-There is the remarkable epic of Gilgamesh story that tells of a hero who escaped
a worldide flood with many parallels to the Genesis story.
-The Koran, in Sura 7, tells of Allah sending "Noah unto his people... I fear for
you for the retribution of an awful day...We saved him and those with him in the
ship, and we drowned those who denied our token."
-The Popul Vuh, the holy book of the Quiche Maya, tells of a great flood through
which the Mayan ancestors came to the western hemisphere.
-The ancient Egyptians had a legend that the gods had purified the earth by a
great flood. Only a few shepherds escaped. In another legend, Surid, a pre-
dynastic king was warned of a flood in a dream. He built the two greatest of the
Pyramids, recording the secret sciences, the positions of the stars, and all that
was known of arithmetic and geometry on their walls. Curiously, the outer
casings of the pyramids were removed long ago, and the queen's chamber of Khufu's
pyramid shows a curious high water mark inside.
-In Greek tradition, Deucalion and his wife Pyrrha were warned that the gods would
bring a great flood. They built a great boat and escaped with their family. The
boat rested on Mt. Parnassus. He sent out a dove twice. They flung stones over
their heads which became new men and women.
Old Persian traditions speak of a hero named Yima who carefully screened a
thousand couples in good health and of good habits to share his three story deep
"vara" or bunker lined with clay and equipped with underground streets while
fires, floods, and earthquakes ravaged the earth.
-The great flood in Welsh epics, was known as The Third Catastrophe of Briton. The
survivors were Dyfwan and Dyfwach.
The Icelandic Edda speaks of heaven splitting in two, and the sun and the stars
disappearing as the earth sinks into the sea and massive fires rage.
-In Chinese tradition, Fa-He, the founder of Chinese civilization, escaped a great
flood when man rebelled against heaven. His wife and three sons and three
daughters escaped with him.
-The Druids of England had a legend of a righteous patriarch whose descendants
repeopled the earth after it was destroyed in a great flood.
-Polynesians have flood legends from which there were eight survivors.
-Mexicans record that one man and his family were saved in a ship when the earth
was destroyed by a flood.
-In Peruvian legend, many years before the Incas, one man and one woman escaped
in a box that floated in the flood waters. In another legend six people survived
on a float.
-The Mechoachans believed that a single family escaped a flood with sufficient
animals to replenish the new world.
-In Cuba there persists a legend about an old man who escaped a flood in a great
ship.
-In Tahiti, The supreme God became very angry and dragged the earth through the
sea, but their island broke off and was saved.
-In Persian legend, Ahiran the evil one corrupted the world and it was destroyed
by raindrops the size of a bulls head.
-In the Scandinavian Edda, the oceans of the earth are the blood of the great
giant Ymir who was slain by the early gods. All were drowned except a man and
woman who escaped in a bark.
-In the legends of the Brazilians there are accounts of a worldwide flood.
-American Indians have various legends in which 1, 3, or 8 people were saved from
a flood in a boat on a high mountain.
The Book of the Hopi by Frank Waters and White Bear, tells of great cities and
civilizations that ended because "when the people had what they wanted, they
wanted more still and wars began." finally cities were destroyed by a weapon
called patuwvotas (possibly some kind of bomb) in wars that culminated when the
lands and the sea changed places destroying everything.
-A similar story occurs in the Hindu Mahabarata, with a chilling and vivid accountof ancient war between the gods...
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