Don Barone Wrote:
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> In this article JC ( I find is so amusing his
> initials are that of one of his greatest myths)
> would have us believe that the flood myth is an
> ancient antique Cristian Story passed via Egyptian
> myth where if he did his homework as he is so
> proud of saying he does he would know the story
> originated far before any Christians heard of it
> and way before any Egyptian heard of it as well
> for that matter. Most learned people know that the
> origin of this tale is far back in Sumerian
> history.
JC is indeed referring to the Christian legends of the pyramids.
The Gilgamesh tale is cobbled together from a number of sources (five major earlier poems). He seems to have been a real ruler who was later deified:
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-- Byrd
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