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Ojibwe: Great Serpent and the Great Flood [7] Ojibwe: Manabozho and the Muskrat [7] Ojibwe: Waynaboozhoo and the Great Flood [7] Orowignarak (Alaska): "A great inundation, together with an earthquake, swept the land so rapidly that only a few people escaped in their skin canoes to the tops of the highest mountains." [12] Ottawa: The Great Flood [7]
One example of a flood myth is in the Epic of Gilgamesh (c. 2100–1800 BCE). This account is similar to the Akkadian Atra-Hasis, [a] which dates to the 18th century BCE. [3] [b] In the Gilgamesh flood myth, the highest god, Enlil, decides to destroy the world with a flood because humans have become too noisy.
The Flood of Noah and Companions (c. 1911) by Léon Comerre. The Genesis flood narrative (chapters 6–9 of the Book of Genesis) is a Hebrew flood myth. [1] It tells of God's decision to return the universe to its pre-creation state of watery chaos and remake it through the microcosm of Noah's ark.
Plato also alludes to a well-known event of great destruction, in Statesman (270), where "only a small part of the human race survives", [4] presumably also referring to the flood of Deucalion. [2] In addition, the texts report that "many great deluges have taken place during the nine thousand years" since Athens and Atlantis were preeminent. [5]
Netherlands Great North Sea Flood 1953 In neighboring Belgium, 37 breaches in dikes flooded several towns and villages, including Antwerp, claiming 22 lives. This was also the worst flood of the ...
The Gilgamesh flood tablet 11 (XI) contains additional story material besides the flood. The flood story was included because in it, the flood hero Utnapishtim is granted immortality by the gods and that fits the immortality theme of the epic. The main point seems to be that Utnapishtim was granted eternal life in unique, never-to-be-repeated ...
Over the course of a three-month period in the summer of 1993, a slow-moving and historic flooding disaster unfolded across the midwestern United States, leaving economic ramifications that would ...
Cultures around the world tell stories about a great flood. [14] In many cases, the flood leaves only one survivor or group of survivors. For example, both the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh and the Hebrew Bible tell of a global flood that wiped out humanity and of a man who saved the Earth's species by taking them aboard a boat. [15]