Watched a show recently on the annual flooding of the Nile… people still make sacrifices to the gods so he/they will limit the amount of flooding… amazingly, this works most years… then, for some reason (they must have made some mistake in their rituals), it rains more than other years and the floods destroy their homes and cattle and kill a bunch of them… they sacrifice more, and lo and behold, the rain eventually stops… the miracles never cease…

Wonderful extrapolation on the Gilgamesh theme.
Recommended reading is Ingersoll’s “Some mistakes of Moses.” Wonderful.
Ingersoll dissects this very well. Says that here we have an ark too small, how did all the animals converge on the ark (I can hear it now: “Is it time, honey?” Noah: “No, not yet. Still waiting for the tortoises!”)
Lest we forget: Manu (Hindi), the Chinese (Shan Hai Jing), Deucalion (Greek), Aztec, Incan, Hopi, oh, the list does go on.
Some deep-seated racial memory, perhaps? If so, maybe (just guessing here) a memory from when we as a species 1st crawled onto the land?
Nicely done, BTW.

Just for the fun of it, I created a thread a while back entitled, “How much water was required for Noah’s Flood?”

The sad thing is that theist (especially Christians and Jews) use the very fact that the ‘flood’ story appears so often throughout history that it must be true.

To me the real dicks have always been those who believe that something that acts like the gods do in the various myths, is worthy of anything other than human emnity and disgust. Assume the stories are true and you have to ask: why revere or worship this muderous scum? Use them as an example of how NOT to behave,fear them sure, but respect or worship them?