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Originally Posted by MelBridgeman
I no clue but i have heard this is one of the theories that explains the flood that has been noted in so many ancient texts including the bible where it's called Noah's flood.
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Here is a fine example of how ancient literature, its composition, and purpose is so badly misunderstood by modern practices of text interpretation. In actual fact, there was no historical event behind the flood myth, which was perpetuated in Akkadian, Sumerian and Babylonian cultures, and which eventually made its way into Hebrew scriptures. The flood myth was always part of the creation myth, and was composed to address the question of origins. In these ancient cultures, creation was a process by which one of the gods from the heavenly court conquered "watery chaos" which resulted in the created order. The idea that the sea represented the turmoil of pre-created existence was likely a result of floods that occurred periodically, and wreaked havoc in early Mesopotamian civilizations, but it is a mistake to see any specific historical event behind the construction of these stories, whose purpose was to imbue the common perception of the natural world with a god-given sense of structure and order that conformed and coalesced with fairly specific religious practices designed for maintaining the delicate balance between creation and chaos.