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You got to point that out.

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That's right.

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And yet another right here in the, well, and now the U.S.

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of A., but in the 1980s and 90s, they investigated flood myths of the indigenous peoples in the Pacific Northwest, and they found out that their flood myths, this was a little more recent.

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This was around 1700 A.D., but the idea is that there was a magnitude nine earthquake that caused a tsunami unleashing these big waves from basically sort of

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Vancouver Island, all the way down to Northern California.

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And then sometimes it's just a culture like pre-science, again, making sense out of finding weird things, like the Zuni people in the southwest of the United States.

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Obviously not back then.

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They saw these ancient marine animals and seashells in the fossils that they were finding, and they said, well, this is part of our creation story.

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There was a great flood, and that's how this stuff got here.

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Right after this.

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So, yeah, you know, one of the things that's interesting to look at is how these things are โ€“ how these myths are similar.

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And one way that a lot of these flood myths are similar is that โ€“ and we've already seen a little bit in what we've talked about is oftentimes it's a man and a woman, usually a man and a wife, who are charged with โ€“

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Gathering up the animals with repopulating the earth afterward, saving the species essentially.

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There's usually a warning, whether it's Noah's flood myth or all the others where, you know, someone comes along and says, you know, you better get your act together earth or tell everybody on earth, you know, you were the messenger to get their act together or else I will rain down rain upon you.

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Yeah.

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That's right.

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Another one is that we started out as an ocean and nothing but ocean.

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So this is just a reset to that return to our original state here on planet Earth.

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And there are a lot of cultures around the world that basically thought that we started out as an ocean from ancient Egypt, Norse, I think in Japan as well.