In an antediluvian tone

[vovat]

This library closes an hour earlier than usual tonight (10 instead of 11), and then I don't work again until September, except on online reference. That's unfortunate, since I could use some more money. I guess that's the drawback of working at academic libraries, though. They're usually closed when the school is.

Since I'm going to have a considerable amount of time off, I should probably do something fun. bethje and I are planning on going to Clementon Park, and probably Great Adventure again as well, since we have season passes and all. Any other ideas as to what we can do? (I'm sure no one will suggest anything, but I figured I might as well ask anyway.)

I read some more of my World Mythology book, and apparently there's also a flood legend in China. I wonder whether the scholars who associate Noah's flood with a flood of the Black Sea have taken this into account. Really, it's not too unlikely that multiple cultures would have come up with a flood myth on their own. Floods are pretty devastating, after all. The myths aren't necessarily all referring to any one actual event.

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[colleenanne.livejournal.com]

I have a recommendation: The Mütter Museum!

[onib.livejournal.com]

Since you mentioned a couple of amusement parks in the area, it reminded me that I've been meaning to go back to Hershey Park and Dorney Park/Wild Water Kingdom some time this year. Of course, those are much further from you than from me. Also, I've been wanting to hike through Valley Forge Park while the weather's been so wonderful. I've driven through the park tons of times, stopping at certain places, but never venturing onto all of the trails.

I thought I remembered several cultures outside of the Middle East who had a flood myth. Of course, with early trade, the story of the Black Sea flood could have spread outward from the Middle East and been incorporated into other myth systems. However, I would think China would have plenty of sources for flood stories with the low-land, river-based cities as well as periodic tsunamis.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the Chinese flood myth was presented in a quite different way from the Hebrew and Babylonian legends, and the book I read linked it with another destruction by fire. It's definitely possible it's a completely unrelated story that just happens to be based on the same kind of natural disaster.