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Originally Posted by KnifeMissile
It depends on what you mean by "mirror" the great flood of Christianity. I don't know what all these other flood myths are so I can't say anything about them. The only similarity you've mentioned is that they share a flood. While this is an unmistakable similarity, it's also a superficial one...
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I'd encourage you to read
this then. It's only a rough outline, but it'll give you something to research if you so desire.
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However, there are many other factors to consider. Why aren't all the flood myths the same?
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The fact that individual flood myths differ from each other is, in itself, perfectly normal. Wasn't it you who referenced the
telephone game? As time passes each culture is invariably going to have a different interpretation of the flood.
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Why don't literally all cultures have flood myths?
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I don't know. All cultures don't need to reference a great flood for it to be true. A better question would be "Why do most cultures have one?"
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Do all cultures assert them as more than myths?
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I don't know of any religion which doesn't claim to be the absolute truth, so I guess the answer to your question would have to be 'yes'.
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How would such a flood happen?
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...Because God caused it to happen (As most religions say). I don't quite understand the purpose of your question...
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Where did all the water come from and where did it all go?
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I've always been taught that the ocean levels before the great flood were lower than what they are now (Which would explain where the water went).
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If a great flood wiped out all the Mayans, for example, why were there still Mayans?
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Because it didn't wipe them all out.
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In light of many other factors besides the existence of flood myths, the other explanations that would, otherwise, seem less likely, seem much more plausible. Context is everything...
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Well, then, would you kindly name them? All I've seen in this thread are people saying "There must be more explanations!" but, as yet, I've only seen one (Maybe two) other explanations put forth.