[RonF]

The question that I've been wondering about is, what flood inspired the flood stories that we find in the world's major religions? A flood in Idaho is very interesting, but it would have been the tree that fell in the forest that no one heard. What flood's echo is found in the Book of Genesis? Was it a particular flood? If so, there was apparently a major flood about 7,500 years ago when the Mediterranean broke through the Straits of Bosphorous into the Black Sea. That's the one the settlements were found in, not the Mediterranean, BTW (my mistake, sorry).

[Thatcherite]

The question that I've been wondering about is, what flood inspired the flood stories that we find in the world's major religions?

It doesn't have to be one single flood. You would expect flood stories to figure large in ancient hydraulic civilisations.

[moog]

The question that I've been wondering about is, what flood inspired the flood stories that we find in the world's major religions? A flood in Idaho is very interesting, but it would have been the tree that fell in the forest that no one heard. What flood's echo is found in the Book of Genesis? Was it a particular flood? If so, there was apparently a major flood about 7,500 years ago when the Mediterranean broke through the Straits of Bosphorous into the Black Sea. That's the one the settlements were found in, not the Mediterranean, BTW (my mistake, sorry). That's what I thought it was. You may be right.

[jjmcgo]

A section of the Connecticut River was in ancient times Lake Hitchcock, covering most of northern Conn., Central Mass. and parts of NH and VT.
Now, it's a relatively narrow river with some depths unlike any river on Earth.