Chuck

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

Right after this.

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

And one way that a lot of these flood myths are similar is that – 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 –

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

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.

Yeah.

That's right.

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

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

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.

And basically, you know, it's either –

returns us to a state of water or an island above an ocean.

Yeah, then there's just angry gods, and it might not have anything to do with you doing anything wrong as a culture or getting your act together.

It's just that the gods were angry, so they kicked open the top of that mountain, and it became a volcano.

And sorry, TS for you guys.

It's good stuff.

And then people have gotten a little weird over the years with trying to explain these away.

There was a Hungarian psychoanalyst named Giza Roheim in the 1930s that said, no, the reason why we have all these flood myths

is because they're just from people's dreams, and people in ancient times drank a lot of water and peed a lot at night, and so they dreamt about floods and told stories about floods.