Deltas are good for da blues, and for people who like to live below sealevel until a big hurricane comes, but that may be it. ;')
Noah's Flood:
The New Scientific Discoveries
About The Event That Changed History
by William Ryan
Walter Pitman
hardcover
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A foundling infant grew up incredibly fast and soon showed signs of fantastic strength. He earned the name "Iron-shoes" from the footwear he needed. He set out on a journey and met with and joined three other extraordinary men--
"Nose-wind", who had extraordinarily powerful breath;
"Long-rake", who crumbled mountains with his rake, and
"Waterfall", who made rivers by pissing.
They went to an old woman's home and were invited to spend the night, but the woman locked them in, and the men realized that she and her four sons were tigers in disguise.
The tigers tried to kill them by roasting the room, but Nose-wind kept it cool by his blowing.
The next day, the woman challenged them to a contest of gathering pine trees while her sons stacked them.
When it became clear that the four brothers ripped up the trees faster than the tigers could stack them, the woman set fire to the logs.
Waterfall, though, made water which not only put out the fire, but created a flood that nearly drowned the tigers.
Nose-wind blew on the water and froze it. Iron-shoes skated out and kicked the heads off the tigers, and Long-rake broke up the ice and threw it far and wide, eliminating any trace of the flood...
Hmmm...something appeared very fast, grew huge, there was a powerful storm, great heat...trees were uprooted, mountains crumbled, then the water froze suddenly, the ice was smashed and broken...
Samothrace:
The sea rose when the barriers dividing the Black Sea from the Mediterranean burst, releasing waters from the Black Sea in a great torrent that washed over part of the coast of Asia and the lowlands of Samothrace. The survivors on Samothrace retreated to the mountains and prayed for deliverance.
On being saved, they set up monuments to the event and built alters on which to continue sacrifices through the ages. Fishermen still occasionally draw up parts of stone columns in their nets, signs of cities drowned in the sea. [Frazer, pp. 167-168]
