American and Asian legends mention, for the flood's Wave, the amazing height of 2.5 miles. To survive, one must really be on the highest mountains ...

When the Earth of the Golden AgeSee L'âge d'or was grazed by a celestial body, it lost its balance, and snapped around. That provoked earthquakesSee L'étincelle and volcanic eruptions of unusual violence. And then we saw the wildest tide: the enormous mass of the world's oceans, attracted by the gravity of the intruder, burst in the form of a mega-tsunami: a wave four thousand yards high, suspended between heaven and earth. Thick clouds darkened the sky for months.

The spindrifts were mingling with smokes from the craters. The sea water, sprayed by a thousand volcanoes, fell in furious torrents. That is the thesis of Velikovsky. Yet, despite the support of Einstein,Albert Einstein prefaced the first edition of Worlds in Collision. The great physicist was full of praise for the work of the mythologist. all of that is quite Hollywoodian. At that time, say the geologists, began a fabulous thaw. Huge icebergs came off the vast ice sheet that covered the whole north of our hemisphere. A titanic collapse urged the melting and the dismantling of huge glaciersSee Les glaciers du Würm on three continents.

More Than A Flood

In the memory of peoples, the saga of floods was about to start. « Many glacial lakes, sometimes huge, were forming in America and Eurasia. The Baltic Sea basin contained one of the biggest: the great lake of meltwater of the Baltic Sea. It was about 30 yards above the sea level, before flowing into the North Sea, in early Pre-Boreal Era, around 10,200 BC, causing what an archaeologist has described as 'a major ecological disaster'. » (source)Huggett 1989, quoted by J-M Greer, Atlantis, p.158

Indeed, the geography of this whole region would experience a terrible upheaval.

Birth Of A See

At the time, England was connected to the continent by a narrow strip of chalk cliffs, white, which traces can be found in Dover as in Etretat. The North Sea did not communicate with the Atlantic Ocean, as the Channel did not exist. Instead, there were meadows and forests where hunter-gatherers lived among all kinds of animals. But the great Baltic lake broke the ice dam that held it thirty yards above the level of the North Sea.

Then a huge wave, charged with mountains of ice, fell on this line of cliffs. Under pressure, the rock cracked. Chalk began to melt, the icebergs were swallowed up in the breach. Splitting the natural dam, cataracts formed a roaring torrent that would become the British Channel. A cannon shook the Earth. The huge dam had broken. The waves rushed into the breach, the tumultuous ice cubes broke the cliff, while the waves were carrying away pieces of white chalk.

Hunter-gatherers saw a wall of ice arrive, icebergs carried by the Mother of Waves which have blown them like straw. Devourer, the new sea erased the valleys, raked farms and villages, engulfed menSee Le Noé des glaces like demented ants at the bottom of their burrows.See Des villes sous la terre Huts and crops, barns and kilns, any human trace disappeared. Except a large white pyramid that was swallowed without damage.

Thus opened the Channel.

Here and there, on the whole Earth, disasters of this magnitude have marked the memory of peoples. The Mother of Waves still circled the world for a long time, raising waters higher than clouds, destroying islands, toppling mountains, drying up the seas, forming huge rivers and tumultuous lakes. And when the maelstrom calmed down, when the wave subsided, when the rivers had drained the lakes, the rain continued to fall for still a long time.

The last waves died, the last waters receded, the last drops stopped falling from the gray sky. But the sun remained hidden. Then many eartquakesSee Le grand cataclysme shook the earth's crust, new faults formed many volcanoes, that spewed torrents of lava and covered the sky with thick clouds. Was a nuclear winter preparing? Drying up puddles and mud, violent winds began to blow. Again and again.

All around the world, so many storms have unleashed waves, lightning and hurricanes. Billions of tons of dust thrown by caters or torn by tidal waves, darkened the sky for months, for years, for generations. Finally, when the long nuclear winter ended, when the sun reappeared, the breaking up flared up. It was the end of the Ice Age. For the few survivors of these repeating apocalypses, a new world was emerging.See Le mythe d'Eden