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The world over, peoples and societies have developed common story themes to explain creation, behavior and cultural distinction. And there are also the stories associated with cataclysmic events. The most obvious example of this is the unbelievable number of flood and regeneration stories which appear all around the globe. Some two hundred date back to the Hebrew patriarch Noah’s deluge story of some 11,600 years ago. These similarly timed stories come from Kenya and throughout Africa, India, the American Indians of North, Central and South Americas, China, the Russias and of course Plato’s Atlantis.

Other common stories include the appearance of messengers sent to redeem a people, celestial events, and chronicles of visitors from other worlds. Some of these visitors from other worlds have come to be identified as historical personages from other continents; others are left unexplained, their origins often purportedly rooted in the skies.