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[Edited on 14-5-2004 by SkepticOverlord]
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Wow glad we cleared that one up.
Next question please...
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Don't something like 367 versions of that story exist, give or take a few? I thought it was a common fact, but I have some less common facts to
add.
1. The revelation of the coming flood often comes from a fish, or fish-man, both in hindu and native american traditions.
2. The survivor is the 10th antediluvian (preflood) king.
3. The survivor's name means "wise". Notably, this means that Noah wasn't the original survivor in the bible, but Enoch, 3 generations before him-
it's probably just a mixup in all those "begats".
4. The Survivor Anchors on a mountain and sends out birds before disembarking.
5. Many versions include a serpent, either as an instrument of the creator in causing it, or as a malicious independent bringer of the flood.
6. The waters come from the ground as well as the sky. This ties into a broader theory, related to that of subterranean realms, which basically holds
that the earth contained a huge high-pressure water table which ruptured in the flood, perhaps in combination with a crustal displacement on the
Earth.
Also, in hebrew tradition, the secrets of science revealed to Enoch by God (or to men by fallen angels, depending on your source) are preserved on two
pillars, one of brick and one of stone (or marble). In order to survive the coming deluge, which is supposedly foretold by Adam from the beginning.
This is the origin of the freemasons, as keepers of that knowledge. It is also the origin of the Kabbalah.
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