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The human race has been involved in many cataclysms. Some local, some global. These events survive in our mythologies if we care to look. Changed over eons, certainly. But still there and still with things to teach us.

My entire point being that to say one story has more basis to reality than another is a bit premature at this point and may miss a greater truth altogether. A frozen ice comet has more to do with the Norse mythos of Ymir, a frost giant, than it does with the "firmament" being divided by divine edict.

As for who witnessed some of these events. In most of them, aren't they handed down by the Gods themselves? In all likelyhood, they were either made up from whole cloth, or mutated over generations from events that were old when our ancient myths were young.

Until we figure out a way to peer back through time and witness events first hand, all we can do is guess.

" In most of them, aren't they handed down by the themselves?" In the Bible, it is handed down from God to Man, and Man wrote it down. In Norse and Germanic Mythos, it is simply known as a story. The origin is unknown or not questioned. In both cases however, it is the educated who have passed on the religion, not God (or the gods). And yes, the cataclysms are there in the stories, but given the lack of a complex language system (at least written) until around 3,700 B.C. we would assume over time, such stories would change more dramatically. Ever played "Telephone"? Divinity (a Supreme God especially) is obvious when you ask questions like that, but you still wonder. Who was the first to "know"?