off topic: different cultures, same ideas

[Brucefelk@xxxxxxxx]

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