>>12798178The oldest flood myth does not mean it comes from them. The Vedic flood myth rivals the superannuated age of the Sumerian flood myth. Same can be said for the Aztecs and their similiar myths which may or may not have had some sort of Aryan or Pre-Aryan connections regarding how divine and similiar but also twisted the sun ages are. Whereas in the yugas and Hesiod's metallic ages the world gets progressively worse, with the exception of the cultural explosion in the Heroic Age which is solely a Greek addition and is absent in Ovid's telling, in Mexican mythology each age embodies the improvement and further development of a better race serving the gods.
It would be wiser to take what tradition tells us in this case since Solon was correct in stating that in circa 9600 BC the world was flooded as it overlaps perfectly with the Younger Dryas period and it should be noted that the Atlantic sea bordering the western African coast has the Azores off its shores. The Azores contain a people enigmatic to anthropology aswel as reports of pyramids on the islands and sunken ones around them.
Food for thought
Your mentioning of Dilmun, the Sumerian tale of a timeless paradise located in modern day UAE, is noteworthy. According to Sumerian accounts it is where their people originate from, is without suffering, was inhabited by them before a flood during a golden age before Enki punished them and apparently Sargon send out expeditions to Dilmun and they had trade with the people living there.
