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Selects: Why Do Great Flood Myths Seem To Be Universal? | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
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The ubiquity of flood myths is better explained by local flooding and oral traditions than by a single global deluge.
“And there have been like some attempts to explain that that I think are much more satisfying than the idea that we're just missing all of the evidence for a great worldwide deluge that happened back in antiquity.”
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