disappearing lands have and will
continue to fascinate me
reverence are classic stories of
atlantis and mu or lesser known tales
like that of harapan
or indus along with katahyuk the world's
oldest city
these landmasses suddenly vanishing into
tales of legend
they leave us with questions such as
what were these cultures and peoples
like
how did the people that called these
disappear places home
live if these places had advanced
technology
and in some cases if they even existed
at all
very occasionally we get to witness one
of these disappearances
this has happened recently with the
sinking of a hawaiian
island could this event help us answer
some of the questions we have
about the mysteriously lost
civilizations
of legend
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once in a while we get to witness events
of impressive destruction
mother nature flexing her muscle and
showing mankind who is really boss
one such incident has just been seen in
the islands of the french frigate shoals
one island being white from the map
these shoals lay off the hawaiian coast
and were just hit by a huge hurricane
hurricane
walaka an intense storm that hit hawaii
earlier this month
wiped the east island from the map
this remote island of graveland sand
that sat atop a coral reef
was swallowed by the oceans as hurricane
warlacka surged past hawaii
earlier this month scientists have
confirmed the disappearance
of the 11 acre island after comparing
satellite images of the enormous
protected marine area in the
northwestern hawaiian islands
scientists researching the east island
were using drones to take samples of
sand
and corals to ascertain the age of the
island and
gauge future prospects in the face of
climate change
east island was about half a mile long
and 400 feet wide
the second largest island in the area
which until 1952
hosted a u.s coast guard radar station
this island was very important to local
ecology
being home to rare species such as the
hawaiian monk seal
green sea turtles and sea birds such as
the albatross
the loss of the land has been described
as a huge blow
with scientists saying they did not
realize an island could disappear so
quickly
these same scientists are concerned that
this same could happen to other islands
and each time it does the risks increase
to the mainland
the islands act like bumpers or buffers
often diverting or absorbing bad weather
and tidal erosion as they disappear the
effects are felt harder on the larger
land masses
these landmasses disappearing could be
considered an early warning system
for disasters to come the wiping from
the map of these locations
should have people living in low-lying
lands and coastal cities worried
the tides are rising and we have to ask
ourselves if there will come
a tipping point will that tipping point
come in the form of a sudden catastrophe
or a slow rise of sea levels it would
seem the water
is coming and not for the first time
legends of great floods are found in
almost every culture on the earth there
is a lot of scientific evidence
which suggests that the world once
experienced a flood so large
that it covered the entire planet in the
western world
we have noah's ark but legends of great
floods
are tied to many religions it turns out
that nearly every culture around the
world
has its own version of a great flood
story most
have an element of magic and mythology
linked to them
tales of god's wrath or other angry
deities wreaking havoc on the world to
show their displeasure with mankind
the first story is known as the epic of
gilgamesh
going back to ancient mesopotamia and
the discovery of ancient cuneiform
tablets
they tell the story the mesopotamian
tale
predates the hebrew version of noah's
ark by a considerable amount of time
the story talks of the king of uruk who
was a despicable ruler
the guard sent a wild man named in kidu
to stop the oppression of the people the
two instead became friends
as the story unfolds a series of events
end
with the guards being angered and
sending a flood to punish them
from the middle east we travel to china
and their stories of the great flood
that happened in the region in 1920
bc china experienced a massive flood
in this story of a great flood it didn't
however
engulf the entire planet but for the
people living
in la jia in the north west of the
quinghai province
it would have most likely seemed that
way the tale begins with another natural
disaster
an earthquake this quake sent rocks from
the mountains
tumbling down and falling into the
yellow river
this creating a natural dam this natural
dam began
collecting rain water over the course of
the year
eventually bursting killing many with a
massive flood
emperor yu spent 22 years diverting the
water
once the people regained the land you
began to rebuild chinese civilization
from the ground up as the story was
passed on by word of mouth
over thousands of years it became
increasingly grandiose
to india now and the vedas a series of
texts i often refer to here on the
channel
and which seem to always be tied to
ancient legend everything from ancient
aliens
to lost advanced technologies so it's no
surprise to find they too
have a flood legend the hindu tale is
known
as the matsuya's warning in hinduism
the god vishnu takes the form of ten
different avatars
one of these is the fish matsia
according to the mythology king manu
pulled water into his hands
and found a tiny fish it begged for help
to survive
so he decided to put it into a pitcher
of water
by the next day the fish had doubled in
size so king manu kept putting it
in bigger tanks it became so massive
that he brought it to the ocean
he realized that this fish was the god
vishnu and it was grateful for his
kindness
he was rewarded with the warning there
would be a horrible drought
followed by intense rainfall and
flooding
vishnu instructed king manu to gather
all living plants and animals to survive
the flood
in a large boat he bought along seven
sages and their families
the sages were wise men who held all the
world's knowledge
they had to settle on land at the top of
a mountain where
they proceeded to rebuild civilization
so we reach a point where the stories
are becoming predictions
of disastrous floods to come and again
this is not found in just one story but
many
according to native american mythology
there have been many different stages of
humanity
these are split into sagas of the first
second
third and fourth worlds every native
american tribe
has a similar story of a great flood it
all starts with their creator god being
displeased
with the way the people have been
behaving the gods want humanity to start
over
so they send the flood to cover the
planet other cultures
have left us with similar tales the epic
of atraphisis maori legends of the
goddess
australia's aboriginal people tell
stories of
the tidulik the frog from the
philippines to europe
we hear tales of warnings to mankind
all in a form which is indicative of the
local culture
these cultures feared they were about to
be erased
from the face of the planet should we be
fearing the same
could we be the next civilization to
fall victim to such an event
let's take a look at one location that
is in the firing path
of one of these giant floods california
the state is
under threat from a megaflood
california's next megaflood
would be worse than the 1906 earthquake
worse than eight
hurricane katrinas worse than every
wildfire
in californian history all combined the
world's first trillion dollar natural
disaster
a wintertime megaflood in california
could turn out to be the worst natural
disaster
in u.s history the odds are good that
such a flood will happen within some
time in the next 40 years
a recent study has predicted the study
reported that by the end of the century
it's a near certainty extreme west coast
rainstorms
will happen at five times the historical
rate
this is if we continue on the path of
global warming
that has been mapped thus far the
study's lead author daniel swain
a climate scientist at the university of
california
compared california's weather to the
pattern of earthquakes
he stated a major earthquake on the
haywood fault
in san francisco bay area or on the san
andreas fault
east of los angeles is an inevitability
in the long run and
either event would likely be devastating
swain says
yet the big difference with the risk of
a major flood event
is that human activities are greatly
increasing the likelihood
of the physical event itself through the
emission of greenhouse gases
congress has held hearings and proposed
new funding
to prepare for disasters after they'd
read
the really big one catherine schultz's
pulitzer winning description
of a huge earthquake hitting the area
california's looming megaflot would
likely be
much worse in terms of sheer destruction
displacement
of human life reordering of society
a californian megaflood would be without
parallel
in modern u.s history on his blog
swain wrote climate scientists are
sometimes accused of being alarmist
but i would argue that alarm is a
reasonable human response
if we look at the history it would seem
he is correct
have we become so ignorant that we no
longer fear
or feel we are in danger of such fast
and catastrophic change
1861-1862 a storm caused massive
flooding
and cost many lives it brought the area
to its knees economically
today will be much worse the threatening
disaster has been named
ark storm a thousand year mega storm
that would test the modern
infrastructure to breaking point
for california it looks like the worst
of climate change
is just getting started do you
think large parts of the world could be
erased by another megaflood
do you believe in the great flood myths
and think that these stories are a
warning that it may happen
again is this a natural cycle
or something we have caused through
global warming
let me know your thoughts in the
comments below
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