were born of wolves or any some such.
Hard to say if it holds much truth or not. It's a theory, nothing more, nothing less.
In any case, the fact that the "myth" occurs in virtually every culture strongly suggests to me an event that was observed world-wide, and the melting of caps - and the subsequent rise in water levels would indeed be observed world wide. I can think of no acheological evidence which supports the notion that in the history of man the words has ever been covered with water, so to me, if the "myth" is grounded in a "real event" then that event must be something akin to the polar caps melting. It was observable world wide, people may well have considered it "the world being consumed by water" and such. My theory might well be wrong, but so what? Lots of theories are wrong. Doesn't stop the reasoning for floating ideas so as to better understand our history, and perhaps our place in the universe.
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Can someone remind me what a marmot is?
Here ya go! Enjoy!:tongue2:taosman, ive actually been looking for something about those stories, can you provide the link for your stories?