[blam]

"there may have been an actual Egyptian original of the story (a later Greek sojourner in Egypt reported seeing the tale engraved in some temple there), obviously written down thousands of years after all of it happened, meaning that it was folkloric long before Plato reported hearing it third- or fourth-hand."

The pyramid building 'Egyptians' arrived at about the same time as the Sumerians (probably the same people?) and they claim to have come from the east in ships. My guess is that they were refugees from an area that had gone underwater due to Ice Age melt...the tale of Atlantis may be their story of their homeland. Noah's Flood may just be another interpertation of the same flooding.

[Shanda]

Did you know that Ramses the Great had red wavy hair?