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Watson, Lyall - The Flood
Identifier
011383
Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
Lyall Watson – The Water Planet
There are tales of inundation from India, China, South America and Polynesia. From Genesis to the Epic of Gilgamesh. Accounts of wickedness wiped out and the salvation of a favoured few in the arks of Noah, Tepzi or Utnapishtim. There is a haunting similarity in these stories, with their poetic messages of deep, stormy waters and rainbowed promises. All tell of incessant rain or sudden tidal wave, of the release of a symbolic bird which returns with fresh vegetation and of new beginnings on an isolated mountain