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       2 = [1-2d] The Great Flood: Flood Myths
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       [1-2d] - NOAH MYTH - BIBLE GREAT FLOOD - FLOOD MYTHS ..GREAT
       FLOOD MYTHS ..GREAT FLOOD MYTHS - GREAT FLOOD PROTECTION - AREAS
       LACKING SEDIMENTARY ROCK - UNFLOODED LANDS - UNFLOODED BEDROCK -
       GC CHRONOLOGY - COMBINED CATACLYSMS
       =========================Postby Lloyd » Fri Nov 06, 2015 8:56 pm
       __NOAH MYTH
       - there's a good chance that Noah and the ark and the animals on
       it may have been an apparition in the sky and that the
       "fountains of the great deep" referred to the sky too, since
       most of the ancients seem to have referred to the sky as the
       "great deep", also as the ocean. ...
       _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Postby webolife» Tue Dec 22, 2015
       5:08 pm
       __BIBLE GREAT FLOOD
       Refer to Genesis 1:14 [Creation Day 4] for the pre-flood season
       reference, along with Gen. 2:4-6; and to God's promise in
       Genesis 8:22 [the post-flood "initiation" of the principle of
       uniformity] for seasons based on climate/weather.
       =========================Postby Lloyd » Mon Jan 18, 2016 9:13 pm
       __FLOOD MYTHS
       The chart I posted above is evidence of a flood that occurred at
       the same time in most of the world, since most of those myths
       have important elements in common: major flooding and people and
       sometimes animals being saved in a large vessel.
       - Some cultures may have gotten their flood myths from other
       cultures. And it seems possible that there were vessels in
       several parts of the world where people and animals were saved
       from drowning. It's also possible that the vessel containing
       people and animals was an apparition in the sky as sometimes
       discussed among Saturn theorists. Gordon is the one who
       suggested that nearly all of the sedimentary rock strata
       worldwide were deposited all at once during the Great Flood, and
       that suggests that where there is no sedimentary rock on
       continents, there was possibly no major flooding, which means
       many people and animals may have survived in those locations,
       which are shown in the map below in the areas of Precambrian
       surface rock.
       Great Flood Deposits
  HTML http://www.geo.msu.edu/geogmich/images/precambrian_rocks_and_mobile_belts.JPG
       Image
       - I think there's a reasonable amount of consensus among Saturn
       theorists. They seem to agree that the polar planetary
       conjunction lasted quite a while, then the configuration
       destabilized and the planets and small objects in the sky
       appeared to behave chaotically. There were upheavals on Earth
       and a great flood about 4,500 years ago. Unusual electrical
       effects were seen. There was also rapid continental drift. An
       Ice Age followed. The planets soon found their orbital paths
       around the Sun; the Moon appeared in the sky and the new order
       prevailed. And civilization rebuilt in Egypt and Sumer firstly.
       - Since nearly all the sedimentary strata were deposited by the
       flood and the fossils formed primarily at that time, the map
       above shows that there were several places around the world
       where there was little if any flooding and that's where people,
       animals and some plants survived best. Due to the fall of many
       meteors, the world's forests and grasslands caught fire, which
       led to coal deposits within the sedimentary areas. As Mike
       Fischer explains at
  HTML http://newgeology.us
       , it makes more sense
       that continental drift didn't occur until a few hundred years
       after the Great Flood. And the movement of the northern
       continents toward the north pole is what froze the animals in
       the north. Velikovsky had thought that the Earth's axis had
       shifted, causing Alaska and Siberia to come close to the Arctic
       Circle, but rapid continental drift explains things much better
       than does a pole shift.
       ====================postby Lloyd » Tue May 31, 2016 9:59 am
       __GREAT FLOOD MYTHS
       - THOTH CLUES TO THE GREAT FLOOD Part 1
       -
  HTML http://saturniancosmology.org/files/thoth/thoth.1998.08.txt
       - A BRIEF ORIENTATION David Talbott
       ... WHY SHOULD WE CARE ABOUT MYTH?
       ... Myth is, I believe, a window to early human history, a more
       intense period of history than we've realized. The myths have
       their roots in a time of celestial catastrophe, and more often
       than not the appearance of confusion results from viewing myth
       as something other than what it is. In the course of cultural
       evolution and scientific advance, we left behind the fabled
       "long ago," whose images seemed wholly out of touch with our own
       world. Yet my personal conviction is that ancient myth, when
       seen as a symbolic record of earth-shaking events in the sky,
       will permanently change man's view of his celestial environment.
       - BUT YOUR CONCLUSIONS ARE NOT THOSE OF OTHERS WHO DEVOTED
       LIFETIMES TO THE STUDY OF MYTH.
       ... Many common themes run through the folklore of diverse
       cultures. From ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia to the Americas,
       from India to China, Scandinavia, Africa, and the Pacific
       Islands, one finds surprisingly similar accounts: celestial
       temples and cities, a lost paradise or "Garden of Eden," a
       cosmic mountain, a flaming serpent or dragon in the sky -- and
       surprisingly similar stories of global calamity ranging from
       wars of the gods, to a great flood or a devastating rain of fire
       and gravel. If we'll look at these collective memories
       carefully, it will change our understanding of the past. Many of
       the myths concern planets, but the accounts make no sense to us
       in terms of the movement of these remote bodies today. Why did
       the planets, these little pinpricks of light, play such a
       powerful role in the mythical "age of the gods"? Along with
       others working in this field, I've come to interpret the myths
       and drawings and ritual practices from a new vantage point. Here
       is the conclusion in a nutshell: A few thousand years ago, the
       sky did not look anything like it appears today! Planets hung as
       gigantic, sometimes terrifying bodies above the ancient
       stargazers. In periods of stability this involved incredible
       beauty, but there were also periods of mind-altering catastrophe
       -- the most traumatic experiences in human history.
       - WHAT IS YOUR EVIDENCE FOR THIS?
       - The primary evidence comes from ancient pictures and
       chronicles, submitted to extensive cross-referencing. By
       comparing accounts from around the world, one can begin to
       reconstruct the way the sky looked in ancient times. Is it
       possible that the myths and pictographs recorded, in a language
       unique to the starworshippers, large-scale events we've
       forgotten? By keeping that possibility firmly in mind, the
       researcher will begin to identify crucial themes of myth --
       themes found on every continent, but pointing to an alien sky.
       As one begins to see the past differently, recent space age
       discoveries will take on a new significance. Our probes of other
       planets, such as the Mariner explorations of Mars, the Voyager
       missions to Jupiter and Saturn, and more recently the Magellan
       mapping of Venus, the Galileo probe of Jupiter, and the Mars
       Surveyor have produced many stunning images of the planets and
       their moons, together with undeniable evidence of large-scale
       catastrophe within the planetary system. Taken as a whole, these
       stark profiles of our neighbors challenge traditional theories
       claiming slow and uneventful planetary evolution. Moreover, a
       new possibility arises from a reconsideration of the historical
       material: the possibility that at least some of the horrendous
       scars on our planetary neighbors resulted from events witnessed
       by man not all that long ago.
       - WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THE STATEMENT THAT THE PLANETS APPEARED AS
       "GIGANTIC BODIES IN THE SKY"?
       - At the core of the argument is the idea that several planets
       were once joined in a spectacular gathering of planets, together
       with gases and dust, smaller moons and cosmic debris. For
       prehistoric man -- who witnessed all of this -- the effect was a
       massive celestial display in the northern sky. I've called this
       celestial assembly "the polar configuration" because in its
       stable phases it was centered on the north celestial pole. In
       the beginning, the primary form was the planet Saturn,
       stationary but immense in the sky. Numerous lines of evidence
       suggest that Saturn once towered over man and inspired the most
       dramatic leaps in human imagination the world has ever known.
       Our work puts a new emphasis on the unusual celestial events
       reflected in the myths. When you first dive into world
       mythology, all of your prior training will tell you to dismiss
       the myth-makers as fabricators or victims of hallucination. But
       there's another way to see the myths. Ancient man experienced
       extraordinary events, then strove to remember and to reenact
       them in every way possible. The result was not only a global
       mythology, but entirely new forms of human expression. And the
       whole range of expressions -- sacrifices to the gods, wars of
       conquest, monumental construction, pictographic representations,
       and endless celebrations of the lost age of the gods -- left us
       a massive reservoir of evidence. These highly novel expressions
       are, in fact, the distinguishing characteristics of the first
       civilizations.
       - BUT WHY SHOULD WE BELIEVE THE SKY HAS CHANGED SO DRASTICALLY?
       - The best I can ask for is a willingness to consider an
       argument. I could show you, for example, that certain celestial
       images preoccupied ancient man to the point of an obsession. A
       great cosmic wheel in the sky. The pyramid of the sun. The eye
       of heaven. Also the ship of heaven, a spiraling serpent, the
       raging goddess, and four luminous "winds" of the sky. The
       problem for conventional perspectives is that these images are
       far, far removed from anything we see in the heavens today. But
       that is only the beginning of the theoretical challenge. As soon
       as you realize that far-flung cultures, though employing
       different symbols, tell a unified story, all of the previous
       "explanations" of myth collapse. Of course the point will not be
       proven in a few sentences, and not in a few pages. But the more
       you learn on this subject, the more compelling the collective
       memory becomes.
       - SO YOU ARE CHALLENGING THE IDEA THAT THINGS HAVE NOT REALLY
       CHANGED THAT MUCH WITHIN THE SOLAR SYSTEM.
       - Yes, we are challenging an intellectual system as a whole.
       What is at stake here are the pillars of the modern world view.
       How could it be that the sky has completely changed in a few
       thousand years? Our textbooks do not talk about such a thing.
       When instructing us on the history of the solar system, the
       evolution of our planet, the birth of man, the origins of
       civilization, no one speaks of an unstable solar system, of
       interplanetary upheaval, or of wholesale changes in the
       celestial order. When the popular astronomer Carl Sagan
       presented his impressive exposition on the nature of things,
       called Cosmos, he didn't ask if we may have misunderstood our
       past. Rather, Sagan's expressed view -- the official view of
       science for many years -- fits comfortably within the textbooks
       on astronomy, geology, biology, anthropology, and ancient
       history. When we launched the U.S. Space program in the late
       50s, then devoted billions of dollars to exploring neighboring
       planets, no one thought to ask if the planets might have
       followed different courses in earlier times, whether recent
       disturbances of the planetary system might have left their
       tell-tale marks on these remote bodies. So when our cameras and
       measuring devices reached the planets Mars and Venus, and the
       Voyager probes provided spectacular glimpses of Jupiter and
       Saturn -- well, we were left with a hundred enigmas and
       unanswered questions. And yes, there's a certain irony to this.
       The prevailing view of myth proclaims that, through science, man
       escaped the bonds of superstition and make believe. But now, in
       the twentieth century -- the age of science and reason -- it is
       myth and symbol that will provide the lost key to the past, the
       key to a new understanding of the solar system and of human
       origins. At the heart of this claim is a bedrock principle: the
       myth-making age arose from the human urge to REMEMBER [for
       future generations, because the sky had changed]; hence, the
       patterns of myth are the patterns of human memory. And if it can
       be rigorously demonstrated from cross-cultural comparison that
       numerous DIFFERENT words and symbols and mythical themes
       actually point to the SAME HIGHLY UNUSUAL EVENTS, then the
       patterns of memory will carry more weight than science has ever
       considered.
       - HOW DO YOU DISTINGUISH THESE IDEAS ABOUT "PLANETARY" MYTH FROM
       THE IDEAS OF OTHER RESEARCHERS SUCH AS JOSEPH CAMPBELL, CARL
       JUNG AND MIRCEA ELIADE?
       - Each of these impressive scholars came to discern certain
       unified layers of myth, layers our traditional cynicism about
       myth never anticipated. Perhaps the greatest contribution of
       these pioneers is their acknowledgment that the common view --
       seeing myth as random absurdity -- will not suffice to explain
       the subject. I think the late Joseph Campbell has done the most
       to awaken popular interest in myth, and he is one of my own
       favorites too. Following a comparative approach, Campbell
       brought to light quite a number of global themes. He noted, for
       example, the myths of the central sun, the world mountain, the
       flowering of creation through sacrifice, the birth of the hero,
       the terrible goddess, and so on. Any one of these themes, when
       explored in its full context, could open the door to incredible
       discovery. But Campbell, like so many others, stopped short of
       asking the most important question of all: if the celestial
       references of the myths are absent today, is it possible that
       they were present in a former time?
       - WHAT IS THE REAL MESSAGE OF MYTH, IN YOUR VIEW?
       - The mythmakers are telling us we've forgotten the very thing
       they regarded as most vital -- in fact, the source of all
       meaning to the first starworshippers. We've forgotten the age of
       the gods. We've assumed that as long as man has journeyed on our
       planet the world looked and behaved almost exactly as it does
       today. And that is the fundamental error of modern perception.
       The answer to that error is to re-envision the past. With the
       help of the ancient chroniclers, its time to bring the forgotten
       dramas -- both the beauty, and the nightmare scenarios -- into
       the light of day.
       ====================postby Lloyd » Tue May 31, 2016 10:06 am
       __GREAT FLOOD MYTHS
       - THOTH CLUES TO THE GREAT FLOOD Part 3
       -
  HTML http://saturniancosmology.org/files/thoth/thoth.1999.08.txt
       SATURN CONFIGURATION DISCUSSION
       ... CARDONA: ... If the Saturnian system was NOT captured by the
       Sun, the advent of day and night would have commenced at the
       clearing of the Saturnian nebular cloud within which the
       Saturnian system was enshrouded. In any case, whether the
       Saturnian system was, or was not, captured by the Sun, the
       Saturnian nebular, or placental, cloud would still have shielded
       the Sun from view until after Saturn's flare-up which, among
       other things, blew the placental cloud out of existence.
       ... ROBERT PREVIOUSLY: At what point does massive flooding come
       into the scenario? Do you believe that great quantities of water
       fell from the sky and/or world pillar in conjunction with the
       break-up?
       - CARDONA: >From the world pillar during the break-up,
       definitely ... [over not] even a century.
       -
  HTML http://saturniancosmology.org/files/thoth/thotiv01.txt
       - THE DEMANDS OF THE SATURNIAN CONFIGURATION THEORY: Part III
       - Excerpts from Dwardu Cardona's SIS Silver Jubilee Paper
       ... CARDONA: THE WHIRLING COLUMN
       - Once again, I cannot here present the entire string of
       evidential sources which attest to the whirling motion of the
       cosmic pillar. Instead I will merely present the opinion of four
       authorities on the subject. DC Santillana and von Dechend are
       two of many who came to the conclusion that the [visible
       Earth's] axis did twist and turn -- although they seemed
       somewhat unsure of whether it did so slowly or rapidly -- even
       if to them the axis was anything but an actual physical entity.
       So, incidentally, did Elmer Suhr when he speaks of the 'whirling
       cosmic column' and 'the whirling column of the cosmos.' In fact,
       Suhr goes on to stress: 'It is especially important to think of
       the cosmic column not as a static post but as a constantly
       whirling crucible...' Talbott, of course, also recognized this
       fact when he wrote that 'the cosmic mountain in many creation
       epics is presented as a churning, serpentine column rising along
       the world axis...' [I]t is more than obvious from descriptions
       of the Saturnian axis, as well as prehistoric Petroglyphs, that
       the polar column was a visible entity rather than a deduced
       abstraction. This was so much so that, in some cases, the axis
       was even pictured as a ladder reaching to the Saturnian sun. ...
       It is ... this bolus flow that would have given the planetary
       tornado, or Rankine vortex, its serpentine quality.
       ... THE WATERY VORTEX
       - AMY: Cardona proposes, if the polar column were actually a
       colossal tornado, that the Saturn theory demands that this, too,
       should be part of the mytho-historical record. ... [T]he tornado
       would have sucked large amounts of waters from the Earth and
       ancient man should have been aware of this, if not from
       observing the column itself, then at least from observing what
       happened when the column was severed.
       - CARDONA: [A]mong the Australian Aborigines, the great python
       is the most impressive representative of the polar column. It is
       therefore significant that this python is not only believed to
       tower up to the level of the clouds, but that he also 'brings
       about rain and flood.' The Efe pygmies of the Ituri forest tell
       of a deluge of water which gushed forth as a mighty river when
       their version of the Cosmic Tree, which was the polar column,
       was felled. Similarly, the Arawak Indians of the [Guianas] tell
       of a wondrous tree which Sigu cut down. From its stump, water
       gushed out in such quantity as to cause a deluge. This tale is
       also found among the traditions of the Cuna, who tell of their
       mischief-maker, the Tapir, chopping down the Saltwater Tree from
       which salt water gushed out to form the oceans of the world.
       Thus, Velikovsky was correct when he surmised that the water of
       the Deluge would have been salty, but not, as he believed,
       because the salt, or at least its chlorine content, originated
       from Saturn. The water was salty because it came from the same
       oceanic water the vortex had sucked up in the first place.
       ... THE FLOOD FROM THE NORTH
       - AMY: Cardona moves on to the next demand of the Saturn Theory.
       If the Deluge was [partly] the result of the collapse of a
       colossal tornado situated in the north, then the
       mytho-historical record must also contain this information. And
       it does. Among others, three American Indian tribes, the Wintus,
       the Wichita, and the Pawnee, tell different legends of the
       flood, but in each case the deluge arrives from the north.
       - CARDONA: But what of the hard sciences? Is the evidence there?
       Once again, I can only mention a few items here, but that an
       enormous flood had once swept down from the north to scour the
       land surface of North America has been suggested by J. Harlan
       Bretz. So, similarly, with C. Warren Hunt who speaks of evidence
       pointing to a flood from the north, excavating the land as it
       went before it emptied into Lake Bonneville. That Lake
       Bonneville itself also burst its bounds to cause a secondary
       flood has been documented by Robert Jarred and Harold Malde.
       What is of additional interest here is that the area once
       covered by this lake constitutes a vast salt deposit 100 square
       miles [= ten miles square] in extent. Similar signs of a vast
       scouring flood from the north have also been discovered in
       Siberia. ... [T]his flood was [not] due to the catastrophic
       melting of the northern ice cap at the end of the Ice Age
       [since, at that] time, the northern ice cap had not yet been
       formed.
       ... THE CHURNING OF THE OCEAN
       ... [T]he Indic myth from the Mahabharata and the Bhagavata
       Purana [says]: In an effort to produce ... divine nectar, both
       gods and demons used Mount Mandara as a churning stick. Winding
       the serpent Vasuki, [or] Ananta, around Mount Mandara, ...
       depicted not in the form of a mountain, but in that of a pillar
       ... the gods (at one end) and the demons (at the other) grasped
       hold of Vasuki by the head and tail and, pulling him back and
       forth, were able to rotate Mount Mandara fast enough to whisk
       the sea into an ocean of milk from which amrita was produced.
       ... [T]hus ... the mythic World Mountain and the Axis Mundi were
       one and the same. In fact, it has long been known to Indologists
       that Mount Mandara stood for the axis of the world. ... In
       Vasuki we recognize the bolus flow wrapped around the central
       vortex -- and here it is interesting to note that this entity
       was 'associated with the north,' thus locating the entire action
       in that locality. Finally, in the divinities' churning by
       pulling at the coiled Vasuki this way and that way, an echo is
       retained of the clockwise/counterclockwise rotation of the bolus
       flow as described by Jueneman.
       ... The elements contained in the myth of the churning of the
       ocean must not be thought of as uniquely Hindu in origin. In the
       Hindu myth, for instance, we see that Mandara was placed on the
       back of a tortoise. In Chinese mythology, it is Shang-ti who is
       depicted as standing on the celestial tortoise, while the
       serpent was said to have encircled the tortoise. Shang-ti's
       title was The Holy and Propitious Prince of the North Pole, who
       is usually represented as surrounded by a halo, both of which
       have special meaning to this study. It is also noteworthy that
       the symbolism of the tortoise and serpent goes at least as far
       back as the Han dynasty and was used as an emblem for the
       northern region of the world. More than that, as Lord of the
       Centre, Shang-ti was also revered as Huang-ti, who is perhaps
       better known as the Yellow Lord or Yellow Emperor. The Yellow
       Emperor has long been acknowledged to be an avatar of Saturn.
       And in the Japanese Kojiki we learn of the Heavenly Jeweled
       Spear which joined heaven to Earth and which acted as the
       churning stick responsible for the surfacing of the mythical ...
       island of Onogoro [in the sky].
       =========================Postby Lloyd » Mon Dec 28, 2015 12:13
       am
       __GREAT FLOOD PROTECTION
       - It's certainly possible that there are or were physical ETs
       who planted us on the Earth and saved enough living things in
       times of cataclysms to repopulate the planet afterwards. But I'm
       inclined more to think that it's angels who do those things.
       There seems to be more evidence that angels or spirits exist
       than that ETs exist. The evidence of UFOs etc could actually be
       evidence of angels, as well as mankind's own recent inventions
       to some extent. Where the Bible speaks about God, it seems to
       mean angels of God. For example, the beings who visited Abraham
       before the destruction of Sodom and Gemorah were referred to as
       Lord, men and angels. The story of Moses and the burning bush
       where God spoke to him is repeated in the Book of Acts, I think,
       and there it's stated, I think by Stephen, that it was an angel
       who spoke to Moses. So I think the Bible only refers to the
       doings of angels, not really to those of "God". If I were an
       advanced being, I think I'd certainly prefer to have an immortal
       spirit body, than a mortal physical one, if I could manage it. I
       do believe in holistic, infinitely caring consciousness by the
       way.
       =========================Postby Lloyd » Sun Jan 17, 2016 8:17 pm
       __AREAS LACKING SEDIMENTARY ROCK
       Gordon, do you think sedimentary rock strata locations indicate
       where the Great Flood occurred? And do you think where there are
       no sedimentary rock strata, the Flood did not occur? Here's a
       map of Precambrian strata locations in a light pinkish color,
       while sedimentary locations are light greenish:
  HTML http://higheredbcs.wiley.com/legacy/college/levin/0471697435/chap_tut/images/nw0167-nn.jpg
       The site is:
  HTML http://higheredbcs.wiley.com/legacy/college/levin/0471697435/chap_tut/chaps/chapter08-07.html
       The main locations where Flood deposits are minimal or none are
       in much of eastern Canada & Greenland, Antarctica, eastern South
       America, southwestern Africa and other spotted locations in
       Eurasia & Australia.
       If the Flood was not significant in those areas, then organisms
       could have probably survived there without an ark.
       _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Postby webolife» Tue Jan 19, 2016
       12:40 pm
       __UNFLOODED LANDS
       I say that the frequently fossiliferous Cambrian and "above"
       sequences were deposited during the flood, in at least three
       major stages marked by the PreCambrian/Cambrian ["explosion"],
       PT [Permian/Triassic extinctions] and KT [Cretaceous/Tertiary
       extinctions] stratigraphic boundaries found globally. Add the
       Pliocene/Pleistocene groupings as a 4th major ending event [the
       Ice Epoch].
       No, I would not say that there was no major flooding where there
       are no sedimentary rocks, nor that possibly living things
       survived on land not flooded. I do hold that some sea creatures
       survived the flood, as there is no indication in the biblical
       record of Noah being commissioned to save them; and in geology
       we find that fossilized sea creatures are found generally buried
       in strata beneath the fossils of land creatures -- this "first
       burial" trend would be expected since their habitats are "lower"
       than those of the land creatures. Standard model "shallow sea"
       explanations are to me indicators of creatures washed over onto
       and buried on the ancient continental shelves or lowland areas,
       which could be nearly anywhere on the ancient supercontinent
       before the formation of the boundary [brake] mountain ranges.
       The Precambrian rock areas may have not been flooded or were
       washed clean as they were being uplifted toward the end of the
       flood into the exposed areas they now are found. There are no
       indicators from fossil evidence or otherwise that these "shield"
       regions were areas where anything survived the cataclysm;
       however the lack of fossils and the metamorphic/intrusive
       morphologies of Precambrian sequences in general do place them
       as being formed before the deluge, possibly primordial, or as
       vestiges of the original uplift of the continents above the
       primordial sea.
       Other areas where there are no [exposed] sedimentary sequences
       are regions of "recent" [last stages of flood and post-flood]
       volcanism, so these would be an "afterthought" of the cataclysm,
       although the causation of these later events was definitely put
       in place by the flood apparati. Hence volcanic arcs are found
       adjacent/parallel to boundary ranges and trenches, etc. and/or
       other stressed areas of the continents.
       =========================Postby Lloyd » Sun Jan 24, 2016 5:39 pm
       __UNFLOODED BEDROCK
       Since the Great Flood likely deposited nearly all of the
       sedimentary rock strata, why did it not deposit anything in the
       numerous shield regions? Since Noah's ark is likely to have
       referred to the Saturn Configuration, the actual survival of
       humans and animals would be likely due to one or two of two
       possibilities:
       1. the Flood did not cover the entire surface of the Earth (some
       or all of the shield regions);
       2. humans in many locations independently took to boats and
       ships for the duration of the Flood and animals lived on some of
       the ships and/or on floating mats of logs and debris.
       _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Postby webolife» Mon Jan 25, 2016
       4:03 am
       The shield regions are Pre-Cambrian exposures that do show some
       large-scale erosive/depositional action, eg. drumlins on the
       Canadian shield in Ontario; just because there are no major
       stratigraphic sequences doesn't mean they were untouched by
       flood tides or currents.
       --------------------Postby Grey Cloud » Sun Dec 13, 2015 7:16 am
       __GC CHRONOLOGY
       ... My views? Multiple catastrophes with the last major one
       approx 12,000 years ago. The last of the lesser approx 1200BCE.
       I'm more interested in the human side of things rather than the
       Earth/science side.
       - ... If there was a 'global' flood then it would have been
       12000 ya. It can't have been either the MBA or LBA collapses as
       there were still several peoples, eg, Egyptians, Indians etc who
       didn't completely collapse. ...
       --------------------Postby Grey Cloud » Sun Dec 13, 2015 7:37 am
       ... (As I see it) Venus and Mars were definitely involved in the
       LBA collapse as were Jupiter and the Sun. Homer makes this
       clear. Whether Venus was involved in any of the previous
       incidents is hard to say partly because it is difficult to know
       in which time period a story takes place.
       --------------------Postby Grey Cloud » Sun Dec 13, 2015 1:44 pm
       ... Nanodiamond-Rich Layer across Three Continents Consistent
       with Major Cosmic Impact at 12,800 Cal BP
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       _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Postby webolife» Tue Dec 29, 2015
       4:12 am
       __COMBINED CATACLYSMS
       As for tsunami sediments, this objection against tsunami action
       is not well thought out; consider this view:
       A tsunami is simply a water delivery system. Whatever materials
       are there to be delivered, and whatever organisms or objects are
       there to be buried, these are what will appear in the resulting
       deposits. Remember that the deluge was not just a passive
       submergence of land, but rather powerful currents flowing over
       the land and eventually laying their deposits over vast sections
       of the low topography. Today's tsunamis operate in low coastal
       areas, washing in and back out again not able to pass higher
       ground. A different nature of deposit will be left in this
       scenario.
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