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>like a tsunami?< Not in my mental imagery anyway! As far as I'm concerned a tsunami rolls forward and up over the land. Waterfalls fall down, not up (except if you've just been thinking about Escher and perpetual flow machines, but that's another thread...) However, I will concede a tsunami may have made its way outward from the area around the base of the waterfall! So perhaps there was a waterfall AND a tsunami. (or is that 'perhaps there were a waterfall and a tsunami'? Neither sounds correct any more. At least I'm in a good place to ask for help! )
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I believe the 'great flood' in many western mythologies including the Bible is meant to be based on the creation of the Meiterranean.
I heard it was the creation of the Black Sea. There is a review of a book putting forward this theory here: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v21/n13/fort2113.htm
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BTW, I believe the 'great flood' in many western mythologies including the Bible is meant to be based on the creation of the Mediterranean
Actually, there was an article in the Cincinnati Enquirer recently concerning the Great Flood, sort of. The man who used his submarine and little roving sea-pod to locate and explore the remains of Titanic has searched the bottom of the Black Sea and found what appears to be an ancient city.
If this proves to be true, then this would make the creation of the Black Sea an explanation for the Great Flood. A city in a valley being completely flooded out of existence would definitely be a cause for commotion. Both the Greek and Hebrew religions include a monstrous flood (Noah, for the Bible, of course, and the story of Baucis and Philemon for the Greeks). Both cultures were located reasonably close to the Black Sea and they interacted quite a bit, so this would explain the existence of many parallel stories.
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does this also account for Atlantis?
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does this also account for Atlantis?
There could be a connection, but, assuming Plato didn't make the whole thing up, the most commonly accepted theory is that the story of Atlantis stems from the eruption of Thera (aka Santorini) in the Aegean in the mid second millennium BC, which devastated Minoan Crete.
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>..make the creation of the Black Sea an explanation for the Great Flood <
As far as I can remember, the Bible story also includes the re-emerging of the land. But there seems to be no demand for explanation when a catastrophe ends.
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But there seems to be no demand for explanation when a catastrophe ends.
I suppose everyone just assumes the phenomenon has run its course. Sort of like finding something in the last place you looked--since you have found it, there is no need to look in any other places!
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As far as I can remember, the Bible story also includes the re-emerging of the land. But there seems to be no demand for explanation when a catastrophe ends.
Perhaps they colored their prose by saying that the waters receded when really they just found land on the banks of the newly created Black Sea.
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