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To: average joe who wrote (707)	8/4/2008 4:05:14 AM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 725

I saw Apocalypto but it did not make the impression on me that I expected. I was expecting more of an analysis of the culture than an adventure like that depicted in the film clip you linked. I often wish we could relive or somehow know the adventures that the indigenous peoples must have experienced in the 10,000 years that they had the Western Hemisphere all to themselves. There must have been many such adventures, and we'll never know about them. Why, in the very place I live in there was an apocalyptic event that drained a lake twice the size of any of the Great Lakes, all at once. It let ten times the output of the Amazon River out across the landscape all at once, creating the scablands of Eastern Washington and many wonderful geological features all over the northwest. It made rivers run backwards, like the Snake River. It moved boulders the size of houses from Montana to Oregon. It gouged out the Columbia River channel. All in a matter of a few hours or days. A wipeout on that scale is sufficient to destroy evidence of any human culture that might have existed before hand. They've found evidence of humans that predate Indians (Kennewick Man), but even these ancient bones are younger than the giant flood. Suppose there was a culture there before the great Missoula flood. What would those people look like and do? What would they do if when the first people crossed the land bridge from Siberia and invaded their territory? We'll never know, nor even if they ever existed. I still intend to read A Land So Strange, but have not yet done so. It's at our library and will be out for another month. I put it on hold.