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Greg, >> I think you are right. Floods are very common, it is not surprising that they occur in many myths. Also, since 10,000 years age, many many (the majority?) of people have moved (as cultural lineages, if you will) from one place to another. So a flood myth found in one region may have been generated in another by the ancestors, more or less, of the same people. << Good point. In fact, some archaeologists seem to think this is exactly what happened in the region of ancient Sumeria circa about six thousand years ago. There's geological evidence of a massive flood in that area at that time. We also have a copy of a Sumerian flood legend that dates back at least four thousand years, and seems to be the ancestor of the Genesis flood account. Jon W.