[betty boop]

Will check my home library later tonight and get you my cite re: the Sumerian and/or the Babylonian creation myth.

But really, the point of my reply was not to discuss ancient mythology. If you read it again, you might see that the point I raised could be just as easily satisfied by the iceberg example. Are you trying to change the subject?

Thanks for writing!

[From many - one.]

Try Iriquois and Papuan.

There is also a turtle involved in a Hind "churning of the sea" myth and soome other turtles in various meso-American tales.

[Doctor Stochastic]

But if you don't take the time to check your references, people may assume that you didn't take the time to check the validity of the rest of your posts. Others may think that you are trying to pull a fast one (like tricking people into guessing whether Moses took two or seven animals of each kind on the Ark) by slipping an incorrect comment into an otherwise well thought out article.

You do have a bunch of self-appointed referees on FR though.