[blam]

"The story of Gilgamesh involves the same releases of birds to test subsidance as does that of Noah according to a version of it in a library book we were using for my kids' history lesson on Sumerian civilization, and that's ALL I've seen."

I've read the Gilgamesh translation and I agree, the similaraties are unmistakeable. I have (all this time) accepted the idea/theory that they originated from the same source also. It's that 2,900 year gap that is the problem. Until I checked out these dates, I had just accepted that the Black Sea flood was Noah's and that it was the source of both these stories, Noah/Gilgamesh. Now I don't know what to think. Hmmmm

[blam]

See post 75,76 and 77.

[Carry_Okie]

I had just accepted that the Black Sea flood was Noah's and that it was the source of both these stories, Noah/Gilgamesh. Now I don't know what to think. Hmmmm

One would speculate that they were part of the same event; i.e., that the Black Sea flooded as a part of some larger phenomenon; your impact in the Shaat al Arab aera for example.