THE FLOOD PART I

Most flood myths contain a culture hero who strives to ensure his rebirth.  Many believe that flood myths' originated from the findings of fossils, seashells and fish skeletal remains in unusual places such as mountain tops.

Native Americans also expressed this belief in their early encounters with the European's.  Some geologists theorize that great and instant flooding of rivers in the distant past might have influenced these legends.

Tidal waves could also be part of this theory in coastal areas. The Ryan Pitman theory argues that around B.C.5600 a catastrophic flood occurred from the Medeterainian Sea and flowed into the Black Sea.

There is also speculation that a large tidal wave from the Thera eruption dated 1630-1600 B.C. was part of folklore that evolved into Deucalion myth. The tidal wave hit the Aegean Sea and Crete but it did not affect the Greek islands.

Because the Thera Title wave didn't affect Greece one can conclude that the wave had a local versus a regional affect.  There is also the thought that a meteor or a comet crashed into the Indian Ocean around 3000 BCE, which created the Burckle Crater and generated a tidal wave that flooded coastal lands.

Lake Agassi which covered most of Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Minnesota and eastern North Dakota had significant drainage periods in 13000 B.C. And 8400 B.C. The last drainage occurred when Hudson Bay area had a dramatic warming and Hudson Bay melted. This massive lake drained into the Mississippi River Valley, and into the Gulf or Mexico.  It also was draining into Lake Superior, and Hudson Bay, which leads into the Arctic Ocean.

This lake was larger than all of the Great Lakes combined in volume of water, in contained more water than all of the lakes in the world today combined.

This occurred in less than a year and raised the world wide water levels by nine feet. This had a significant impact on climate, sea levels, and possibly early human civilizations worldwide.  A major influx of fresh water was released into the Arctic Ocean had an effect on ocean currents, and a cooling of the oceans.

The 13,000 B.C. drainage is associated with the Big Freeze! This lasted seventy years, which happened 12,800 years ago. It is thought that this happened as a result of the melting of North American ice fields.