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Joseph Campbell told me
sorry, I know you were asking a serious question...I've been up all night grading papers

maybe that sentence should be amended to read: all myths are based on some kind of truth

btw, I know this gets some people twisted, but "myth" doesn't mean non-reality. Troy is still a myth...even after people realized it was real.
But even allowing that there is an underlying "truth" to the flood stories, it doesn't follow that there *had* to be an actual flood(s).

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