Hi Katherine
My bad. Simply jamming too much information into too few sentences. In fact I was thinking of "The Shipwrecked Sailor" and the talking snake who tells a tale about an object coming so close to the earth that it incinerated his family. I know I'm skipping passed many details, and I'm drawing on my memory from Budge's translation, which is of course inadequate for a thorough understanding of AE mythology. But,I've always felt that this was a fragment of a description of some celestial encounter. Maybe a comet that broke up before impacting with the earth. The Myth of Sekhmet iirc has that same almost cosmic element as Ra sends out his "eye" to destroy mankind.

As far as Atlantis goes. I remain absolutely neutral on it. Yes it was incorporated into Plato's writings and was little more than an aside in his work. What is it a couple of pages out of what over a thousand pages of philosophy? While everybody knows about Atlantis, how many people know about his "The Laws"? Darn few. However, to dismiss Atlantis because of a paucity of evidence is ridiculous in my opinion. For instance if we were to evaluate the impact of the Hittites on Levantine based on the number of times they're mentioned in the bible. We would say they had absolutely no impact at all since iirc the word "Hittite" is mentioned once and the plural "Hittites" is mentioned either once or twice and that's it. Based on that paucity of evidence we could dismiss the hittites as "mythological" or an insignificant tribe. Of course we know that the Hittites played more than a minor role in the middle east. But one thing that infuriates me with scholarship is if there's little or no mention of something then it's almost automatically categorized as a "myth" and forgotten about or dismissed.

As far as these videos go. I think they provide strong evidence that myths are based in reality. For instance the commentator on the rabbit video sounds like he has a strong southern accent. What are the main rabbit myths from the south? How about Brer Rabbit? How many brer rabbit tales are based on real life interaction with rabbits and other animals and people? I'll bet quite a few but they're all dismissed as "just so" stories.

Like I said the kid with the cobra reminds me of the story with Hercules strangling the snakes in his cradle. Looking at this video it makes me wonder if the Hercules myth is a fragment of somekind of child/snake interaction as is portrayed in the video.

Anyhow HTH.