(February 17, 2016 at 2:00 am)Parashu Wrote: This first page of human history, which would have lasted for tens of thousands of years - while our ancestors were already speaking, but not yet farming - was then "Flooded".
The Flood comes after the tale of Caïn and Abel and it could represent the multiplication of people and tales which resulted from the development of agriculture and animal breeding. The number of languages, stories,... about the past was multiplied very quickly and it flooded the real story of "prehistory". There was a world before we understood the principle of fecondation and this world is no more because it's impossible to forget (again) how children are born...
Or, and I'm just floating this as an idea, there was in fact a huge freaking flood, and they knew about it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea_...hypothesis
(there are others going farther back, and a little less theoretical)
