Mesopotamia: >"... warned Utnapishtim of the deluge by which the gods planned to exterminate mankind. Ea told Utnapishtim to “tear down your house and build a boat” and to “take up into the boat the seed of all living creatures...Once the tempest had subsided, Utnapishtim ‘looked at the face of the world and there was silence, all mankind was returned to clay. The surface of the sea stretched flat as a rooftop … on every side was the waste of water’. Utnapishtim loosed a dove who returned finding no resting place, and then a swallow with the same result. Finally, a loosed raven did not return. The boat came to ground on a mountaintop and Utnapishtim offered a sacrifice."
Native Americans: >"The North American Indians have several flood stories. One from the Choctaw tribe tells how, long ago, men became so corrupt that the Great Spirit destroyed them in a flood. Only one man was saved—a prophet whose warnings the people disregarded, and whom the Great Spirit then directed to build a raft from sassafras logs. After many weeks, a small bird guided the prophet to an island where the Great Spirit changed the bird into a beautiful woman who became the wife of the prophet. Their children then repopulated the world."
Aztec: >"When mankind were overwhelmed with the deluge, none were preserved but a man named Coxcox...and a woman called Xochiquetzal who saved themselves in a little bark, and having afterwards got to land upon a mountain called by them Colhuacan, had there a great many children...these children were all born dumb, until a dove from a lofty tree imparted to them languages, but differing so much they could not understand one another."
Egypt: >"Flood stories from the continent of Africa are rare, but one from Egypt tells of an ancient creation god, Tem, who “was responsible for the primeval flood, which covered the entire earth and destroyed all of mankind except those in Tem’ boat”.
Peru: >"The Incas of Peru also had a tradition of a deluge. “They said that the water rose above the highest mountains in the world, so that all people and all created things perished. No living thing escaped except a man and a woman, who floated in a box on the face of the waters and so were saved.”
Scandinavia: >" All living things, all plant life, were blotted out. … And now all the rivers, all the seas rose and overflowed. From every side waves lashed against waves. They swelled and boiled and slowly covered all things. The earth sank beneath the sea...Then slowly “the earth emerged from the waves. Mountains rose anew … . Men also reappeared. … Enclosed in the wood itself of the ash tree Yggdrasil … the ancestors of a future race of men had escaped death.”
China: >"Early Jesuit scholars were the first Europeans to gain access to the Chinese ‘book of all knowledge’ from ancient times. This 4,320-volume collection told of the repercussions of mankind’s rebellion against the gods: “The Earth was shaken to its foundations. The sky sank lower towards the north. The sun, moon, and stars changed their motions. The Earth fell to pieces and the waters in its bosom rushed upwards with violence and overflowed the Earth.”
Another story, in the folklore of the Bahnars, a primitive tribe of Cochin, China, tells of how the rivers swelled “till the waters reached the sky, and all living beings perished except two, a brother and a sister, who were saved in a huge chest. They took with them into the chest a pair of every sort of animal …”
Atheists try to explain away flood legends from around the globe by suggesting local floods. But these cannot explain why there are many distinct similarities, such as sending out a bird, offering sacrifices, only a few righteous were saved, ect. The best explanation is the Bibles account of dispersion of mankind at the tower of Babel.
sea levels have risen 120 feet (40 euro feet) in the last 20k years.
Zachary Martinez
Floods have the potential to be very destructive, in primitive societies there was little to stop them. Its only natural they would think of fanciful explanations, hell some americans blame hurricanes on gays.
Blake Davis
>native americans >aztecs >Incas They are not the same time period as Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt.
Face it, floods are just an intimidating prospect.
Aiden Myers
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Ryan Young
Personal theory: Humanity exist since prior to the ice age, but in a far more specialized and secular state. Pretty much the whole of humanity was concentrated around immensely powerful (for that context) city statues who had their own cultures and way to see the world. Alas knowing the human nature in general, we also were a bunch of elitist pricks and each cities believed itself the greatest. Add to this the whole lot of possibilities that can arise when you think yourself the highest, surrounded by what you believed to be total dumb asses, while being safely hidden behind your city-state walls and one can easily correlate that it was a time of great hostilities and corruption. Imagine the current shit government does but it was cities next to ones another that hated the shit out of each others. We were so stuck up our own bullshit that when the poles shifted, we barely thought about it and went right at our shit flinging, alas it caused something akin to a worldwide tsunami that wrecked the fuck out of everyone. The only ones who survived were the ones who had the clever idea to get themselves on a boat and the inbred mountain dwellers of that time, whom the survivor now had as neighbor. Afterward while some of the primordial humans returned to their petty ways, ruling over the mountain dwellers as false gods, others decided to teach us their cultures, which we remembered to the best of our capabilities. Alas with times chinese whispers imposed themselves and some details changed, either voluntarily, accidentally or due to simple mistranslation (due to the context where these men lived changed and said terms weren't used similarly)
Dragons are a metaphor for empires, in example the Manchu dynasty is depicted as a dragon.
>The fact that every ancient culture has a flood myth proves there was never a flood
Blake Wright
>Mesopotamia: >>"... warned Utnapishtim of the deluge by which the gods planned to exterminate mankind. Ea told Utnapishtim to “tear down your house and build a boat” and to “take up into the boat the seed of all living creatures...Once the tempest had subsided, Utnapishtim ‘looked at the face of the world and there was silence, all mankind was returned to clay. The surface of the sea stretched flat as a rooftop … on every side was the waste of water’. Utnapishtim loosed a dove who returned finding no resting place, and then a swallow with the same result. Finally, a loosed raven did not return. The boat came to ground on a mountaintop and Utnapishtim offered a sacrifice." the tigir river flooded yearly up until the 19th century
Dominic Bell
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Joseph Cox
All of those societies lived near large bodies of river prone to flooding. Of course people living in similar circumstances would have similst fables about various floods they experienced
this, the story of atlantis was based on Doggerland being flooded and wiped out by rising tides and a massive tsunami
Adrian Peterson
amnh.org/ology/features/askascientist/question18.php >Will the world ever be all underwater because of all the ice melting? >If all the ice covering Antarctica, Greenland, and in mountain glaciers around the world were to melt, sea level would rise about 70 meters (230 feet). >They said that the water rose above the highest mountains in the world Sure it did. Please explain where it went since then.
Luke Brown
>what are dino's
imagine living in a cave and one day finding a giant trex skeleton somewhere, that's a dragon right there my dude
Alexander Lewis
the baltic sea was home to northern Europeans until it was flooded when somewhere near denmark the "levee" broke. It would've destroyed most life there as it filled in a matter months
Jacob Phillips
why dont people explore these underwater areas that used to be ancient lands?
Dominic Phillips
the same scenario during the formation of the Black Sea as the.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea_deluge_hypothesis >a massive flooding of the Black Sea occurred about 5600 BC through the Bosphorus.[2] Before that date, glacial meltwater had turned the Black and Caspian Seas into vast freshwater lakes draining into the Aegean Sea. As glaciers retreated, some of the rivers emptying into the Black Sea declined in volume and changed course to drain into the North Sea.[4] The levels of the lakes dropped through evaporation, while changes in worldwide hydrology caused overall sea level to rise. The rising Mediterranean finally spilled over a rocky sill at the Bosphorus. The event flooded 155,000 km2 (60,000 sq mi) of land and significantly expanded the Black Sea shoreline to the north and west. According to the researchers, "40 km3 (10 cu mi) of water poured through each day, two hundred times the flow of the Niagara Falls. The Bosphorus flume roared and surged at full spate for at least three hundred days."[5]
Also: inquisitr.com/432343/new-evidence-suggests-noahs-biblical-flood-actually-happened/ >About 400 feet below the surface, they found an ancient shoreline, which proves to Ballard that the Biblical Flood did indeed occur in the Black Sea region. He carbon dated shells at the shoreline, and said that he believes they have established a timeline of the event, which he believes happened around 5,000 BC. “It probably was a bad day,” Ballard said. “At some magic moment, it broke through and flooded this place violently, and a lot of real estate, 150,000 square kilometers of land, went under.”
Easton Mitchell
We keep seeing more and more evidence of earlier civilizations. I don't think they were some super atlantis crap but a roman esque Iron Age is very possible. 1. Lower the water level because much of it is trapped in glaciers. This would add a good amount of land to the coast lines. It may even cause inland water areas not connected to the oceans(Mediterranean is a candidate). 2. The lowered sea levels allow for more sea transport. Trade tends to allow for more advanced cultures to develop. 3. Almost all ancient cultures have a flood myth. Why? Were we all together at the Tower of Babel? Probably not. But the Mediterranean, the Gulf of Mexico, and the seas around Burma are shallow. Perhaps these areas were cradles of civilization during the ice age. Ever see the history channel show after humans? Basically there is no trace of what humanity built after 3000years unless it is made of stone.
Oliver Perez
>no trace of what humanity built after 3000years unless it is made of stone
This is why i would support a multi-nation effort to construct a monument on the moon that would be easily visible from earth. It would be our "legacy"
Elijah Powell
>"Flood stories from the continent of Africa are rare, but one from Egypt..."
lol, shits closer to middle east then africa
Owen Lopez
it evaporated to water vapor. the ozone isn't perfect and we have a million holes in it that water vapors can leak out of into space, luckily we have enough water for millions of years but not forever
source: i'm a scientist
Adrian Martin
If the moons gravity causes the oceans to bulge, what if a huge object passed near us, melted the glaciers and bulged the water around the earth, it would be like a tidal wave rolling across the earth, flooding everything for a time up to high mountains
This is what happened
Juan Howard
>source: i'm a scientist if you're a scientist i'm Marlene Monroe you son of a whore water vapor never reaches that altitude, too heavy
Bentley Sanchez
What is with the bullshit bible proof shilling recently?
Robert Rivera
sciencenordic.com/earth-has-lost-quarter-its-water >“By examining how the ratio of these isotopes has changed, we have been able to determine that over the course of around four billion years, the Earth's oceans have lost about a quarter of their original mass." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_sapiens >and studies of molecular biology give evidence that the approximate time of divergence from the common ancestor of all modern human populations was 200,000 years ago 200,000 / 4,000,000,000 = 0.00005 0.25 x 0.00005 = 0.0000125 This means that Earth has lost 0.00125% of its water in the entire history of homo sapiens. >if you added 0.00125% of Earth's water to its oceans, the water would cover Mt. Everest No.
Colton Jones
They do, and they find new shit all the time. Plenty of underwater ruins around the world's coasts.
William Hernandez
>bible shilling Dude have you read the thread? Kill yourself.
Liam Mitchell
Yeah it's a loose attempt by OP to connect stories of a flood as being proof of the biblical flood The thread took a different turn though and is fairly interesting but there have been a bunch of bible proof threads this week and this is obviously one of them
Samuel Robinson
Well if the genesis flood happened then there should be kangaroos in India. But wait, there are none in India
Landon Walker
That's if you go by (((their))) timeline and not God's timeline. Man has been on every continent since he was created.
Julian Smith
Doggerland was cold and swampy before it sank. We would also find the ruins of atlantis if they were there by now.
William Richardson
Likes stole their fairy tales from other cultures, yes. This is why Judaism and all of its branches (Christianity, Islam, Jehovah's witness, etc) are all false and retarded.
Henry Stewart
>Gilgamesh clearly states that the gods (plural) were planning on a flood >Bible never says anything about only God causing the flood >Biggest redpill is that monotheism is a lie, most ancient deities actually exist What did he mean by this?
Luke Roberts
citations needed
Adrian Edwards
I can find dodo bones and feathers, i can not find dragon scales or bones
Michael Watson
dinosaur
Hudson Murphy
No it's connecting stories of flooding to paint a better picture of ancient events dipshit. Are you so fucking diluted you think everyone's a Christfag out to get you? Get your head out of your ass.
Zachary Murphy
Or finding one of these you might immediately picture a giant cyclops.
Ayden Gomez
whenever I watch lost I just get pissed that 99% of girls won't exert the tiniest bit of effort it would take to look fit like evangeline lily
Jace Robinson
OP himself used these stories as evidence for the bible you fucking retard You are getting all aggressive with me for no reason Did you even read OP? If not I'll relay what he said in his second post >Atheists try to explain away flood legends from around the globe by suggesting local floods. But these cannot explain why there are many distinct similarities, such as sending out a bird, offering sacrifices, only a few righteous were saved, ect. >The best explanation is the Bibles account of dispersion of mankind at the tower of Babel. Now fuck off
Nolan Cruz
Even if we grant you the flood happened (which is impossible) the idea of an ark carrying 2 of all living thing for 40 days is laughable.
Jayden Edwards
Let me spell it out for you >ice age approaches >water levels recede >ancient humans build mud huts on the shores and all on rivers and shit >ice age in full swing >plenty of coast >ice age ends >sea level rises >people forced to flee b/c of slow and/or quick flooding depending on where you are
