Chuck

It makes perfect sense.

Yeah, I love this stuff.

Before science came along—

All humans did from the moment they could sort of form thoughts was try and explain what was going on around them from rain and thunder to volcanoes and floods.

And I don't know.

I think it's super interesting.

It's almost like these proto-early warning systems.

Right.

They just didn't really know how to explain the science of it.

Yeah, and it's like you said earlier, it's a tough road to hoe, though, for scientists these days if they take this on because, you know, you have mixed results when you go back and you look at these tales.

Some of them may just be folk tales and legends, and some may have kernels of truth.

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.