Re: off topic: different cultures, same ideas

["mike shupp" mikeshupp@xxxxxxxx]

Not to mention that as the ice retreated 12,000 years or so ago,
and Berengia (that 1000-mile across "land bridge') disappeared
below the rising waters, roughly a fifty mile wide stretch of
North American coastal land did the same -- very likely in the
course of a single decade.

if that wouldn't inspire widespread flood stories, what would?


----Original Message Follows----
From: Leslie Bialler 
Reply-To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: off topic: different cultures, same ideas
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 09:37:38 -0400

Hmm and hmm . . .

Well I can see how that could have happened. Isn't there a theory that
the Indians came here from Asia via "land bridge" which is now the
Bering Strait. It makes sense, doesn't it?


Brucefelk@xxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> Leslie bialler writes:
> >I have read that many cultures have myths that speak of a
> great flood, and that some people attribute this to the idea that there
> was flooding in the Middle East at the end of the last ice age.<
>
> In researching a local history, I learned five years ago that Potawatomi
> Indians had a myth structure incorporating a great flood strikingly
similar

> to that of the biblical account, including the good deity's motivations.
>
> Bruce Felknor

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