Oral Traditions Record Sea Rise
- One minute read - 90 wordsOnce, on Facebook I wrote:
[https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/sep/16/indigenous-australian-storytelling-records-sea-level-rises-over-millenia][1]
I’ve always wondered about what was going on in the mythological texts which define most of modern religions’ practice.
The oral tradition of Australia’s native population has fascinating properties, including error correction. Basically story “owners’” families check that they’ve memorized the tale with proper fidelity. This prevents the “telephone” phenomenon.
Fascinatingly, the natives recall a rapid sea rise overtaking ancestral lands ~ 7,000 years ago. I’ll wager that what we call the Flood myth in the Abrahamaic religions was actually sea-rise occasioned by the melting of the glaciers.