Agnostic75
Well-Known Member
The stories obviously show far more differences than similarities.
Flood Stories from Around the World
Flood Stories from Around the World
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Ancient flood stories from many parts of the world
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otokage007
Well-Known Member
Interesting post. I wonder why there's also stories of dragons all over the world.
Obviously? Not really. It's pretty hard to objectively quantify whether or not something is "more different" or "more similar." It's particularly hard to do it when given a giant laundry list that would take hours if not days to properly analyze, so it's hardly obvious given the source you've provided us. I also don't see how it's relevant, or why this topic was posted in this particular sub-forum. 
fallingblood
Agnostic Theist
So? The Flood stories usually have the same basic message though.
otokage007
Well-Known Member
which one?
outhouse
Atheistically
some of these are not even flood history, some are flood mythology and never happened.
some, water doesnt even apply, and when theology applies to a flood story, wet people are not even on the menu.
so for floods we have
historical floods
mythological floods
theological floods
flood legends
flood fables
flood songs
flood dances
ect ect
fallingblood
Agnostic Theist
Flood stories, in general (and I'm talking about the myths) are speaking about creation recreated. It is a second try. It shows that our previous faults are washed away, and we have a new life. One can find this throughout nearly all flood myths.
Man of Faith
Well-Known Member
Flood myths all over the world, could mean there was a global flood and the stories carried after the Ark as people multiplied and moved over the earth, with the stories passed down from generation to generation verbally. Of course we would expect the stories to be embellished and changed after many generations of verbal story telling.
And if God created all the animals in one day, then we would expect man to live with dinosaurs, and the dragon myths could be the stories of man living with dinosaurs.
And if God created all the animals in one day, then we would expect man to live with dinosaurs, and the dragon myths could be the stories of man living with dinosaurs.
We would expect a global Deluge to remain in mankind's collective memory. We would also expect the truth to be obscured by embellishments and storytelling as time passed and national groups engaged in false religion. I believe these Flood legends confirm the fact that such an event did,indeed, occur.
oldbadger
Skanky Old Mongrel!
Agnostic75 wrote of these floods:-The stories obviously show far more differences than similarities.
I am absolutely delighted that you up/downloaded all this for us to read! Brilliant!
I like the Welsh one:- Dwyfan and Dwyfach escaped in a mastless ship with pairs of every sort of living creature. They landed in Prydain (Britain) and repopulated the world.
But the Welsh one seems very similar to the Biblical one! What's the problem? Are you saying that if the Flood story is exaggerated or wrong, that God does not exist? There was a huge flood which rose so high that it cut off Britain from Europe, and this same flood affected the whole of the rest of the World, probably causing some of these reports. It was VAST AND DEEP! And somebody mentioned dragons........ People were carrying tin from Cornwall to the Middle East several thousand years ago (for instance)....... People got about, and a report of a Nile crocodile would do nicely for any dragon.
Thanks again for those stories..... I am going to read the whole lot!
I am absolutely delighted that you up/downloaded all this for us to read! Brilliant!
I like the Welsh one:- Dwyfan and Dwyfach escaped in a mastless ship with pairs of every sort of living creature. They landed in Prydain (Britain) and repopulated the world.
But the Welsh one seems very similar to the Biblical one! What's the problem? Are you saying that if the Flood story is exaggerated or wrong, that God does not exist? There was a huge flood which rose so high that it cut off Britain from Europe, and this same flood affected the whole of the rest of the World, probably causing some of these reports. It was VAST AND DEEP! And somebody mentioned dragons........ People were carrying tin from Cornwall to the Middle East several thousand years ago (for instance)....... People got about, and a report of a Nile crocodile would do nicely for any dragon.
Thanks again for those stories..... I am going to read the whole lot!
Because the word dinosaur did not exist untill fairly recently, so they were generally called dragons. Stories of dragons all over the world indicate that dinosaurs did coexist with man recently.
Look at this:
Evidence of Dinosaurs at Angkor - Answers in Genesis
http://www.answersingenesis.org/assets/images/articles/2007/01/angkor-zoom.jpg
That looks like a dinosaur to me
If you believe the bible, there are descriptions of dinosaurs in the book of Job.
There are also plenty of reports of dinosaur sightings in recent times
Sea monsters
A living dinosaur?
Exactly. There are also many garden of eden myths around the world, the one at the forefront of my mind being pandoras box.
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ImmortalFlame
Woke gremlin
Are you serious?Because the word dinosaur did not exist untill fairly recently, so they were generally called dragons. Stories of dragons all over the world indicate that dinosaurs did coexist with man recently.
Look at this:
Evidence of Dinosaurs at Angkor - Answers in Genesis
That looks like a dinosaur to me
Thief
Rogue Theologian
Similar to that Aztec God? (Mexico)
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otokage007
Well-Known Member
Because the word dinosaur did not exist untill fairly recently, so they were generally called dragons. Stories of dragons all over the world indicate that dinosaurs did coexist with man recently.
Look at this:
Evidence of Dinosaurs at Angkor - Answers in Genesis
http://www.answersingenesis.org/assets/images/articles/2007/01/angkor-zoom.jpg
That looks like a dinosaur to me
If you believe the bible, there are descriptions of dinosaurs in the book of Job.
There are also plenty of reports of dinosaur sightings in recent times
Sea monsters
A living dinosaur?
Exactly. There are also many garden of eden myths around the world, the one at the forefront of my mind being pandoras box.
I think that maybe ancient people found some fossiles or bones and their imagination did the rest.
quetzalcoatl
How do you know what sort of physical evidence a global flood would leave behind?
Geologists have found evidence (marine fossils) that mountain ranges were once under water. There is plenty of water on earth today to inundate the land masses. A sudden, rapid climate change occurred in the past. Large numbers of mammals were killed and then quick frozen. Further, we have the testimony of reliable witnesses to the Flood, most notably, Jesus Christ. Was Jesus being childish when he pointed to the global Flood as a warning for people today? (Matthew 24:37-39) I think not.
