Throughout the world, people have developed their own distinct stories to explain the workings of the world. Oftentimes these stories, called myths, involve one or more deities and attempt to explain the creation of the universe, the Earth, and humanity. Among these myths which all hail from vastly different cultures, there tend to motifs which are common to many of them. One of these common occurrences is that of a great flood which wiped out much or all of humanity. Obviously stories would be shared between cultures which live near each other, and mythologies would develop likewise. Interestingly, though, the motif of a great flood occurs in the myths of cultures across the world from each other, and date to a time before crossing the world was plausible. A possible explanation for this phenomenon, and one most scientists would be keen to latch on to, it that this is simply a coincidence. The Greeks lived on a peninsula in the Mediterranean Sea and the Mayans lived on a peninsula in the Caribbean Sea / Gulf of Mexico, so both cultures were surrounded by vast bodies of water. It would make sense, then, for them …show more content…
In my mind, there is one true God, and he has tried to reveal himself to all people. Perhaps this has resulted in the people of all different cultures inventing their own stories to explain the same thing. Maybe no religion is truly right or wrong, but they are all different versions of the same story. This would explain why so many cultures believed there was a great flood; it actually happened. Since the flood was meant to flood the whole Earth, people in certain regions survived and went on orating the story of what had happened. Eventually, this would be recorded into the mythologies created in each culture which explain why things happen. It could even be that the story of the flood outdated some religions, and the stories were built around the original. Who is to really