Was The Biblical Flood A Description Of The Deluge From Rising Sea Levels At The End Of The Ice Age?

[Anglojew]

Almost all cultures have a flood myth (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_myth)in which a great flood destroys civilisation. The best known is obviously the Biblical account of Noah and the Ark. The Epic of Gilgamesh is another well known flood myth but there are dozens if not hundreds more that have survived in the writings of ancient civilisations.

The last Ice Age, the last glacial period, lasted from approximately 110,000 to 12,000 years ago. During this period much of the Earth was frozen with lower sea levels and as a result very different coast lines.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e4/Last_glacial_vegetation_map.png

The Near Eastern and European coastlines looked something like the map below;

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/Ice_Age_Europe_map.png

It is my contention that the flood myths are recollections of the ancient civilisations (towns and cities) destroyed by sea levels rising due to the retreat of the Pleistocene glaciers. Ancient civilisations all tell of far older more advanced civisations around this period and it is also no coincidence that Plato's description of Atlantis's destruction, by water, was "more than 9,000 years" before his day placing this right around the end of the last Ice Age. Indeed the Orion correlation theory concludes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_correlation_theory) that the Giza pyramid complex dates from before 12,000 years ago.

The Biblical and other flood myths are recollections of ancient advanced civilisations destroyed by the global cataclysm of rising sea levels due to the last Ice Age ending.

[Proctor]

Very interesting theory right there. Regarding Plato, the ancient Greeks probably knew far more about ancient history than we know now, many of the texts they had to go off of we simply don't have anymore.

[Anglojew]

Very interesting theory right there. Regarding Plato, the ancient Greeks probably knew far more about ancient history than we know now, many of the texts they had to go off of we simply don't have anymore.

Yes, most of them were based on far older Egyptian texts. It's often pointed out that, even using mainstream archaeological timelines it is a curious anomaly that the supposedly oldest pyramids are also the most advanced. This would indicate ancient Egypt is far older than traditionally believed.

[Duke]

if it happened today


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQumsIh0IOc

thats 80m of sea level rise


As for theory, great flood could have happen after ice age, after all that ice melted and flooded areas that were not beneath the ice

[Linebacker]

Noah had to take two of every kind in his arc,then why did he not take Neanderthals?They were around in the last ice age.

Was he a scrawny incel who was jealous of their powerful muscular physicality and did not take them on his arc on purpose,because they were getting all his women?There is something to speculate on.

[Anglojew]

if it happened today


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQumsIh0IOc

thats 80m of sea level rise


As for theory, great flood could have happen after ice age, after all that ice melted and flooded areas that were not beneath the ice

Yes, also there would have been massive weather and environmental changes. Ancient Egypt would have been temperate.

[Anglojew]

Noah had to take two of every kind in his arc,then why did he not take Neanderthals?They were around in the last ice age.

Was he a scrawny incel who was jealous of their powerful muscular physicality and did not take them on his arc on purpose,because they were getting all his women?There is something to speculate on.

There's still about 18,000 years between that -Neanderthal- period and the end of the last Ice Age.

[Proctor]

Yes, most of them were based on far older Egyptian texts. It's often pointed out that, even using mainstream archaeological timelines it is a curious anomaly that the supposedly oldest pyramids are also the most advanced. This would indicate ancient Egypt is far older than traditionally believed.

Here's the furthest back I can find of Egyptians on Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naqada_III

I find it odd how all of these near catalyst events happened within the span of 50 years


The first hieroglyphs
The first graphical narratives on palettes
The first regular use of serekhs
The first truly royal cemeteries
Possibly the first example of irrigation
The invention of sail navigation[3] (independently from its prior invention in the Persian Gulf 2,000 years earlier)[4]


I mean, this isn't stuff that just happens over night, I think this gives more credit to what you say.

[Anglojew]

Here's the furthest back I can find of Egyptians on Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naqada_III

I find it odd how all of these near catalyst events happened within the span of 50 years


The first hieroglyphs
The first graphical narratives on palettes
The first regular use of serekhs
The first truly royal cemeteries
Possibly the first example of irrigation
The invention of sail navigation[3] (independently from its prior invention in the Persian Gulf 2,000 years earlier)[4]


I mean, this isn't stuff that just happens over night, I think this gives more credit to what you say.

The ancient Egyptians believed they migrated from the "Land of Punt" which may have been somewhere under the ocean today.

[Duke]

fast melting of ice at the end of ice age would make such a disaster, because of huge masses of water moving fast, and with rise of temperature, lots of rain storms would follow as well, it would indeed look biblical

[Ctwentysevenj]

Noah had to take two of every kind in his arc,then why did he not take Neanderthals?They were around in the last ice age.

Was he a scrawny incel who was jealous of their powerful muscular physicality and did not take them on his arc on purpose,because they were getting all his women?There is something to speculate on.

Did Noah let people with Monobrows on board? Maybe he thought well in a couple of thousands years, there will be an online forum called Apricity, so I better take monobrows, so members on Apricity have people to troll about.

[Anglojew]

Did Noah let people with Monobrows on board? Maybe he thought well in a couple of thousands years, there will be an online forum called Apricity, so I better take monobrows, so members on Apricity have people to troll about.

Yes, obviously.