Experts Look For 'Watery Kingdom'

BBC ^ | 5-25-2006

[blam]

GGG Ping.

[bpjam]

Damn global warming - oh, wait. This happened before Global Warming? What the ??? How are we supposed to believe that this place sunk into the ocean if we hadn't even invented Global Warming yet? Don't these people know how hard this is going to be to explain now? Just damn.

[wizr]

Didden know they had dykes way back then.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

"One stormy night, legend has it that the appointed watchman Seithennin, a heavy drinker, was at a party and left the water gates open, the land flooded and disappeared under crashing waves."

Did the people use school buses to get away?

[DJ MacWoW]

ping

[P-40]

Didden know they had dykes way back then.

I think the literature we have found thus far just refers to them as women that prefer short hair and hiking boots.

[ExGeeEye]

Beat me to it.

[SunkenCiv]

The Sunken Lands were said to lay between Britain and Ireland, and figure in an episode of the Mabinogeon. Interestingly, that cycle starts before there were tides. :') Another lost land off Britain is Lyonnesse. Still another is off the Solent. Axeheads have been dredged up off the floor of the North Sea. There's a lot of stuff down there.

[SunkenCiv]

Extra-special thanks Blam.

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[RichInOC]

"The Mississippi River broke through a protective dike today...what is a protective dike? Is it a large woman that says 'Don't go near there!' 'But Betty-' 'Don't go near there! Don't go down by the river!'... No, we can't say 'dyke' on the air, we can't even say 'lesbian' anymore, it's 'women in comfortable shoes'...thank you."

[SunkenCiv]

Lyonnesse:

Google

[RandallFlagg]

Looks like a scene from, "Godzilla 2000"

[blam]

"Axeheads have been dredged up off the floor of the North Sea. There's a lot of stuff down there."

Stone Age Sites Found Under North Sea (8,000BC)

[wizr]

"Interestingly, that cycle starts before there were tides. :')"

HUH? 'Splain yourself, Ricky!

[SunkenCiv]

(': Merely that there is a reference to the beginning of the tides, with a mythical explanation for them and for why they began.

[johnny7]

If I remember correctly... that same evidence occurs off the coast of New Hampshire.

[wizr]

Tanks. Tought it was a "pre-moon" society...an' I don't mean Before Drop Trou.

[SunkenCiv]

There is at least one other surviving reference to a time without a Moon, from another culture.

[wizr]

Love this stuff. Atlantis, Continent of Mu, Olmec, Toltec... all of it. Should have been a researcher.