There has been mention from time to time of an enormous flood in the northwest that wreaked havoc all the way to the Pacific Ocean. That's usually met with disbelief but perhaps with the offering as a consolation prize that every culture has a Flood Story.
Maybe so but this one is real. So is the flooding of the Mediterranean, for that matter. Glacial Lake Missoula was the source of the floods and I wanted to get more detail on the story. What I found was there wasn't just one devastating flood but many of them and they were all due to the advance and retreat of glacial ice. The most recent was roughly fifteen thousand years ago and the intrigue for me is the Indians must have been aware of it as they were definitely here at that time. (Ice Age Floods Institute: About the Ice Age Floods)
The hypothesis about this extreme level of flooding was first proposed in 1923 and was met with derision from the scientific community but research continued and there's enormous evidence it's true. For all the detail you'll need to read the article but what I wonder the most is what stories are there in Indian culture about it. They were coming to America thirty-five thousand years so they were definitely there to see it when the floods came and no doubt a great many were killed by them. Surely they would have come to regard the Pacific Northwest as the Land of Dangerous Water and kept that story alive so future tribes would know not to go there because of the risk.
This is not conspiracy as the article shows plenty of geologic evidence to confirm the hypothesis. Imagine, if you will, a fifty-foot wall of water bearing down on Seattle at some incredible rate of speed. Glacial Lake Missoula doesn't exist anymore so that won't happen ... but at one time it did and it is said to have held more water than Lake Erie and Lake Ontario combined or an estimated five hundred cubic miles of water which they speculate may have emptied in as little as two to three days. By anyone's measure, that's a Great Flood.
WIKI refers to native American flood myths but we can see from the geology they were not myths so perhaps that which is dismissed as myth has not been sufficiently analyzed. (WIKI: Hopi Myths, Saanich people, K'Omoks)
Maybe so but this one is real. So is the flooding of the Mediterranean, for that matter. Glacial Lake Missoula was the source of the floods and I wanted to get more detail on the story. What I found was there wasn't just one devastating flood but many of them and they were all due to the advance and retreat of glacial ice. The most recent was roughly fifteen thousand years ago and the intrigue for me is the Indians must have been aware of it as they were definitely here at that time. (Ice Age Floods Institute: About the Ice Age Floods)
The hypothesis about this extreme level of flooding was first proposed in 1923 and was met with derision from the scientific community but research continued and there's enormous evidence it's true. For all the detail you'll need to read the article but what I wonder the most is what stories are there in Indian culture about it. They were coming to America thirty-five thousand years so they were definitely there to see it when the floods came and no doubt a great many were killed by them. Surely they would have come to regard the Pacific Northwest as the Land of Dangerous Water and kept that story alive so future tribes would know not to go there because of the risk.
This is not conspiracy as the article shows plenty of geologic evidence to confirm the hypothesis. Imagine, if you will, a fifty-foot wall of water bearing down on Seattle at some incredible rate of speed. Glacial Lake Missoula doesn't exist anymore so that won't happen ... but at one time it did and it is said to have held more water than Lake Erie and Lake Ontario combined or an estimated five hundred cubic miles of water which they speculate may have emptied in as little as two to three days. By anyone's measure, that's a Great Flood.
WIKI refers to native American flood myths but we can see from the geology they were not myths so perhaps that which is dismissed as myth has not been sufficiently analyzed. (WIKI: Hopi Myths, Saanich people, K'Omoks)
The Saanich people (not much detail but additional links in the article) and the K'Omoks (same detail level as Saanich) lived around the Pacific Northwest. The Hopi explored a lot and it was part of their culture to do it so their knowledge of the flooding makes sense even though they are in Arizona. The Hopi article has the most detail of floods and there is an international summary of flood myths in the primary article. (WIKI: Flood Myths)
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