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The Olive Branch
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“ Like dragonflies their [dead bodies] have filled the river. Like a raft they have moved to the edge [of the boat]. Like a raft they have moved to a river bank ” (flood-myth.com, 3/15/00).
Whether the above is fact, fiction, myth, or legend it appears that all civilizations have a strong fascin ....
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....e gods, while in the Chinese myth the emphasis is on a very practical matter, the channeling of unruly waters in such a way to make the cultivation of land possible.”( cybercomm.com ,15 March) In other words, the purpose of the flood was to create better farm land. There was no sense of divine intervention.
Continuing east, the story picks up in the Mayan ruins. The “Popol-Vuh” , the Mayans sacred book, relates the tale of the destruction from flood. They felt that the purpose of the flood wa.... |
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