On Jun 2, 7:58*am, "Robert Green" wrote:
"harry" wrote in message news:0aba4c13-5348-40ce-aa04-

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There are many "flood epic" legends around the ME. This was obviously
a one off event. *Gilgamesh etc. This is the likely explanation.http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/blacksea.htm

Flood epics are interesting in that they serve societal interest in a
round-a-bout way by getting people to thing and worry about floods and to
place at least some "seeds for cities" on the very highest ground around.
Almost every Judeo-Christian-Islamic myth has a precursor in Egyptian,
Chinese or Indian mythology. *What's his name - I am thinking Rudd Fleming
but he was an English prof who looked like . . . Joseph Campbell. *Synapses
still firing!!! He was a walking encyclopedia of theology, mythology,
psychology and sociology. *Did a PBS series around the same time as "Ascent
of Man" the Jacob Bernowski (or something like that) series on anthropology.

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Bobby G.

They obviously don't read their bible in New Orleans!