Thought For Food

Okay hear me out……

Piri Reis puts out his map in 1513 that shows Antarctica with no ice cover. This map was copied from a(some) much older source(s). So at some point in the far far foggy distant past Antarctica was bare of ice. This was known and documented on multiple maps that were later used as source material by Piri Reis.

There have been discoveries of tropical plants in the fossil record in the Arctic. Imagine that! The Arctic, where now it can stay in darkness for half the year…..a tropical zone! Something major changed at some point long long ago. If the Artic was tropical wouldn’t the Antarctic also have been much much warmer if not also tropical?

So…stay with me now…There had to have been a warm period long enough to melt all the ice off of that continent. And if there was, it would explain…well everything really!

If the ice started melting on Antarctica, much like it is now, the sea levels would slowly start to rise.

Island nations might have felt the effects first (we’ll soon find out, yes?). Atlantis, Lemuria, etc. might have felt it. Their citizens would have begun moving to higher ground. Little by little, up and up. Until eventually…..

Along the mainland coastal areas rivers flood a bit more often (they suddenly discovered their 1000 year flood plains in eastern NC in recent years), streams don’t flow as rapidly, brooks no longer babble as pleasantly as before.

Freshwater harbors are becoming slightly brackish, there are “ghost forests” appearing where healthy stands of trees used to grow due to the inundation of salt water into the water table.

And it rains. When it rains it Pours. And it takes longer and longer for the mud to dry if it ever does. More and more often it doesn’t.

What if that warm spell…..was the Flood. What if little by little the water ate the land until there was only a tiny portion left. And forty days and forty nights of rain was enough to eat the rest of it completely up!

What if, the world over, the high ground finally gave way. Until all that was left was tiny pockets of humanity huddled together telling stories around their fires. Stories of the old days and the old ways and the old ones. Stories of the water. Stories of their fear. Because every ancient culture had a flood story.

The stories the survivors told each other would have been EPIC, right? And being the natural born story tellers that we are we would have embellished the Fool out of it. We would have incorporated something that literally Earth Shattering into our religious stories for Sure!

Hell we might have Started a religion because of it!

But…like I said before. I’m remarkably full of shit.

image credit: M. DiFulvio