Chuck

So they would not have taken back with them a flood myth from Proto-Indo-Europeans.

So it all kind of makes sense.

Sure.

And again, if you live in your riverside village and you don't get to travel very far from there and everything you know of gets destroyed, again, it could be, you know, lend support to the idea that it gets translated as a worldwide flood.

And if everyone's having these localized floods, which happened, you know, there's always been floods, then not necessarily of the 40 days and 40 nights variety, but

But when things are passed around orally and then they get rewritten, things get kind of mixed up.

Yeah, and speaking of laying your things on other cultures, the third one is Christian missionaries.

And there's evidence of this happening.

They would go and tell the story of Noah's great flood, especially when colonization was happening too.

And between missionaries and colonization, all these other cultures picked up on that original biblical flood tale.

I don't know if we should call it a flood myth or flood tale at this point.

What should we call it?

Okay, diluvian myth.

That sounds a little more academic.

So yeah, so Christian missionaries did this.

And I think this is also evidence in the fact that the South Pacific didn't really have one until 1814 when they came into contact with Christian missionaries.

And then all of a sudden they had the Maori flood myths.

Indeed.

I think we should take a break.

And I'm going to go blow my nose.