kendall, you are definitely an apostate of the most unspeakable sort, and I shudder to think what ghastly fate awaits you in the hereafter. ;-)

LEJ - Excellent reference! That may indeed be the source of the Great Flood story that eventually got re-percolated through various ancient cultures, got picked up and adapted by the Isrealites into their own traditions, and finally written down as the story that appears in the Bible.