Is God really a volcano

[KichigaiNeko]

The thing with a dormant or extinct volcano is that it just looks like another mountain. The Romans in Pompeii were surprised as all fuck when Vesuvius showed its stuff. It is not as if they didn't know that there were volcanoes; Etna on Sicily and Stromboli off the coast were active but Vesuvius was a major revelation.

Certainly true that the Jordan Valley is a tectonic hot spot but it seems to be earthquakes ( such as the one which leveled Jericho ) more than volcanic action which does most of the damage. I can't even find an estimate of the last time those volcanoes erupted.

The one that comes to mind Min is the Santorini eruption. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoan_eruption

Quite traumatic for the Mediterranean, Then of course there is always Pompeii and Etna.

What I am looking for is the possible event that -via chinese whispers- got turned into a god?

[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]

Yeah in 2007 we took a trip to the region which included a cruise to Turkey and various islands.

Anyway, here is the chart of the ash fall as calculated by geologists.




As you can see the depth of the ash deposit in Egypt is 0.1 whereas Turkey was blanketed.

As far as the tsunamis go,

This is the best map I can find right now.



Find Santorini and you'll see that much of the wave generated to the south would have run into Crete....where the coast was undoubtedly smashed but the Palace of Knossos is located on the central plateau and so out of harm's way. To the East the wave would have hammered Karpathos and Rhodes and to the West the Greek mainland of the Peloponnese would have been battered but the Greeks were little more than barbarians at the time without the coastal cities of later ages. To the north the myriad islands of the Dodecanese and Cyclades would have disrupted the wave.

Here's a photo of Karpathos.

http://www.citypictures.org/r-europe-148...e-2798.htm

( too big to post as an image)

A tsunami does not wash over an island like that and just keep going as if it wasn't there. Although had the town been there and facing west at the time it would have been obliterated.

[KichigaiNeko]

Came across this:
http://www.2012sos.net/the-holocene-epoch/

Interesting, still wading through it

[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.