Comments by "oneoflokis" (@oneoflokis) on "What Graham Hancock Gets WRONG about Flood Myths" video.

No. Flood myths are universal. Anthropologists knew this already in the 19th c. I have a reprint of a 19th c book about myths etc, which says re flood myths, "common among all races, with the exception of the black." And I think he was wrong about the latter. They exist among both North and South Native Americans... Now you wouldn't EXPECT the likes of Plains Indians to have flood legends, would you? But so many Native American and other tribes do..
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@scottfuller9180 Yeah. But that's different, from a Great Flood. Flood myths were engendered by all the release of water from melting icecaps at the end of the last Ice Age.
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@scottfuller9180 Mm. Think I've read of myths concerning "great waves" deluging everything. So, you're saying that ALL "great flood" myths feature days and days of rain? Thought that was just the Biblical one? "Forty days and forty nights". Anything involving climate change is bound to involve freak weather, mind you. The end of the Ice Age = climate change. Lots of wet weather. The Sahara was lush for a few thousand years.. 🙂
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@scottfuller9180 I don't think the people who were affected by it, necessarily knew it was worldwide! Just the collectorsbof the tales, centuries and millennia afterwards, saw these correspondences! 🙂🙂
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@scottfuller9180 Well: for a START: the 19th century writers and anthropologists, who gathered and collected so many mythical stories, and wrote hundreds of books about them, probably a century and more before you were even born! THEY were in a position to make comparisons; as are later writers and anthropologists and folklorists. You know, you really don't strike me as knowing or understanding very much, to base your ideas on. Like quite a few skeptoids then... 😏
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@scottfuller9180 🙄 But you have no knowledge of folklore or anthropology so...
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@scottfuller9180 That's what it sounds like! Your arguments make no sense.
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Yes, but you see: WHAT authority do you have, to say that the gentleman is wrong?? You may be a folklorist, but isn't folklore infinitely interpretable?? And there's another thing people like you don't appear to know, but that various book authors and podcasters do. And that is, that a lot of myths and legends have astrological references, and that they (including Biblical stories) are metaphors for astrological or cosmic events. And when we're talking about "a world flood" - well no we wouldn't be talking about 100% of the world surface! We would be talking about the drowning of the continental shelves, which did happen at the end of the Ice Age, as the polar ice caps were no longer taking up all that water!! Global warming mk. I!! Thing is, you're just not very clever! 😏
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Don't be so sure... 😏 Greek mathematicians under the reign of Ptolemy KNEW the earth was a globe... It's only dumb modern people who think that the best minds of the past were clueless!
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