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   From: tuibguy1creationists@earthlink.net   
      
   jabriol wrote:   
      
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   >        Such a cataclysm as the Deluge, which washed the whole world of   
   > that time out of existence, would never be forgotten by the survivors.   
   > They would talk about it to their children and their children’s   
   > children. For 500 years after the Deluge, Shem lived on to relate the   
   > event to many generations. He died only ten years before the birth of   
   > Jacob. Moses preserved the true account in Genesis. Sometime after the   
   > Flood, when God-defying people built the Tower of Babel, Jehovah   
   > confused their language and scattered them “over all the surface of the   
   > earth.” (Ge 11:9) It was only natural that these people took with them   
   > stories of the Flood and passed them on from father to son. The fact   
   > that there are not merely a few but perhaps hundreds of different   
   > stories about that great Deluge, and that such stories are found among   
   > the traditions of many primitive races the world over, is a strong proof   
   > that all these people had a common origin and that their early   
   > forefathers shared that Flood experience in common.—   
   > These folklore accounts of the Deluge agree with some major features of   
   > the Biblical account: (1) a place of refuge for a few survivors, (2) an   
   > otherwise global destruction of life by water, and (3) a seed of mankind   
   > preserved. The Egyptians, the Greeks, the Chinese, the Druids of   
   > Britain, the Polynesians, the Eskimos and Greenlanders, the Africans,   
   > the Hindus, and the American Indians—all of these have their Flood   
   > stories. The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (Vol. 2, p. 319)   
   > states: “Flood stories have been discovered among nearly all nations and   
   > tribes. Though most common on the Asian mainland and the islands   
   > immediately south of it and on the North American continent, they have   
   > been found on all the continents. Totals of the number of stories known   
   > run as high as about 270 . . . The universality of the flood accounts is   
   > usually taken as evidence for the universal destruction of humanity by a   
   > flood and the spread of the human race from one locale and even from one   
   > family. Though the traditions may not all refer to the same flood,   
   > apparently the vast majority do. The assertion that many of these flood   
   > stories came from contacts with missionaries will not stand up because   
   > most of them were gathered by anthropologists not interested in   
   > vindicating the Bible, and they are filled with fanciful and pagan   
   > elements evidently the result of transmission for extended periods of   
   > time in a pagan society. Moreover, some of the ancient accounts were   
   > written by people very much in opposition to the Hebrew-Christian   
   > tradition.”—Edited by G. Bromiley, 1982.   
   > In times past, certain primitive people (in Australia, Egypt, Fiji,   
   > Society Islands, Peru, Mexico, and other places) preserved a possible   
   > remnant of these traditions about the Flood by observing in November a   
   > ‘Feast of Ancestors’ or a ‘Festival of the Dead.’ Such customs reflected   
   > a memory of the destruction caused by the Deluge. According to the book   
   > Life and Work at the Great Pyramid, the festival in Mexico was held on   
   > the 17th of November because they “had a tradition that at that time the   
   > world had been previously destroyed; and they dreaded lest a similar   
   > catastrophe would, at the end of a cycle, annihilate the human race.”   
   > (By Professor C. Piazzi Smyth, Edinburgh, 1867, Vol. II, pp. 390, 391)   
   > Notes the book The Worship of the Dead: “This festival [of the dead] is   
   > . . . held by all on or about the very day on which, according to the   
   > Mosaic account, the Deluge took place, viz., the seventeenth day of the   
   > second month—the month nearly corresponding with our November.” (By   
   > J. Garnier, London, 1904, p. 4) Interestingly, the Bible reports that   
   > the Flood began “in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the   
   > month.” (Ge 7:11) That “second month” corresponds to the latter part of   
   > October and the first part of November on our calendar.   
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