It's possible that Noah and the people just didn't want to write about it instantly. They told about it to people, to their children, and their children passed it on. And later, I guess, Moses or whoever, wrote about it...
The problem with that is exactly what I've been getting at. You cannot hand down a story over a timespan of 1,500 years and expect it to remain accurate to any degree. It will certainly still contain a lot of the details - but with a whole host of additions and changes. For accuracy about the event, the only one worth reading would be the one written during/closer to the actual event. As a result the Sumerian flood story is the only one worth reading and given consideration to as being accurate.
Moses would know that the flood occured, even though no one had ever told him.
Who is Moses?
The Legend of Sargon, "... My changeling mother conceived me, in secret she bore me. She set me in a basket of rushes, with bitumen she sealed my lid. She cast me into the river, which rose not (over) me. The river bore me up and carried me to Akki, the drawer of water. Akki, the drawer of water lifted me out as he dipped his e[w]er. Akki the drawer of water, [took me] as his son (and) reared me."
Exodus 2:3, "... The woman conceived and gave birth to a son. She saw that he was good and she hid him for three months. She could not hide him any longer, so she took for him a wicker basket and smeared it with clay and pitch, she placed the child into it and placed it among the reeds at the bank of the river." Then Pharaoh's daughter saw the basket among the reeds. Later on the Bible says (Exodus 2:10), the boy grew up and she brought him to the daughter of Pharaoh and he was a son to her. She called his name Moses, as she said, " For I drew him from the water."
The Legend of Sargon is dated to around 2,300 BC, Moses around 1,300 BC.
Was there even a person called Moses? It's highly questionable.
If we start right at the beginning of the bible we can see that Sumeria plays a massive part in it. The very location of the Garden of Eden is stated as being in Sumeria, the story of Adam and Eve and the fruit is from Sumerian origin, (Adamu) etc, Abraham is stated to have been from Sumeria, and then travelled north, bumped into god and founded a new people. Undoubtedly stories that he had heard during his younger years would have been told to others as he travelled, and indeed if he did the writing he would have used the Sumerian stories, (what he could remember of them). This includes the ram caught in the thicket, (during the sacrifice of his son). Statues depicting the ram caught in a thicket were found in a temple in Ur, (now in display in the Philadelphia Museum). Are any of these stories original? It's highly suspect. It is more likely to state that they have been written by someone who grew up hearing Sumerian stories and then rewrote them as best he could.
Now later, of course, it has become like "myth". Most things become myths sooner or later. If our civilization would be destroyed in a great natural disaster, survivors would tell about us, and later they might write about it. Everyone would believe it, but after a long time, like after 5000 years, many people would consider it to be a myth... that we had rockets which could fly to the moon and other kind of "technology".
Certainly, and what are the chances that their stories about these rockets would be anywhere near accurate? While I will agree that the basic details might very well be based upon some form of truth, it would become so distorted after such a length of time to render it of no worth to accuracy.
I do not doubt there was a flood, or perhaps that a man got stuck on a boat of some kind, and quite possibly had a few animals on board - but that doesn't in any way give rise to gods flooding the entire planet, sky domes with windows to let the rain fall through or getting 2 of every animal in existence onto a boat.
Another issue that needs to be taken into account is their level of world understanding. These survivors of the natural disaster.. what is their level of understanding? Do they think the world is flat? Can they diagnose diseases or tell that lightning is not the wrath of some floating guy in the sky? Without a certain level of understanding the stories would be even worse - becoming more akin to a future bible than anything worth the time.
Actually they Could see into the future. I mean, people like Noah. How else do you think he knew that the flood would come? The sumerians had "kings" who could experience past and future as present. They could even see to our time.
I refuse to believe that even you believe this.
Like I said, I think Christ has come many times. So there are many original stories.
Of course the vastly more rational explanation being that these stories were simply handed down and rewritten.
And you might be confusing the allegorical and the real stories.
Eh? Real? Lol.
But I wanted to say that Noah and Gilgamesh weren't the only survivors of the flood.
Of course not. I'm sure the Chinese folk that they knew nothing about survived, or the Europeans, etc etc. What did they know about the whole world? Nothing..
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A negative cannot be proven. So prancing around doing as if one had proven a negative is unacceptable.
1 is not 2. That's a negative and you can prove it.
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