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the portal and began to flow continuously across and down the slope toward the lake. Write geo-
physicists William Ryan and Walter Pitman --

Reaching the ancient shelf below, the water meandered across its flat surface, trickling into old channels
long dry, formed small lagoons, and gradually cut its own course, at last flowing over the edge and down
the gentle slope to the lake below...Within days [it]...would have grown to a roar as the stream became a
wildly turbulent river, cutting into its bank, pulling trees and large chunks of earth into the maelstrom.

The soil debris that had once dammed the valley were quickly swept away, and the water, now several tens
of feet deep, was a thundering flume twisting and churning with rubble as it clawed at the soft rock walls
that now and then collapsed. The debris-laden water ground into the bottom like a rasp, cutting deeply into
the bedrock itself. The deeper it cut, the faster it flowed, and the faster it flowed, the faster it cut until it
had gouged a flume at least 280 feet and up to 475 feet deep. Ten cubic miles of water poured through
each day, two hundred times what flows over Niagara Falls, enough to cover Manhattan Island each day to
a depth of over half a mile.

Most if not all the fish life in the lake died in the strange salty water...The level of the lake began to rise
six inches a day, immediately inundating the deltas and invading the flat river valleys -- moving upstream at
as much as a mile each day, without pause hour after hour, day after day, drowning the less agile, forcing
all else upriver or up onto the desertlike plateau through which the valley had been cut (Noah's Flood, pp.
234-235).

The Flood continued long after the human population had either drowned or fled to higher
ground. With ferocious violence the waters poured through the Bosporus day after day, filling the
river valleys and dry channels of the old shelf to the north. "For twelve months the tumultuous rush
of water continued undiminished until the level of the lake had risen 180 feet, to the lower surface
of the flume. As it continued to rise, the rate of flow slowly began to diminish. Still, during the next
twelve months it would rise another hundred feet. It crested the old shelf edge and began to race
toward the present shoreline, pushing all life before it...Everywhere the encroachment of the flood-
waters was so rapid that whole regions that had been dry were covered by ten or more feet of wa-
ter within days (ibid., p. 236)."

Continues Ryan and Pitman:

All around the lake the tentacles of salty water reached up the rivers and creeks, pushing farther and far-
ther inland each day. Along the south edge of the lake the waters quickly swamped the deltas and followed
the valleys into the fringing mountains of Anatolia, chasing life up into the hills.

After two years, when the lake level had risen 330 feet, the waters entered the Kerch strait and shortly
thereafter reached the Azov plain, which had been abandoned long before by humans. It would be several
more years before the basin was completely filled, creating the Sea of Azov, so that its surface, like that
of the Black Sea, was at the same level as the Aegean and Mediterranean seas, beyond. Sometime after-
ward the flow through the Bosporus slowly changed to its present state with fresher, lighter Black Sea wa-
ter flowing out at the surface and the heavier Mediterranean water flowing in along the bottom" (ibid., pp.
236-237).

The rapid and permanent filling of the Black Sea in recent ages has been proven by geo-
physicists from the mountain of scientific evidence. Is there, then, any clues within the mythology
of man that points to this event? Yes there is -- from the island of Samothrace in the Aegean Sea
just west of the entrance to the Dardanelles. This story, which describes the actual events of the
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