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German Sunken City Legends

German Sunken City Legends W a r r e n R. M a u r e r , L a w r e n c e , Kans. Among the most ubiquitous legends, both historically and geographically, are those about the inundation, submersion, or sudden destruction of eitles, races, countries or habitations, äs divine retribution for transgresslon. Paradigmatic for the precarious human predicament itself, they are found in the oldest literatures and appear to antedate such records by thousands of years; perhaps even äs racial memories of the rains and floods which must have accompanied the waning of the last ice age some 12,000 years ago. While the exact origin of individual stories may be in doubt, there is ample evidence to support the assumption that the kinds of cataclysms depicted have occurred many times in the past and may be expected to continue in the future. The discovery of mastodon bones and primitive tools far from land in the North Sea; neolithic finds off the west coast of France; visible ruins of cities underwater on the coast of Africa; the destruction of Pompeii (Italy) in 79 A. D.; the sudden submersion of Heliki (Greece) in 373 B. C. and of Port http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Fabula de Gruyter

German Sunken City Legends

Fabula , Volume 17 (1) – Jan 1, 1976

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de Gruyter
Copyright
Copyright © 2009 Walter de Gruyter
ISSN
0014-6242
eISSN
1316-0464
DOI
10.1515/fabl.1976.17.1.189
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Abstract

W a r r e n R. M a u r e r , L a w r e n c e , Kans. Among the most ubiquitous legends, both historically and geographically, are those about the inundation, submersion, or sudden destruction of eitles, races, countries or habitations, äs divine retribution for transgresslon. Paradigmatic for the precarious human predicament itself, they are found in the oldest literatures and appear to antedate such records by thousands of years; perhaps even äs racial memories of the rains and floods which must have accompanied the waning of the last ice age some 12,000 years ago. While the exact origin of individual stories may be in doubt, there is ample evidence to support the assumption that the kinds of cataclysms depicted have occurred many times in the past and may be expected to continue in the future. The discovery of mastodon bones and primitive tools far from land in the North Sea; neolithic finds off the west coast of France; visible ruins of cities underwater on the coast of Africa; the destruction of Pompeii (Italy) in 79 A. D.; the sudden submersion of Heliki (Greece) in 373 B. C. and of Port

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Fabulade Gruyter

Published: Jan 1, 1976

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