Armenian Flood Legend?

[Twilight Bark]

The only major link I can see between Amazons and Armenians is that Amazons supposedly lived in the Black Sea area, homeland of the (later) Armenians. But are there any legends or myths of Armenian warrior women who used to cut off one breast?

Well, the other link is linguistic, as I mentioned, for what it's worth. As for the greek myth about cutting breasts, I would not assign much significance to it. In fact, I would dismiss any Greek explanation of any Anatolian names unless independent evidence points to its validity. Gruesome detail should not lend it any more credibility than it normally deserves, which is not much. So, what is left is a smaller "speculation space" (i.e sans Greek). That's the best that can be done at the moment, I think.

[Arpa]

AHA, I think I know who this Arpa is! How are you??

 

Anyway, after years of debating with you on this matter, I have found that we haven't changed our minds

 

Revisionism is what we have endured of since the day Gregory the Deluminator walked in and burned our history.

 

Gavoukjian is the final word for now, until the next scholar decides to defy the law of NATO/USSR and truly follow in his footsteps.

Eeek! My worst nightmares may have come to revisit. I thought I recognized your clown's face :)

Don't your Grigor Moutavorich?

If you are who I think you are, drop me an e-mail. My address is still the same.

[Arpa]

Interesting. Just as we are talking about "g;lobal warming", look what happened when the Arctic** Icecap melted some ten millennia before.

Even though the following article does not mention the A word, we know what region it is talking about. We also know that the Armenian Lands were the birthplace of "agriculture" and "farming", domesticating and cultivating the WHEAT.

** Did you know that the word "arctic" is from the Greek "arco" meaning bear/arj?

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"Noah's Ark flood spurred European farming

Sun Nov 18, 2007 12:09am GMT

By Michael Kahn

LONDON (Reuters) - An ancient flood some say could be the origin of

the story of Noah's Ark may have helped the spread of agriculture in

Europe 8,300 years ago by scattering the continent's earliest

farmers, researchers said on Sunday.

Using radiocarbon dating and archaeological evidence, a British team

showed the collapse of the North American ice sheet, which raised

global sea levels by as much as 1.4 metres, displaced tens of

thousands of people in southeastern Europe who carried farming skills

to their new homes.

The researchers said in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews their

study provides direct evidence linking the flood that breached a ridge

keeping the Mediterranean apart from the Black Sea to the rise of

farming in Europe.

"The flooding of the Black Sea was not well dated but we got it down

to about 50 years," said Chris Turney, a geologist at the University

of Exeter, who led the study. "As soon as the flooding is done,

farming goes crazy across Europe."

The researchers created reconstructions of the Mediterranean and Black

Sea shoreline before and after the rise in sea levels. They estimated

the flood covered some 73,000 square kilometres over a 34-year period,

causing mass displacement of people.

Previous archaeological evidence has shown communities in the region

were already farming when the flood hit. The Exeter team suggests the

mass migration caused a sudden expansion of farming and pottery

production across the continent.

"We looked at all the earliest data on farming in Europe and we found

a little bit of farming in Greece and the Balkans just before the

flood," Turney said in a telephone interview. "When the flood

happened, farming seemed to stop but it was re-established a

generation later across Europe."

The researchers believe these people took their skills to new areas

previously populated by hunters and gatherers where there had been no

evidence of farming, Turney said.

The study also underscores the potential impact rising sea levels may

have in the future, the researchers said. An expected one metre rise

by the end of the century due to climate change would displace some

145 million people, Turney added.

It also paints a picture of the kind of mass disruption that has

prompted some scientists to link the ancient flood to the origins of

the biblical story of Noah's Ark, Turney said.

"When the Black Sea flooded at end of last ice age some people have

suggested it was the origins of the Noah's Ark myth," he said. "If you

lived in that basin it would have seemed like the whole world had

flooded."

 

(Editing by Maggie Fox and Catherine Evans)"