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   From: matts2@ix.netcom.nospam   
      
   On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 23:06:53 GMT,    
   wrote:   
      
   >   
   >The book China—A History in Art tells us that one of the ancient   
   >rulers of China was Yü, “the conqueror of the Great Flood. Yü   
   >channeled flood waters into rivers and seas to resettle his people.”   
   >Mythology expert Joseph Campbell wrote about the Chinese “Period of   
   >the Great Ten,” saying: “To this important age, which terminates in a   
   >Deluge, ten emperors were assigned in the early Chou-time mythology.   
   >Hence, it appears that what we are viewing here may be a local   
   >transformation of the series of the old Sumerian king list.” Campbell   
   >then cited other items from Chinese legends that appeared to   
   >“reinforce the argument for a Mesopotamian source.” That takes us back   
   > to the same basic source of many myths. However, the story of the   
   > Flood also appears in the Americas, for example, in Mexico during the   
   >period of the Aztecs in the 15th and 16th centuries C.E.   
      
   Yeah, China floods.   
      
   >Aztec mythology spoke of four previous ages, during the first of which   
   >the earth was inhabited by giants. (That is another reminder of the   
   >Nephilim, the giants referred to in the Bible at Genesis 6:4.) It   
   >included a primeval flood legend in which “the waters above merge with   
   >those below, obliterating the horizons and making of everything a   
   >timeless cosmic ocean.” The god controlling rain and water was Tlaloc.   
   >However, his rain was not obtained cheaply but was given “in exchange   
   >for the blood of sacrificed victims whose flowing tears would simulate   
   >and so stimulate the flow of rain.” (Mythology—An Illustrated   
   >Encyclopedia) Another legend states that the fourth era was ruled by   
   >Chalchiuhtlicue, the water-goddess, whose universe perished by a   
   >flood. Men were saved by becoming fish!   
      
   The Hopi myth has people climbing to the top of a mountain and   
   crawling through a hole in the sky to this world, abandoning the world   
   that flooded.   
      
   > Similarly, the Incas had their Flood legends. British writer Harold   
   >Osborne states: “Perhaps the most ubiquitous features in South   
   >American myth are the stories of a deluge . . . Myths of a deluge are   
   >very widespread among both the highland peoples and the tribes of the   
   >tropical lowlands. The deluge is commonly connected with the creation   
   >and with an epiphany [manifestation] of the creator-god. . . . It is   
   >sometimes regarded as a divine punishment wiping out existing   
   >humankind in preparation for the emergence of a new race.”   
      
   > Likewise, the Maya in Mexico and Central America had their Flood   
   >legend that involved a universal deluge, or haiyococab, which means   
   >“water over the earth.” Catholic bishop Las Casas wrote that the   
   >Guatemalan Indians “called it Butic, which is the word which means   
   >flood of many waters and means the final judgment, and so they believe   
   >that another Butic is about to come, which is another flood and   
   >judgment, not of water, but of fire.” Many more flood legends exist   
   >around the world, but the few already quoted serve to confirm the   
   >kernel of the legend, the historical event related in the book of   
   >Genesis.   
      
   Yep, it confirms that there are places in the world that flood.   
      
   BTW, learn to set your line length.   
      
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   Matt Silberstein   
      
   Do in order to understand.   
      
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