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   From: sot@tioat.ath.cx   
      
   Bill Gamelson wrote:   
   > My faith in God and the Bible is still sound,   
      
   I believe that some of the myths recorded in the Bible came from   
   earlier myths.  This is just something I believe.  I also believe   
   that faith should not be used to hide truth.  That is my faith.   
      
   They found some clay tablets with an interesting tale carved into   
   them at the royal library in Nineveh.  They appear to date back to a   
   very remote time... long before the Bible was written.   
      
      
   A flood he raised, and he spake saying in the night, 'I will cause   
   it to rain from heaven heavily.'   
      
   In the day that I celebrated his festival the day which he had   
   appointed; fear I had, I entered to the midst of the ship, and shut   
   my door; to guide the ship, to Buzursadirabi the pilot, the palace I   
   gave to his hand.   
      
   The raging of a storm in the morning arose, from the horizon of heaven   
   extending and wide Vul in the midst of it thundered, and Nebo and   
   Saru went in front; the throne bearers went over mountains and   
   plains; the destroyer Nergal overturned; Ninip went in front, and   
   cast down; the spirits carried destruction; in their glory they   
   swept the earth; of Vul the flood, reached to heaven; the bright   
   earth to a waste was turned; the surface of the earth, like   
   ....   
   it swept; it destroyed all life, from the face of the earth   
   ....   
   the strong tempest over the people, reached to heaven. Brother saw   
   not his brother, it did not spare the people.   
      
   In heaven the gods feared the tempest, and Sought refuge; they   
   ascended to the heaven of Anu.   
      
   The gods, like dogs with tails hidden, couched down.   
      
      
   Excerpt from the eleventh tablet of the Gilgamesh epic.   
    http://www.sacred-texts.com/ane/index.htm   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)