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To: SunkenCiv; Political Junkie Too; Fred Nerks; gleeaikin
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Zanclean Flood

48 posted on 04/02/2018 2:09:32 PM PDT by blam
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To: blam

One of hundreds of Flood stories, and as is to be expected, the muzzies are victims and have it backwards:

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html

Turkey

Iskender-Iulcarni (Alexander the Great), in the course of his conquests, demanded tribute from Katife, Queen of Smyrna. She refused insultingly and threatened to drown the king if he persisted. Enraged at her insolence, the conqueror determined to punish the queen by drowning her in a great flood. He employed Moslem and infidel workmen to make a strait of the Bosphorus, paying the infidel workmen one-fifth as much as the Moslems got. When the canal was nearly completed, he reversed the pay arrangements, giving the Moslems only one-fifth as much as the infidels. The Moslems quit in disgust and left the infidels to finish the canal. The Black Sea swept away the last dike and drowned the workmen. The flood spread over Queen Katife’s country (drowning her) and several cities in Africa. The whole world would have been engulfed, but Iskender-Iulcarni was prevailed upon to open the Strait of Gibraltar, letting the Mediterranean escape into the ocean. Evidence of the flood can still be seen in the form of drowned cities on the coast of Africa and ship moorings high above the coast of the Black Sea. [Gaster, pp. 91-92]


49 posted on 04/02/2018 3:13:47 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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