[vkou]

I find a much simpler explanation to the common meme of biblical floods in religions.

Which is that people tend to build their settlements on or around rivers.

The same geography that makes an area suitable for trade, transport, fishing and agriculture will have catastrophic floods every few years/decades. Look at where every city of note is, and note how many of them are either on the coasts, or on rivers.

Rivers flood.

[towaway15463]

I wouldn’t think a regularly occurring flood would be recorded as a once in history event that wipes out almost all of mankind. The Egyptians featured regular flooding of the Nile in their myths but didn’t picture them as apocalyptic.