mopc

Though I never heard of the Chinese or Indians having any. I guess since most civilizations developed near rivers or oceans, it would be only natural if most civilizations had flood myths.

David B

Well, let's see.

I won't edit this post, but add another.

David B (is off to google Indian and Chinese flood myths)

Malachi151

FYI, next Sunday I'll be talking about the issue of fossils and mythology, as well as science, in the ancient world.

http://www.rationalrevolution.net/bl...try_id=1455700

David B

This came top on google.

http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/chinaflood.html

There were lots of others underneath

David B

David B

And this is a quote from the site that came top on google for 'Indian Flood Myths'.

India. The flood legend of India begins with a creator god named Manu washing himself with water from a jar. A fish in the jar asked for Manu's protection and promised to save him from a great flood that would occur in the future. Manu raised the fish until it was one of the largest fish in the world, and then he released it into the sea. The fish told Manu what year the flood would come and advised him to build a ship. Manu built the ship, and when the flood came, the fish towed it to a mountaintop. Manu alone survived the flood. The fish is generally identified as one form of the god Vishnu*.

Flood myths seem to be pretty ubiquitous.

David B

credoconsolans

"About 64.6 million B.C. (give or take 200,000 years)..."

the author goes on to describe the impact of the asteroid on the Yucatan Peninsula. Then he comments further:

"In A.D. 2002, petroleum geologists working in the North Sea will confirm the simultaneous arrival of a second object, possibly a smaller, orbiting companion of the Yucatan impactor. On the bottom of the sea, a 'fossil impact scar' preserves at least ten concentric rings...radiating outwards from a central mountainous peak, inside a central pit 1.5 miles (2 km) across..."

The author goes on to describe the impact as being 100 Theras (1 Thera = 24,000 megatons).

From Ghosts of Vesuvius, by Charles Pellegrino

mountainman

From memory the claim was an impact in the southern atlantic.
Such waves travel without appreciable attenuation until it hits land.
The impact site need not be local, may be thousands of miles away.

The size of the wave will be proportional to the size of the impactor and the
depth of the water at the impact site.


Pete Brown
www.mountainman.com.au