# How quickly did H .sapiens forget H. neanderthalensis?

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**Created:** [April 14, 2016, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-quickly-did-h-sapiens-forget-h-neanderthalensis/752224 "2016-04-14T22:19:26Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 17, 2016, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-quickly-did-h-sapiens-forget-h-neanderthalensis/752224/41 "2016-04-17T00:28:35Z")

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Neanderthals are probably the most recent human species other than sapiens but denisovans are a possibility.

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**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2016, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-quickly-did-h-sapiens-forget-h-neanderthalensis/752224/42 "2016-04-18T13:19:55Z")

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> [@NDP](#):
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> Here’s another Wikipedia link about [the battle between the Klamath sky-god, Skell, and their god of the underworld, Llao.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llao) According to the myth, the whole thing started when a daughter of a Klamath chief spurned the romantic advances of Llao who, despite being a god, was rather on the homely side.
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> In the Pacific Northwest, [there are also Indian myths and legends about the Missoula Floods](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missoula_Floods)which occurred near the end of the last Ice Age about 13,000 to 15,000 years ago.

Stories of great floods aren’t exactly unknown - there is also speculation that the one found in the Bible is a record of an end of the ice age phenomenon. But tying them to a specific event is difficult. Note that multiple ‘historical’ explanations have been advanced for the same myths.

> **[Flood myth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_myth)**
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> A flood myth or a deluge myth is a myth in which a great flood, usually sent by a deity or deities, destroys civilization, often in an act of divine retribution. Parallels are often drawn between the flood waters of these myths and the primeval waters which appear in certain creation myths, as the flood waters are described as a measure for the cleansing of humanity, in preparation for rebirth. Most flood myths also contain a culture hero, who "represents the human craving for life".
> The flood-m...

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**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2016, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-quickly-did-h-sapiens-forget-h-neanderthalensis/752224/43 "2016-04-18T13:22:05Z")

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> [@aruvqan](#):
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> Hm, elves - a small people living in underground mounds …
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> _cough_[Scara Brae](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skara_Brae) _cough_

Heh, no need to travel to the Okneys to find mysterious human-built mounds. Those things were dead common, in Neolithic burials - the more probable inspiration for stories of this sort. 😉

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