12000 years ago what did people think when it thundered?

"Sh*t! Is that rain coming? I'd better get the washing off the line!!!"

I am a senior citizen but I don't go back that far so I can only surmise what they might have said. My guess would be that they were not unfamiliar with thunder because it probably thundered as often 12,000 years ago as it does now. it would not be a brand new experience to them. I'd guess that they might say something like " Damn, Ogg, did you hear that thunder? We'd better move back from the opening of the cave so we don't get wet by the rain." Of course, that's just from my imagination, I wasn't actually there.

If I'm not mistaken, since there wasn't really Science back then, people connected natural phenomena to the workings of the gods that they worshipped.

For example, for the Nordic people, thunder has a god, and these people named that god Thor. Now, as far as my knowledge of Norse mythology goes, the sound of thunder was attributed to the sound of the hooves of Thor's goats --- "Tanngrisnir" and "Tanngnjostr" --- pulling the god's chariot across the sky. (Lightning was, allegedly, made by Thor's famous hammer Mjolnir).

In Greek and Roman mythology, thunder and lightning was attributed to the god Zeus (Roman: Jupiter).

I would imagine the first time they ever heard it,,It scared the

hell out of them... But overtime, Im sure they related to the

fact that it could bring rain, and water being a source of life,

they hopefully associated this, and welcomed it,

They generally thought that a god of someone kind was acting in some way. Interesting parallel to what people think today.

That exact question is what pushed me over the edge to full-blown atheism many years ago.

What people?

Probably thought it was an angry God.

Or that it was sound of lightening. Or whatever it really is. Or something.

i have no idea what they thought, i can only imagine they thought the world was going to end because the sky was falling down!

the earth wasn't 12000 years old ...

only 6,500 ... it's proven .... look up kent hovind ... anyways they probably freaked ... or thoguth someone was being judged ...

I imagine probably reacted with fear.