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if you want to read an interesting and actually pretty well researched hypothesis about the War in Heaven and the Great Flood and see lots of cross-references to other ancient stories from north and south american indians, from africans, and geological evidence, genetic evidence (really heavily leans on genetic information in their hypothesis) you should read The Apocalypse of Yajnavalkya

i think some of it is almost right, i just don't think that meteor storms explains the great flood as well as a pole shift

it does actually talk about an old story about the sun turning suddenly extremely bright and it is dangerous to go outside and people start living in caves and only going out at night time, and there definitely was meteors involved i just think that geomagnetic excursion and a weakened magnetic field of the earth in general explains it all a lot better

but what you will get from the book is loads of threads to pull apart and research for yourself, it's richly annotated with references