Is God really a volcano

[KichigaiNeko]

[Minimalist]

Quite traumatic for the Mediterranean,

Yeah....but. And its a big but.

It's late but tomorrow I'll go looking for some maps and charts on the issue. In essence, it would have been a tough day to be on the north coast of Crete or any number of Aegean islands but the tsunamis were blocked by those islands from much of the mainland of N. Africa Europe and Asia. Geologists have also determined that the ash cloud was carried by the prevailing winds in a generally north easterly direction which meant that breathing in what is now Turkey would have been problematic but Egypt and the Levant were barely touched.

I know it is a cottage industry to try to tie Santorini into everything...I've been there and it is fucking mind-blowing....




that was our ship anchored off Santorini. It was just under 500 feet long.

This shot, gives a better impression of the slope.




Poor bastards never knew what hit them.

[KichigaiNeko]

I am aware of Santorini Min but ...YOU WENT there?!! Lucky bugger!

Was not aware that Santorini Eruption was a "cottage industry". It was the first major one that I thought of in the Mediterranean that might be close enough to the Levant anywhere near the time period... hypothesis is that if that was active then there may have been other volcanoes active in the area? Yeah I'm guessing but you may have better access to history of such than me.

[Minimalist]

[KichigaiNeko]

[Minimalist]

The eruption devastated the island of Thera.

Indeed it did.

Thera gave its life for tourism.

[KichigaiNeko]

What are the red spots on the map Min??

[Minimalist]

It did not say.

[Anomalocaris]

Those are probably the locations where thickness of ash deposits were measured. The cottage industry of santarini refers to the collection of people who makes a living by publishing theories linking just about every event in human history, whether real or mythical, to that one eruption.

[KichigaiNeko]

Ok. Spent most of today trying to find maps of the volcanic history of the area. That linky I posted for Min had some references but nothing I could pin down...then It mainly focused on planetary meteor bombardment.

Classic for Ezekial...an actual meteor strike/ impact has been found to coincide with that time period. All it really does is to support the hypothesis that mankind has use the god of the gaps so he doesn't seem stoopid and ends up making himself look stoopid in the long run.