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off topic: different cultures, same ideas
- Subject: off topic: different cultures, same ideas
- From: Brucefelk@xxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 14:35:37 EDT
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