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Hancock connects flood myths from around the world—Noah, Gilgamesh, Yima, Ragnarok—to possible collective memories of real, catastrophic events like the Global Flood of 9600 BCE, associated with meltwater pulses that rapidly raised sea levels.
He suggests these stories may be more than myth—they could be cultural memories of real episodes of rising seas, which would have devastated early human settlements. This idea aligns with geological data showing sea levels rising as much as 130 meters since the last Ice Age, possibly inundating significant parts of early civilizations.