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Lake Toba is the site of a supervolcanic eruption estimated at VEI 8 that occurred 69,000 to 77,000 years ago, [6] [7] [8] representing a climate-changing event. Recent advances in dating methods suggest a more accurate eruption date of 74,000 years ago. [ 9 ]
The Toba eruption (also called the Toba supereruption and the Youngest Toba eruption) was a supervolcanic eruption that occurred about 74,000 years ago, during the Late Pleistocene, [2] at the site of present-day Lake Toba, in Sumatra, Indonesia.
The mythology of Indonesia is very diverse, the Indonesian people consisting of hundreds of ethnic groups, each with their own myths and legends that explain the origin of their people, the tales of their ancestors and the demons or deities in their belief systems. The tendency to syncretize by overlying older traditions with newer foreign ...
Lake Toba, the world's largest volcanic lake and the largest lake in Southeast Asia, is in Indonesia This is a list of the notable lakes of Indonesia. Indonesia has 521 natural lakes and over 100 reservoirs, covering approximately 21,000 km 2. The total volume of water held is approximately 500 km 3. The largest lake, by both area and volume, is Lake Toba in Sumatra. It holds 240 km 3 of ...
Today the majority of Parmalim are Toba Batak. The largest of the several existing Parmalim groups has its centre in Huta Tinggi in the vicinity of Laguboti on the south shore of Lake Toba. [1] [2] The Malim religion has some similarities with Islam, including a prohibition on the consumption of pork and of blood, and the practice of wearing ...
Lake Toba is the site of early catastrophic eruptions and a current lake and crater in Sumatra in Indonesia; Pages in category "Lake Toba" The following 9 pages are ...
The active volcanic arc creating supervolcano that today become Lake Toba in Sumatra. The massive eruption of the Toba supervolcano that occurred some time between 69,000 and 77,000 years ago (72,000 BC) instigated the Toba catastrophe theory , a global volcanic winter that caused a bottleneck in human evolution.
Water god in an ancient Roman mosaic. Zeugma Mosaic Museum, Gaziantep, Turkey. A water deity is a deity in mythology associated with water or various bodies of water.Water deities are common in mythology and were usually more important among civilizations in which the sea or ocean, or a great river was more important.