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Author Topic:   Commonalities Of Accounts Of A Universal Flood?
ReverendDG
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Message 62 of 92 (354281)
10-04-2006 9:08 PM
Reply to: Message 46 by Faith
10-03-2006 12:57 PM


I also really really really do not think that even the most primitive human being couldn't tell the difference between a serious one-time local flood and a flood that covered everything in sight, NOTHING visible but water, and required being on a boat to survive.
this shows you know next to nothing about how these stories develop.
lets say you lived were it was common for your area to flood, now think about how little people know about the world and fear most of it.
the flood stories came about because of fear of water - namely the wiping out of their lives by floods natural or unatural
as because they had examples of this, from what the evidence shows us near the black sea
and they wanted to show the power and control gods had over humanity and to teach children to fear the gods, who for a reason might destroy them
most people who live near the sea have more water based myths, because they live near water and they live by fishing
people would tell the differnece, but do you understand that not one of them is about current events? they all take place in some time before the tellers peoples existed
by the way not all of the flood myths were about boats

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ReverendDG
Member (Idle past 4139 days)
Posts: 1119
From: Topeka,kansas
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Message 63 of 92 (354284)
10-04-2006 9:23 PM
Reply to: Message 54 by Faith
10-03-2006 6:30 PM


Re: I've already given the support for this point
wow they really edited the greek myth a lot, the story is wrong from that site
not only did the people in the chest survive but so did mountain people, which denies this flood myth being like the hebrew one
and T.O. has info on the chinese one CG202.2: Chinese Hihking flood story
its made up and not from china
the Ojibwe one sounds like missionary influences rather than coming from the people the thing is claiming it to be from
the inca one is wrong too
so is the toltec one
"One of the Tezcatlipocas (sons of the original dual god) transformed himself into the Sun and created the first humans to show up his brothers. The other gods, angry at his audacity, had Quetzalcoatl destroy the sun and the earth, which he did with a flood. The people became fish. This ended the first age. The second, third, and fourth Suns ended, respectively, with the crumbling of the heavens, a rain of fire, and devastating winds."
the toltec one
Flood Stories from Around the World
tell me faith does that really look to you like noahs flood? there are more floods that are nothing like the noah flood than there are floods that are like it

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