Chuck

Some may have a little more truth.

So there's a lot to sort of parse through as a geologist these days if you're working as or with a geomythologist.

Yeah, there was – in 2016, there was a study that tied together one of the Chinese flood myths from about 4,000 years ago.

Basically, there was a great flood, wiped out China.

It lasted for a couple of decades.

And then this great man came along who had become emperor, Emperor Yu, and tamed the water.

Mm-hmm.

So geologists went back and they said, all right, there's an ancient landslide around that same time that dammed up a river and a lake filled up behind it in about six months or so.

And then that flooded – that river got flooded, broke through the dam, and there was this huge flood.

And they have found sediment that sort of tracks along these lines.

Then they found that Emperor Yu actually –

It turns out he may not have been, you know, magically tamed the water.

He just had a knack for early engineering in that he dredged the waters and it cleared up the river's flow.

Things returned to normal and he became emperor.

But back then it gets, you know, told as a tale of this, you know, great soon to be emperor that tames the waters when he was just good at what he was doing.

Yeah.

That's right.

That's right.

This one in the 90s, it became fairly popular.

They basically said there was an oceanographer named William Ryan and another guy named Walter Pittman.