THE FLOOD

Disorientation in space and time is a natural phenomenon, so is orientation. Disorientation happens when you assume that everything stays mainly the same. Egypt has always been a dessert f.i. or Antarctica has always been covered with ice. This is definitively not the case. Antarctica once was tropical and the Black Sea was a sweet water lake.

When you orient yourself in “time”, you always have to remember, that sea-levels have risen, in the last 20.000 years, by more than 120 meters! This means that our ancestors lived in a completely different world. I could have walked from here to England or to northern Africa.

The Black Sea is a good example of this process. It used to be a sweet water lake on which shores lived people. It would be a nice environment. A nice climate and lots of game and fish. Around 10.000 years ago, a vibrant culture could be found here. They build farms, bigger than our contemporary ones. They were excellent metallurgists and toolmakers and their dead were buried with beautiful golden statuettes and ornaments. But suddenly this changed and by 5000 BC. they vanished. How come?

In recent years oceanographers have searched the waters of the Black Sea. They discovered the remains of buildings and ships. Also older shorelines could be distinguished. Analyzing these data several possibilities surfaced. The shores of the Black Sea-area were flooded about 8 to 5 thousands ago. Salt water of the Mediterranean found a way in and the flooding became unstoppable. Could this be the basis of the stories of the “Great Flood” we find not only in the Bible. The 4000 year old Gilgamesh Epic” from Mesopotamia contains a Flood story. This tells of a Sumerian “Noah” and his rescue from the Flood. A Flood which was too the result of an act of God, Enki this time, who could no longer stand the noise and turmoil produced by mankind.

Flood stories seem universal and that's quite natural. All over the world stories are told over disasters, that are extremely destructive. Survival was a blessing from the Gods. Not only in the Black Sea flooded history is revealed. Near Okinawa (Japan) an underwater structure is found, which seem to be the remnants of a city. A city more than 10.000 years old. The same is true for the famous “City of Lord Krishna”, near the western Indian coast. These finds completely change our view on history and human development. Maybe Paradise did exist and did a worldwide flood, occur. And there is no reason to think that it was the first or the last time. Due to global warming, sea levels may rise even further.