Re: off topic: different cultures, same ideas

[Leslie Bialler lb136@xxxxxxxx]

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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