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To: combjelly who wrote (901379)	11/16/2015 7:11:04 PM
From: Bonefish	Respond to of 1575765

Legends of a great, world-wide flood are very common throughout the region and history. You can find an account in the epic of Gilgamesh, for example. But that is far from the only example. The broad outline is the same, a man inspired by his god to build a great boat to same a population of people and animals that seed the new world after the old one is destroyed, but the details differ. I'm impressed you know about the poem of King Giglamesh and the Sumarian flood story. The details do differ. Similar story though. Some say the Biblical flood story was fashioned after that. As a matter of fact there are a couple hundred thousand Sumerian cuneiform tablets yet un-translated. One interesting thing is the "reported" human life span dropped considerably post flood. By a factor of 8-10 less. Of the top of my head, I think there are about 124 flood stories worldwide. Maybe something major actually happened way back then. Even the bible states the precipitation changed from misting to more raining.