Every now and then the news pops up that someone has discovered Noah's Ark and sure enough, researchers from universities in Turkey and the United States believe they may have found the ruins of it on Mount Ararat.
They have dismissed Archaeologists in the area who have explained that it is merely a natural formation in the mountain but religious nuts cannot be knocked out of their delusions by evidence so they are shaking their rosary beads in excitement at the find although they have not said which version of the Ark this is.
In the Christian story, God instructs Noah to build an ark to spare his family and pairs of animals from an incoming flood but Christianity was the Johnny Come Lately of religions and there was plenty of flood myths before the Bible snagged it for their own.
The story of the Great Flood first came to the surface in ancient Mesopotamia which has Utnapishtim being warned of an imminent flood to be unleashed by wrathful gods and told to build a boat to carry his relatives and assorted animals and after days of storms, Utnapishtim, releases a bird in search of dry land and according to Hindu teachings, Manu was given the heads up of a flood that will wipe out humanity and builds a ship and tied it to a the horn of a great fish which the Christians left out when they nicked the story.
The Aztec flood story has Nata and Nenoa warned by their God Titlacauan that a flood is coming and fashion a boat from a cypress tree and the Greek God Zeus told Deucalion to construct an Ark for him and his wife as he was about to flood the planet as he was was displeased with the human population.
Buddhists have an elaborate flood story where a bunch of carpenters share an island with a bunch of spirits and because they would defecate and urinate everywhere which so miffed the spirits for making their island stinky, they flooded the island but being carpenters they built a ship and half of them managed to flee and even China has a flood story, their tale begins with an imprisoned Thunder God which is released by a brother and sister who are spared the resulting revenging great flood by their god who kindly led them to a boat before he sent the water in.
The Norse version is a expected much more gory with the flood coming from Odin killing the Giant Ymir and his blood flooding the earth with only a giant named Bergelmir and his wife spared after they made an ark and the flood in the Aboriginal version is caused by a frog who drank up all of the water in the land and then whilst during a laughing fit, spat it all out and caused the floods but the Native American Indians have the Great Spirit fed up with how men were behaving and wiped them all out with a flood except for a man named Waynaboozhoo who had made a raft of logs and sticks for himself and other animals on which they floated around on until the waters had not gone down.
So if researchers have found an Ark we really should be told which one because if you believe in the story, then there must be hundreds of them knocking around but hopefully it isn't the Buddhist one, that is going to be really stinky.
Saturday, 14 December 2024
They Found An Ark, But Which Religion's?
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4 comments:
excellent journalism. plus you just insulted 7/8's of the world's population so double well done.
the article comes across less as informative and more as arrogant, i'm smarter than you, and i'm bitter.
Wasn’t meant to be informative, it was a piss take.
yeah, we got the pissy part. i say we. i mean me. nobody reads the blog...
Piss take, not pissy.
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