[Destro]

I think Biblical scholars trace it to the Mountains of Ararat. Since the Noah flood epic is based on older Mesopotamian mythologies probably it is linked to the melting of the ice caps at the end of the ice age and to heavy rain flow and or the over flowing of the Black Sea which fed the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. These rivers begin in Anatolia and flow down from the Caucuses mountains, either that or people that survived the flood fled to higher land-the Ararat mountain ranges perhaps? and came down once the flood was done-probably they took with them their livestock herd.

It is probably no accident that the Sumerians started to build zigguruts to emulate mountains-the thing that may have saved their ancestors from the flood and thus a holy place? It was remembered of course cause the rivers contonued to overflow so it was a constant reminder ofthe big one?

[blam]

"the over flowing of the Black Sea which fed the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. These rivers begin in Anatolia and flow down from the Caucuses mountains."

LOL, I suggest you look at a map of the Black Sea. The Tigris and Euphrates flows out of Iraq into the Persian Gulf. The Persian Gulf was completely dry during the Ice Age.