Modern researchers underestimate the ability of preliterate man to perfectly memorize and pass on important stories. People have been memorizing the ancient Hindu texts, and all the Koran for centuries. My own son, who is dyslexic, at age 10 or 11 memorized the entire monologue of “Why Is There Air?” by Bill Cosby by listening to it over and over again.
At least 25 years ago, I was sitting in a bar chatting with a middle aged woman from California. She was an anthropologist and had apparently suffered some academic political difficulties out there. She told me that there was a real controversy over human findings that some (apparently including her) believed to be over 200,000 years old. I always thought that Soddom and Gommorah might have been a meteor burst. Does anyone know exactly where they were located. Could they be in a valley that orients toward the meteor crater found in the Iraq marshes? I also read in National Geographic about a large iron meteor found in the “Empty Quarter” of Saudi Arabia. There were local stories that the meteor had destroyed a village of sinners. Is that another possible orientation?