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The word flood is מַבּוּל mabbuwl, which also means deluge ...
That being said, I agree that there are many levels of meanings to the story of Noah that go over the heads of people who get all hung up on kangaroos.
and people that reference the vocabulary of an unverified book to give their own special insight into a meaning for a universal religion that would be self decipherable if authentic and void of requiring personalized interpretation.
if it were the same flood who wrote all the different stories ...
very funny.
that's not a joke hobelim, who would have recorded the flood from different parts of the planet if it were the same flood as referenced where all were killed but one small group of people - the knowledge of that flood would not exist as those few survivors were not in the locations you have addressed. - there would be no recording at all if true.
the meaning of Noah's parable is what is real just as many openly known aspects of antiquity's lore are real what is phony are those people that knowingly misconstrue them for their own personal gain, christians and others through their written documents.
The many hundred flood myths are from many different places and diverse regions from all over the planet. Obviously there were survivors in these different places who told the story of the flood and inserted their own superstitious explanations. Some survived by climbing trees or floating on logs or makeshift rafts. What they described was all the same. A sudden burst of torrential rain and superstorms that lasted for weeks and swept away towns and villages drowning almost everyone, even in the middle of the deserts ..
Look what happened in Houston after only 6 days of torrential rain. Use your imagination in a rational way and just think for a minute what would have happened worldwide after 40 days of torrential rain far worse than that.
Like I said the only natural explanation would be a meteor impact over a large body of water that would have instantly vaporized a months worth of torrential rain into the atmosphere not to mention the immediate and devastating effect on coastal communities from mega tsunamis encircling the globe..
Still this doesn't mean that an extraterrestrial force wasn't involved by nudging a big rock in earths direction because people had degenerated into orcs or something.
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