Black Sea Geomythology is an emerging discipline that combines geology, archaeology, mythology and history to investigate the possibility that some myths may be garbled accounts of actual events that occurred in the distant past. There is strong evidence that some myths originated more than 7,000 years ago and perhaps as many as 40,000 years ago, the group said. Thus a major challenge in geomythology is to see through the changes these stories underwent as they were passed down orally over hundreds of generations. In the talk, the origins of the Great Flood story will be examined by analyzing the biblical and Mesopotamian versions as well as possible linkages to the catastrophic flooding of the Black Sea.
Posted on: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 06:40:17 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015