Talk:Flood legends

Greek Accounts
Greek Mythology was pretty garbled, it wound up having 2 or 3 Flood legends, not counting Plato's Atlantis (In Laws Plato's date for the Ogygian Flood is about the same as his date for Atlantis).--MithirandirOlorin 14:27, 26 May 2011 (PDT)

I've seen conflicting information on which came first, but generally the Ogygian ends the Silver Age and Deucalion the Bronze Age. (I feel CreationWiki is mistaken when saying it occurred during or before the Golden Age). But I do feel the description of the Golden Age most matches the Antediluvian age, though from a Pagan POV.--MithirandirOlorin 14:27, 26 May 2011 (PDT)

Deucalion's is argued to parallel the Bible's the most, he's the only Genealogically linked to Japheth/Iapetus, Javan/Ion and Elisha/Helen though how is garbled.--MithirandirOlorin 14:27, 26 May 2011 (PDT)

The Ogygian Flood is variously dated to 2137 B.C. by Varro, 2376 B.C. by Censorinus, 2050 B.C. by Augustine, sometimes in the 1700s by Africanus and others, and 1628 B.C. according to Jerome (Sounds pretty close to modern estimate for the Thera eruption, the 2 disasters could have become confused in some sources, but that date for Thera is probably based on Uniformitarian dating methods we Creationists shouldn't support).--MithirandirOlorin 14:27, 26 May 2011 (PDT)


 * - Europe:
 * - See:
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_religion#Flood_myth)
 * - (http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html#Europe)


 * - Greece:
 * - Dardanus, ancient Greek mythology
 * - See:
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dardanus)


 * - Greece:
 * - Deucalion, ancient Greek mythology
 * - See:
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deucalion)
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deucalion#Etymology') (sweet (new wine?) + seaman?)
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek_flood_myths)


 * - See:
 * - The "ages of man," by the Greek poet Hesiod's Works and Days (circa 700 B.C.E.).
 * - Golden: (Antediluvian Eden-like conditions) "these humans were said to live among the gods, and freely mingled with them. Peace and harmony prevailed during this age. Humans did not have to work to feed themselves, for the earth provided food in abundance." - Wikipedia.
 * - Silver (Antediluvian conditions - post Eden) "During this Age men refused to worship the gods " - Wikipedia.
 * - Bronze: (Antediluvian conditions - post Eden) "their arms and tools forged of bronze," "The men of this Age were undone by their own violent ways and left no named spirits; instead, they dwell in the "dank house of Hades". This Age came to an end with the flood of Deucalion."
 * - Heroic: "These humans were created from the bones of the earth (stones) through the actions of Deucalion and Pyrrha."
 * - Iron: "Hesiod finds himself in the Iron Age."
 * - See:
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_Man)


 * - Greece: Ogyges, Greek mythology.
 * - See:
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogyges#The_deluge_of_Ogyges)


 * - Italian:
 * - Roman
 * - Ovid's poetry, Metamorphoses (1st Century C.E.).
 * - See:
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovid)
 * - (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamorphoses)
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_Man)

Hopefully this helps a bit.

--Anaccuratesource (talk) 23:02, 27 August 2015 (EDT)

Maya
Don't Mayans believe a Global Flood ended ended the Previous world? before this one began in 3114 B.C. on their calendar?--MithirandirOlorin 14:28, 26 May 2011 (PDT)


 * - The (Quiché) Maya of Mexico and Central America:
 * - The Quiché (the Maya) (believed that a great rain serpent destroyed the world by torrents of water) According to Popol Vuh: "The third race of humans carved from wood were destroyed by a flood" – Wikipedia.
 * - See:
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_flood_myths)
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popol_Vuh)
 * - (http://sacred-texts.com/nam/pvuheng.htm)
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%27iche%27_people)


 * - The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel
 * - See:
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilam_Balam)


 * - The Date 3114 B.C.E. on August 11
 * - Check-out/See:
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/32nd_century_BC#Significant_people)
 * - (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjKUqQ2uSzg) (2:10)
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_calendar)
 * - (http://therealmayanprophecies.com/why-the-maya-calendar-starts-in-3114-bc/#.Vee2b_lViko)


 * - Hope this helps --Anaccuratesource (talk) 23:04, 2 September 2015 (EDT)

Fuhi Reference could be updated
Talk origins (A critic and evolutions) states: This flood story apparently comes from the United States, not China. We have traced it back to Nelson's The Deluge Story in Stone (1931, 181-182). Nelson says that, according to the Hihking, Fuhi "escaped the waters of a deluge, and reappeared as the first man at the reproduction of a renovated world, accompanied by his wife, his three sons and three daughters." There is no mention of a boat. The temple illustration is a separate account which Nelson attributes to Gutzlaff, presumably Karl Gützlaff, a Lutheran missionary in China around 1825. Gutzlaff reports it as a picture of Noah, not Fuhi. There are no further references to allow either account to be checked.

Nelson's "Hihking" most likely refers to the Shan hai ching, or Classic of Mountains and Seas. However, the flood myth described therein is very different from Nelson's account. The Shan hai ching story says that when a great flood came, Kun ("Hugefish") stole breathing-soil (the matter of creation) from the great god to dam the waters, but he did not wait for the great god to command him to use it, so the great god ordered Kun killed. Kun was later restored to life and gave birth to Yu who, at the great god's command, completed Kun's work of damming the flood waters (Birrell 1999, 195-196; Walls and Walls 1984, 94-100). The differences between the two accounts are so profound that we can only speculate how Nelson came by his version. Presumably, he relied on a second- or third-hand version which was conflated with the biblical flood in memories and retellings. Perhaps Fuhi (Fu Hsi, Fu Xi, or other transliterations) became substituted for Yu because both are considered founders of aspects of civilization.

It is possible that the Hihking refers to another work, but we can find no other that is more plausible. The I Ching is a possibility as Fu Hsi is credited with its authorship, but it contains no flood account at all."

Is this true?


 * - Chinese:
 * - Nüwa "She might be considered the second or even the first Chinese ruler, with most sources not putting her on the role, but only her brother and/or husband Fu Xi." - Wikipedia) and her spouse Fu Xi.
 * - See:
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nüwa),
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuxi),
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoo-king)).
 * - Liezi, Chapter 5 ("Questions of Tang")
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liezi).
 * - Chu Chi, Chapter 3 ("Asking Heaven")
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chu_Ci).
 * - The Classic of Mountains and Seas (also known as: Shan Hai Jing)
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shan_Hai_Jing).


 * - Chinese:
 * - Yü the Great.
 * - See:
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu_the_Great)
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Flood_(China)).
 * - (http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html#China)


 * - Chinese:
 * - Magu.
 * - See:
 * - (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magu_(deity))

--Anaccuratesource (talk) 22:54, 27 August 2015 (EDT)

Legends from Across the Globe

 * - There are thousands of flood legends exist all over the globe.


 * - All over the world people speak of an event with striking similarities to the Bible's accurate record of the Great flood - a real event in our human history. We are still learning more about certain cultures and their mythology and belief systems. Some cultures we know little to nothing about. Still we quite a number of records of many flood legends to begin with.


 * - Critics may challenge that flood legends can offer corroborative evidence to the Bible's account. And some critics have asserted these numerous flood legends don't actually prove the Great flood happened. However, in fact they lend very well to the Bible's factual record of flood as an event that happened. And this is what we would kind of expect to find too. The flood was a huge event in our human history. And it's interesting how a surprisingly large number of these flood legends are actually central to peoples' cultural belief systems (legends and mythologies) and their cultural identity, the belief of their origins. Quite a number of these flood legends indicate that only a few survived this Flood and ended up becoming the ancestors to the present population.


 * - Websites:
 * - (http://www.essene.com/Bible/flood.htm#)
 * - (http://creationwiki.org/Flood_legends)
 * - Disclaimer: <...>


 * - Philip Freud's book: Myths and Creation, describes some 500 stories about great deluge from 250 different tribes.
 * – (Genesis 11:9)


 * - Funfact:
 * - "Chinese, Egyptian, Greek, Semitic, and Siberian legends depict the raven as a foreteller of storms or bad weather. Perhaps such legends had Noah and the Flood as their origin. The raven signifies life and creation in the legends of Siberia and is the creator-god of the Aboriginals in North America. In legends of Africa, Asia, and Europe, the raven portends death."
 * – the January 8th, 1997 Awake! Magazine, page 24.

- - - -
 * - Legends from around the world

- - - -
 * - Africa:


 * - Africa:
 * - (http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html#Africa)


 * - Ancient Egypt:
 * - Egyptian book of the Dead.
 * - "People have become rebellious. Atum (or Tem) said he will destroy all he made and return the earth to the Primordial Water which was its original state. Atum (or Tem) will remain, in the form of a serpent, with Osiris." - [Faulkner, plate 30] (Unfortunately the version of the papyrus with the flood story is damaged and unclear. See also Budge, p. ccii.)
 * - Also see:
 * - Mercatante, A.S., Encyclopedia of World Mythology and Legend, Child & Associates Publishing, NSW, Australia, p. 613, 1988.
 * - See:
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atum)
 * - (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_the_dead)
 * - See:
 * - (Sekhmet killed so many people the Nile river and the Ocean flooded)
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hathor#Bloodthirsty_warrior)
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sekhmet)
 * - Check out these museums:
 * - The British Museum
 * - (http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/cultures/africa/ancient_egypt.aspx')
 * - The Egyptian Museum
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_Museum)


 * - Cameroon:
 * - See:
 * - (http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html#Africa)


 * - Chad:
 * - See:
 * - Moussaye tribe:
 * - "Once upon a time, in a faraway place, there lived a family. One day, the mother of this family wanted to prepare a sumptuous meal for her loved ones. So she took her mortar and pestle to pound the grain into flour. At that time the sky was much closer than it is now. In fact, if you reached up with your hand, you could touch it. She pounded the grain with all her strength, and the millet she pounded quickly turned to flour. But as she pounded, the woman carelessly lifted the pestle too high, and she poked a hole in the sky! Immediately, a great quantity of water started falling to the earth. This was no ordinary rain. It rained for seven days and seven nights until the whole earth was covered with water. As the rain fell, the sky began to rise until it ended up where it is now—unreachably high. What a catastrophe for humanity! Since then, we have lost the privilege of touching the sky with our hands." – (The Watchtower, September 15, 1996 page. 25)


 * - Congo
 * - See:
 * - (http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html#Africa)
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boa_people)


 * - Congo
 * - See:
 * - (http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html#Africa)
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luba-Kasai_language)


 * - Congo, The Republic of Congo, Angola, Zaire:
 * - See:
 * - (http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html#Africa)
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kongo_people)


 * - Kenya:
 * - The Kikuyu people.
 * - See:
 * - (http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html#Africa)
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kikuyu_people)


 * - Kenya:
 * - The Nandi People
 * - See:
 * - (http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html#Africa)
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nandi_people)


 * - Mandinka people of West Africa (Gambia, Guinea, Mali, Sierra Leone, Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Liberia, Guinea-Bissau, Niger and Mauritania)
 * - See:
 * - (http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html#Africa)
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandinka_people)


 * - Nigeria/Northern Cameroon:
 * - The Ekoi people
 * - See:
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekoi_people)
 * - (http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html#Africa)


 * - Nigeria
 * - See:
 * - (http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html#Africa)
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibibio_people)


 * - Southwestern Africa:
 * - The Yoruba people
 * - See:
 * - (http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html#Africa)
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoruba_people)


 * - Tanzania:
 * - The Kwaya people, in the Mara Region of northern Tanzania, on the southeastern shore of Lake Victoria.
 * - See:
 * - (http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html#Africa)
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwaya_people)


 * - Zulu:
 * - See:
 * - Fun-fact:
 * - (Oshunmare - Divine rainbow serpent associated with creation and procreation, the creator of Beer. – Wikipedia.)
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oshunmare)

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 * - Americas:

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 * - North America:


 * - Canada/U.S.A.
 * - Anishinaabe First Nation peoples, the story of Nanabozho (or Naniboujou)
 * - The Anishinaabe peoples (Anishinaabeg people, an Algic people) Whose traditional territory in Canadian provinces of Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec and the U.S. states of: "Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio.
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Anishinaabe-Anishinini_Map.PNG)
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naniboujou).
 * - (http://www.potawatomiheritage.org/index.php/component/k2/item/145?show=show)


 * - How do we know this an ancient story?


 * - Means of story preservation:
 * - Oral Traditions, including songs.
 * - See:
 * - See:
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anishinaabe_traditional_beliefs#Aadizookaan)


 * - Frederick Waugh was an ethnologist who researched Anishinaabe (Ojibwa) customs in 1916. He mentions the legendary character “Nanabojo” in some of his notebooks. And Frances Densmore's "Chippewa Customs" in 1925 wrote about Nanbozho as well.
 * - The telling of legend of Nanabozho speaks of prophet messenger sent by the Gichi Manitu (Meaning God. Literally, the "Great Spirit") named Nanabozho (meaning: white rabbit), shape-shifting trickster spirits, wicked "serpent" people (the antagonists in the story), all during a period of quarreling and violence, Nanabozho was a divine messenger (like a prophet and preacher) who warned the people, people who scoffed Nanabozho, the Nanabozho constructs a wooden craft to survive the oncoming flood; Nanabozho puts the animals on it; preserving them in the process, a flooded earth, creatures sent to forge for dry earth.)
 * - See:
 * - (http://archives.cbc.ca/science_technology/unexplained/topics/1462-9703/)
 * - (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Etn92Ms8plo)


 * - Wisakedjak, Among the Northern Algonquian (Omàmiwininiwak) and Dene First Nation people.
 * - See:
 * - (http://www.anishinabenation.ca/eng/alg_history_en.htm)
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisakedjak)


 * - The Birch Scrolls (wiigwaasabakoon) (possibly other means including: copper, slate, pottery and other artifacts)
 * - Singular: Wiigwaasabak (plural: wiigwaasabakoon) in Midewiwin ceremonial usage: mide-wiigwaas. - ("ascribed to Nanabozho as its founder" – Wikipedia)
 * - See:
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiigwaasabak)
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midewiwin#Origins)
 * - (https://books.google.ca/books?id=YRB1Rne1Yz4C&pg=PA146&lpg=PA146&dq=nanabozho+pictograph&source=bl&ots=ZljdBtaxPU&sig=2LpA72LySZOn2ldjXbmLkiB11rE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDsQ6AEwCWoVChMIyejpxcCYxwIVRe-ACh05dwJU#v=onepage&q=nanabozho%20pictograph&f=false)


 * - Glyphs - (e.g., Pictographs (pictoral drawings using pigment), Petroglyphs (rock carvings) as well as Story-hide and Birch Scrolls mentioned above.
 * - See:
 * - (The glyphs identified as Nanabozho (or Naniboujou, Nanabush) on Mazinaw Rock, at Bon Echo Provincial Park, Ontario. The site of the Mazinaw pictographs was designated as a National Historic Site of Canada in 1982.)
 * - See:
 * - (http://www.ontarioparks.com/park/bonecho)
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazinaw_Rock)


 * - The glyphs identified as Nanabozho (or Naniboujou, Nanabush) at "sacred site" is known as “The Teaching Rocks” at Petroglyphs Provincial Park
 * - See:
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroglyphs_Provincial_Park)
 * - (http://www.ontarioparks.com/park/petroglyphs)
 * - (http://www.ontario-canada-travel.com/petroglyphs-provincial-park.html#.VcAT7vlViko)
 * - (http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/nanabozo/)


 * - The Wampum bead belt system (e.g., "Seven Fire Prophecy" belt)
 * - See:
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wampum)
 * - (http://aboriginalliving.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Fleming_Anishinaabe-Great-Migration1.pdf)


 * - Comparative analysis with other neighbouring North–American First Nations (e.g., Haudenosaunee "Turtle-Island")


 * - See:
 * - Jaspar Dankaerts (The Journal of Jasper Dankaerts, 1679-1680) (Turtle Island and the Delaware First Nation)
 * - See:
 * - (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaspar_Danckaerts)


 * - Also See:
 * - Algonquian First Nation People
 * - The Cree First Nation, and the story of Wisakedjak.
 * - Innu First Nation People
 * - The Wabanaki First Nation peoples: the Mi'kmaq, Maliseet, Passamaquoddy, Abenaki and Penobscot and the The story of Glooscap.
 * - See:
 * - (http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html#Micmac)
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glooscap)

-


 * - Canada:
 * - The Cree First Nation people:
 * - Wīhsakecāhkw, "responsible for a great flood which destroyed the world originally made by the Creator"
 * - See:
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisakedjak)


 * - Canada:
 * - The Haida First Nation people:
 * - "Marius Barbeau of the Canadian Museum of Civilization collected a flood legend from Henry Young of Skidegate in 1947." – Civilization Museum.
 * - See:
 * - (http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/exhibitions/aborig/haida/happr01e.shtml)
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cree)


 * - Canada:
 * - The Innu First Nation people (also known as the: Montagnais (Messou) First Nation people)
 * - Mishaabooz and the Great Flood.
 * - See:
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanabozho#Mishaabooz_name_variations)
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innu)


 * - U.S.A. (Alaska)
 * - The Tlingit/Kolusches Native American First Nation People:
 * - See:
 * - (http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html#Tlingit)
 * - (http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1200000758?q=Tlingit&p=par)
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tlingit)


 * - U.S.A. (Arizona)
 * - The Hopi First Nation people
 * - The Entrance into the Forth World after a World flood.
 * - See:
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopi_mythology#Entrance_into_the_Fourth_World)
 * - (http://www.philtar.ac.uk/encyclopedia/nam/hopi.html)
 * - (http://study.com/academy/lesson/hopi-indian-tribe-facts-history-culture.html)
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiva)
 * - (http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html#Hopi)
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopi)


 * - U.S.A. (California)
 * - The Wiyot Native American First Nation and people.
 * - "The Wiyot tribe of California say that the condor recreated mankind after Above Old Man wiped humanity out with a flood." – Wikipedia.
 * - See:
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_condor#Relationship_with_humans)
 * - (http://www.wiyot.us/)
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiyot_people)


 * - U.S.A. (Mississippi/Southeastern United States of America)
 * - The Choctaw Native American First Nation people.
 * - "men became so corrupt that the Great Spirit destroyed them in a flood. Only one man was saved—a prophet whose warnings the people disregarded, and whom the Great Spirit then directed to build a raft from sassafras logs. After many weeks, a small bird guided the prophet to an island where the Great Spirit changed the bird into a beautiful woman who became the wife of the prophet. Their children then repopulated the world" - Reference Morrison, W.B., Ancient Choctaw Legend of the Great Flood. - (http://creation.com/many-flood-legends#txtRef3)
 * - See:
 * - (http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2002160?q=Choctaw&p=par)
 * - (http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html#Choctaw)
 * - (http://creation.com/many-flood-legends#endRef6)
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choctaw)
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choctaw_mythology)


 * - U.S.A. (New Mexico/Arizona)
 * - The Pueblo and Tohono O'odham (the term Papago, applied to them by conquistadores) Native American First Nation peoples.
 * - See:
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montezuma_(mythology))
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tohono_O%27odham_people)
 * - (http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1200000758?q=Papago&p=par)


 * - U.S.A. (North Dakota)
 * - "The Arikara Native American First Nation and People: Nishanu sends, the Great sky chief and creator sent a flood to destroy a race of wicked giants. Sparing a few individuals by planting into the ground as corn." The Watchtower January 15th, 1992 page 6.
 * - See:
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arikara)


 * - U.S.A. (North Dakota)
 * - The Mandan Native American First Nation people:
 * - The "Lone Man" and the Great Flood.
 * - See:
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandan#Religion)
 * - (http://www.mythologydictionary.com/lone-man-mythology.html


 * - U.S.A. (Washington)
 * - The Yakima Native American First Nation people:
 * - See:
 * - (http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html#Yakima)

- - - -
 * - Mesoamerica:


 * - Mexico: Western Mexico.
 * - Michoacan
 * - See:
 * - (http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html#Tarascan)
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pur%C3%A9pecha_people)


 * - Mexico: West Central Western Mexico.
 * - Huichol.
 * - An Huichol man was told by "Grandmother Nakawé, the Huichol goddess of earth and the vegetation, of an upcoming a great flood. She told him to make a box from a fig tree big enough for himself and a black female dog."
 * - See:
 * - (http://www.mexconnect.com/articles/2612-how-the-huichol-indians-brought-their-art-to-lake-chapala)
 * - (http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html#Huichol)


 * - Mexico: Central Western Mexico.
 * - Aztec (the Nahuas): Coxcox; Nata; Tapi and his woman named Xochiquetzal.
 * - See:
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coxcox)
 * - See: the Codex Chimalpopoca.
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Chimalpopoca).
 * - Location of the codex: in the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia located in Mexico City under "Collección Antiguo no. 159".
 * - See:
 * - (http://www.inah.gob.mx/)
 * - Also See:
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tezcatlipoca)
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coxcox
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xochiquetzal)
 * - Also See:
 * - http://www.godslaidbare.com/pantheons/aztec/nata-and-nena.php
 * - http://www.mythologydictionary.com/nata-mythology.html
 * - http://www.leyendasmexicanascortas.com/leyendas-cortas/nata-y-nene/


 * - Mexico: Central Western Mexico.
 * - Aztec (the Nahuas):
 * - The Giant Xelhua
 * - See:
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xelhua)


 * - Mexico: Central Western Mexico.
 * - Aztec (the Nahuas): "the five (eras) suns"
 * - See:
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Suns)
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalchiuhtlicue')


 * - Summary:


 * - 1) (Nahui-Ocelotl: "Jaguar Sun")
 * - 'An era the world was inhabited by Giants who were devoured by jaguars.' – Wikipedia. (Giant destroyed)


 * - 2) (Nahui-Ehécatl: "Wind Sun")
 * - Earth's inhabitants were transformed into monkeys. This world was destroyed by hurricanes – Wikipedia. (World destroyed by hurricanes)


 * - 3) (Nahui-Quiahuitl: "Rain Sun")
 * - Earth's inhabitants were destroyed by rain of fire. Only birds survived (or inhabitants survived by becoming birds). – Wikipedia. (World destroyed by "rain" of fire.)


 * - 4) (Nahui-Atl: "Water Sun")
 * - This world was flooded by Goddess Chalchiuhtlicue. " A couple escaped but were transformed into dogs." – Wikipedia. (World destroyed by a flood)


 * - 5) (Nahui-Ollin: Earthquake Sun)
 * - "We are the inhabitants of this world. This world will be destroyed by earthquakes (or one large earthquake)." – Wikipedia.


 * - Mexico:
 * - Toltec.
 * - See:
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quetzalcoatl#Attributes)


 * - Guyana:
 * - Arawak
 * - (http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2002160?q=Arawak&p=par)
 * - (http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html#Arawak)


 * - See:
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_flood_myths)

- - - -
 * - Central America:


 * - Guatemala:
 * - "Catholic bishop Las Casas wrote Guatemalan Indians “called it Butic, which is the word which means flood of many waters and means the final judgment, and so they believe that another Butic is about to come, which is another flood and judgment, not of water, but of fire." – From the book entitled: Mankind’s Search for God (published by Jehovah's Witnesses, Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society.
 * - See:
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartolom%C3%A9_de_las_Casas)
 * - (http://www.mesoweb.com/pari/publications/journal/701/Flood_e.pdf)


 * - Central America:
 * - Caribs.
 * - See:
 * - (http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html#Carib)
 * - 


 * - Central America:
 * - (Quiché) Maya
 * - The Quiché Maya (believed that a great rain serpent destroyed the world by torrents of water) According to Popol Vuh: "The third race of humans carved from wood were destroyed by a flood" – Wikipedia.
 * - See:
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_flood_myths)
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popol_Vuh)
 * - (http://sacred-texts.com/nam/pvuheng.htm)
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%27iche%27_people)

- - - -
 * - South America


 * - Brazil/Peru:
 * - Chincha People.
 * - "In Peru the Chincha have a legend of a five-day flood that destroyed all men except one whom a talking llama led to safety on a mountain." – January 15, 1992 Watchtower page 7.
 * - See:
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chincha_people)


 * - Brazil:
 * - Tupinamba people of Brazil
 * - "The Tupinamba Indians of Brazil spoke of a time when a great flood drowned all their ancestors except those who survived in canoes or in the tops of tall trees." – January 15, 1992 Watchtower page 7.
 * - See:
 * - (http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html#RiodeJaniero)
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupinamb%C3%A1)
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tup%C3%AD_people)


 * - Brazil:
 * - Cashinaua people of Brazil.
 * - See:
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaxinaw%C3%A1_people)


 * - Bolivia:
 * - Chiriguano
 * - See:
 * - (http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1200000758?q=Chiriguano&p=par)
 * - (http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2002160?q=Chiriguano&p=par)
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guaran%C3%AD_people)


 * - Bolivia/Peru:
 * - Aymara
 * - See:
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aymara_people')


 * - Bolivia/Peru and other places:
 * - Inca (Quechuas)
 * - "one Inca legend claims that the original Incas were flood survivors. The book Sociografia del Inkario states: “All the traditions of the people of the Andean altiplano speak of a flood that had submerged the whole earth.” According to one Inca legend, all living beings perished. However, another version speaks of some individuals "who, by hiding in a hollow up on a very high mountain peak, were saved and repopulated the earth." – The Watchtower January 22, 1992.
 * - "Paricia was a god who sent a flood to kill humans who did not respect him adequately. Possibly another name for Pacha Kamaq" – Wikipedia.
 * - Paria caca (or Paryaqaqa)
 * - "Unu Pachakuti is the name of a flood that Viracocha caused to destroy the people around Lake Titicaca, saving two to bring civilization to the rest of the world." – Wikipedia.
 * - "According to a myth recorded by Juan de Betanzos, Viracocha rose from Lake Titicaca (or sometimes the cave of Paqariq Tampu) during the time of darkness to bring forth light. He made the sun, moon, and the stars. He made mankind by breathing into stones, but his first creation were brainless giants that displeased him. So he destroyed it with a flood and made a new, better one from smaller stones. Viracocha eventually disappeared across the Pacific Ocean (by walking on the water), and never returned. He wandered the earth disguised as a beggar, teaching his new creations the basics of civilization, as well as working numerous miracles. He wept when he saw the plight of the creatures he had created." "It was thought that Viracocha would re-appear in times of trouble. Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa wrote that Viracocha was described as "a man of medium height, white and dressed in a white robe like an alb secured round the waist, and that he carried a staff and a book in his hands." In one legend he had one son, Inti, and two daughters, Mama Killa and Pachamama. In this legend, he destroyed the people around Lake Titicaca with a Great Flood called Unu Pachakuti, saving two to bring civilization to the rest of the world, these two beings are Manco Cápac, the son of Inti (sometimes taken as the son of Viracocha), which name means "splendid foundation", and Mama Uqllu, which means "mother fertility". These two founded the Inca civilization carrying a golden staff, called 'tapac-yauri'. In another legend, he fathered the first eight civilized human beings. In some stories, he has a wife called Mama Qucha."
 * - "In another legend, Viracocha had two sons, Imahmana Viracocha and Tocapo Viracocha. After the Great Flood and the Creation, Viracocha sent his sons to visit the tribes to the northeast and northwest to determine if they still obeyed his commandments. Viracocha himself traveled North. During their journey, Imaymana and Tocapo gave names to all the trees, flowers, fruits, and herbs. They also taught the tribes which of these were edible, which had medicinal properties, and which were poisonous. Eventually, Viracocha, Tocapo and Imahmana arrived at Cusco (in modern-day Peru) and the Pacific seacoast where they walked across the water until they disappeared. The word "Viracocha" literally means "Sea Foam." – Wikipedia.


 * - Wikipedia referenced Sources:
 * - Alan Kolata's Valley of the Spirits: a Journey into the Lost Realm of the Aymara (1996), pages 65-72
 * - Andrews, Tamra (2000). Dictionary of Nature Myths. Oxford University Press. p. 216. ISBN 0-19-513677-2.
 * - "Viracocha". Bloomsbury Dictionary of Myth. Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd., London. 1996. Retrieved 2009-02-10.
 * - Viracocha and the Coming of the Incas from "History of the Incas" by Pedro Sarmiento De Gamboa, translated by Clements Markham, Cambridge: The Hakluyt Society 1907, pp. 28-58.
 * - "Glossary, Inca Gods". First People of America and Canada - Turtle Island. Retrieved 2009-02-10.


 * - See:
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paricia)
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unu_Pachakuti)
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viracocha)
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paryaqaqa)
 * - (http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2002160?q=quechua&p=par)
 * - (http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html#Quechua)
 * - (http://museoinka.unsaac.edu.pe/)


 * - Colombia:
 * - Muisca people of Colombia
 * - "Legend has when the people forsook the teachings of Bochica, a flood was sent."
 * - See:
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muisca_people)
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bochica)


 * - Ecuador: (provinces of Azuay & Cañar)
 * - Cañari
 * - See:
 * - (http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html#Canari)
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ca%C3%B1ari#Myth)


 * - Peru:
 * - Indians of Huarochirí
 * - (http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1200000758?q=Huarochir%C3%AD&p=par)
 * - See:


 * - Peru:
 * - Uru Indians
 * - (http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/s/r1/lp-e?q=uru&p=par)
 * - See:


 * - South America:
 * - The Ona & Yahgan of Tierra del Fuego.
 * - See:
 * - (http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html#Yamana)


 * - Chile:
 * - The Mapuche (Araucanians) people.
 * - The Legend of Trentren Vilu and Caicai Vilu and the Deluge.
 * - See:
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_of_Trentren_Vilu_and_Caicai_Vilu)
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilote_mythology)
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapuche)
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapuche_religion)
 * - (http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html#Araucania)

- - - -
 * - Asia:


 * - Asia:
 * - (http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html#Asia)


 * - Japan
 * - Ainu people of Japan
 * - See:
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ainu_creation_myth)


 * - Andaman Islands:
 * - See:
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puluga)


 * - Chinese, China:
 * - Nüwa (" Depending on the source, she might be considered the second or even the first Chinese ruler, with most sources not putting her on the role, but only her brother and/or husband Fu Xi." - Wikipedia) and her spouse Fu Xi.
 * - See:
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nüwa),
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuxi),
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoo-king)).
 * - Liezi, Chapter 5 ("Questions of Tang")
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liezi).
 * - Chu Chi, Chapter 3 ("Asking Heaven")
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chu_Ci).
 * - The Classic of Mountains and Seas (also known as: Shan Hai Jing)
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shan_Hai_Jing).


 * - Chinese, China:
 * - Yü the Great.
 * - See:
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu_the_Great)
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Flood_(China)).
 * - (http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html#China)


 * - Chinese, China:
 * - Magu.
 * - See:
 * - (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magu_(deity))


 * - China/Vietnam:
 * - " “till the waters reached the sky, and all living beings perished except two, a brother and a sister, who were saved in a huge chest. They took with them into the chest a pair of every sort of animal..." - Frazer, J.G., Folklore in the Old Testaments: Studies in Comparative Religon, Legend and Law (Abridged Edition), Avenel Books, New York, NY, USA, p. 107, 1988.
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahnar_people)
 * - (http://creation.com/many-flood-legends#endRef6)
 * - 


 * - Indian:
 * - Manu, Hinduism.
 * - See:
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manu_(Hinduism)
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satapatha_Brahmana
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sraddhadeva_Manu)
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsya)
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortoise#In_religion)
 * - (http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html#Hindu)


 * - Indian:
 * - Assam, Simte People.
 * - See:
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simte_people
 * - (http://www.simtepeople.com/#&panel1-3)
 * - (http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html#Assam)


 * - Iranian:
 * - See:
 * - Source: Zend-Avesta
 * - Disclaimer notes: Some critics challenge as an actual flood legend.
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zend)
 * - (http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html#Persian)


 * - Iranian:
 * - Tishtrya
 * - See:
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angra_Mainyu)
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tishtrya)
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apaosha)
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vourukasha)


 * - Laos:
 * - Khun Borom Rachathirat
 * - See:
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khun_Borom)


 * - Mongolia:
 * - Altaic ethnic group of Mongolia
 * - See:
 * - (http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html#Altaic)
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tengri)
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bai-Ulgan)
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkic_mythology)
 * - (http://www.nationalmuseum.mn/)
 * - 
 * - 


 * - Mongolia:
 * - A traditional Mongolian tale of Hailibu the Hunter.
 * - See:
 * - (http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html#Altaic)
 * - (http://talesofwisdom.com/2009/11/hailibu-the-kindhearted-hunter-2/)
 * - 


 * - Phlippines:
 * - The Igorot/Ifugao people of the Philippines
 * - "Only a brother and sister survived a Flood by taking refuge on Mount Pokis" – The Watchtower January 15, 1992 on page 7.
 * - See:
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igorot_people)
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ifugao)
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Polis)
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagada)
 * - (http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html#Ifugao)


 * - Thailand:
 * - Lisu and Hmong tribes. 
 * - See:
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_tribe_(Thailand))
 * - Also See:
 * - (http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html#Kammu)

- - - -
 * - Austr-Polyensia:


 * - Australian Aboriginal
 * - (http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html#Australia)
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_Australians#Belief_systems)
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Aboriginal_mythology)

The current entry in the article states that "This legend is undoubtedly the product of aboriginal legends merging with those of visiting missionaries, and there does not appear to be any native flood stories from Australia." What is the source of this claim? There are no references. Also, in a video by Answers in Genesis, called Noah's Ark: Thinking Outside the Box at about 8:36, Ken Ham says he was struck by the similarity of accounts in Australian Aborigine stories. The books shown are: 1. Aboriginal Myths, Legends, and Fables and 2. Aboriginal Myths: Tales of the Dreamtime, both by A.W. Reed. See https://answersingenesis.org/kids/videos/bible/noahs-ark-thinking-outside-box/. --OppositeDay (talk) 00:35, 1 September 2020 (EDT)OppositeDay 23:33, 31 August 2020 (CST)
 * - Australia
 * - The Gunai or Kurnai, often now referred to as the Gunaikurna people of Australia.
 * - The tale of Tiddalik the Frog legend and Borun, the pelican Legend.
 * - See:
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiddalik)
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruatapu)
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C4%81whaki#Flood_myth)
 * - (http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html#Kurnai)
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunai)
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunai#Creation_story)
 * - Malaysia
 * - The Temuan People.
 * - The Temuan Flood legend.
 * - See:
 * - (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temuan#Flood_Legend)

- - - -
 * - Europe:


 * - Europe:
 * - See:
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_religion#Flood_myth)
 * - (http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html#Europe)


 * - Greece:
 * - Dardanus, ancient Greek mythology
 * - See:
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dardanus)


 * - Greece:
 * - Deucalion, ancient Greek mythology
 * - See:
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deucalion)
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deucalion#Etymology') (sweet (new wine?) + seaman?)
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek_flood_myths)
 * - The works of Critias and Timaeus of ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician Plato (the 5th and 4th century B.C.E.)
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critias_(dialogue)#Content)


 * - See:
 * - The "ages of man," by the Greek poet Hesiod's Works and Days (circa 700 B.C.E.).
 * - Golden: (Antediluvian Eden-like conditions) "these humans were said to live among the gods, and freely mingled with them. Peace and harmony prevailed during this age. Humans did not have to work to feed themselves, for the earth provided food in abundance." - Wikipedia.
 * - Silver (Antediluvian conditions - post Eden) "During this Age men refused to worship the gods " - Wikipedia.
 * - Bronze: (Antediluvian conditions - post Eden) "their arms and tools forged of bronze," "The men of this Age were undone by their own violent ways and left no named spirits; instead, they dwell in the "dank house of Hades". This Age came to an end with the flood of Deucalion."
 * - Heroic: "These humans were created from the bones of the earth (stones) through the actions of Deucalion and Pyrrha."
 * - Iron: "Hesiod finds himself in the Iron Age."
 * - See:
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_Man)


 * - Greece: Ogyges, Greek mythology.
 * - See:
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogyges#The_deluge_of_Ogyges)


 * - Italian:
 * - Roman
 * - Ovid's poetry, Metamorphoses (1st Century C.E.).
 * - See:
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovid)
 * - (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamorphoses)
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_Man)


 * - Norway:
 * - "Ragnarök", Norse mythology.
 * - See:
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnar%C3%B6k)
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ymir)


 * - Norse:
 * - Bergelmir, Norse mythology. – (Although: "Scholars John Lindow and Carolyne Larrington agree that the Prose Edda account of the flood borrowed from Judeo-Christian tradition of Noah's Ark" Wikipedia).
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ymir)
 * - (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edda)


 * - Finland:
 * - "Väinämöinen attempts a heroic feat that results in a gushing wound, the blood from which covers the entire earth." – Wikipedia.
 * - “The Finnish Kalevalametric runes (oral folk poems) about Väinämöinen and his wound may be connected with flood myths. I’ll include here a variant of the poem, a translation into English and a short commentary, all from the book Finnish Folk Poetry: Epic: an Anthology in Finnish and English / edited and translated by Matti Kuusi, Keith Bosley, Michael Branch (Finnish Literature Society, 1977).


 * - Folklorist Martti Haavio has written an article on the subject, but unfortunately only in Finnish: Haavio, Martti: Naainas. In: Kalevalaseuran vuosikirja 43 (1963), pp. 53-96.


 * - According to Haavio the oldest literary records of these folk poems/runes (Wound) are in:
 * - Christianus Erici Lencqvist’s dissertation – 1782.
 * - Christfrid Ganander’s Mythologia Fennica – 1789.
 * - Most recorded variants of these poems were collected in the 19th century. But the runes themselves are naturally much older.
 * - Dating them is very difficult, though. There are different theories. According to folklorist Matti Kuusi these poems of belong to the early period of Kalevalaic poetry, to the period well before the Middle Ages.”
 * - See:
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergelmir)
 * - See:
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_flood_myth)
 * - (https://bay172.mail.live.com/mail/ViewOfficePreview.aspx?messageid=mgTF8DsmBK5RGT6Ww75afb0g2&folderid=flinbox&attindex=0&cp=-1&attdepth=0&n=28739574)


 * - Welsh people of Wales, United Kingdom:
 * - Dwyfan and Dwyfach (Is there pre-Christian records of this legend?).
 * - "The lake of Llion burst, flooding all lands. Dwyfan and Dwyfach escaped in a mastless ship with pairs of every sort of living creature. They landed in Prydain (Britain) and repopulated the world." - Source: [Gaster, pp. 92-93] (Gaster, Theodor H. Myth, Legend, and Custom in the Old Testament, Harper & Row, New York, 1969. (Most of the flood stories in this work are taken from Frazer, 1919.)
 * - See:
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwyfan_and_Dwyfach)
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afanc)
 * - (http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780198609674.001.0001/acref-9780198609674-e-1693)
 * - (http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html#Welsh)


 * - Hungary/Russia:
 * - Ugrian people taught "that flood survivors used rafts but drifted to different parts of the earth." – The Watchtower January 15, 1992 on page 7.
 * - See:
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugrians)


 * - Russia:
 * - The Mansi people (obsolete: Voguls) of Western Siberia.
 * - "After seven years of drought, the Great Woman said to the Great Man that rains had come elsewhere; how should they save themselves. The Great Man counseled the other giants to make boats from cut poplars, anchor them with ropes of willow roots 500 fathoms long, and provide them with seven days of food and with pots of melted butter to grease the ropes. Those who did not make all the preparations perished when the waters came. After seven days, the waters sank. But all plants and animals had perished, even the fish. The survivors, on the brink of starvation, prayed to the great god Numi-târom, who recreated living things." [Gaster, pp. 93-94]
 * - See:
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansi_people)
 * - (http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html#Vogul)
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Num-Torum)
 * - 


 * - Russia:
 * - The Soyot people of Siberia, Russia:
 * - "A giant frog, which was supporting the earth, moved and caused the globe to be flooded. An old man and his family survived on a raft he had made. When the water receded, the raft grounded on a high mountain." – The Watchtower January 15, 1992 on page 7.
 * - See:
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyot)
 * - 


 * - Russia:
 * - Samoyedic peoples of Northern Siberia, Russia
 * - "Seven people were saved in a boat from a flood. A terrible draught followed the flood, but the people were saved by digging a deep hole in which water formed. However, all but one young man and woman died of hunger. These two saved themselves by eating the mice which came out of the ground. The human race is descended from this couple." - [Holmberg, pp. 367-368]
 * - See:
 * - (http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html#Samoyed)
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samoyedic_peoples)
 * - 


 * - Russia:
 * - The Yenisey-Ostyak speaking people of North Central Siberia, Russia.
 * - "Flood waters rose for seven days. Some people and animals were saved by climbing on floating logs and rafters. A strong north wind blew for seven days and scattered the people, which is why there are now different peoples speaking different languages" - [Holmberg, p. 367]
 * - See:
 * - (http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html#Yenisey)
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeniseian_languages#Family_division)
 * - 


 * - Russia:
 * - The Kamchadals people of Northeast Siberia, Russia:
 * - "A flood covered the whole land in the early days of the world. A few people saved themselves on rafts made from bound-together tree trunks. They carried their property and provisions and used stones tied to straps as anchors to prevent being swept out to sea. They were left stranded on mountains when the waters receded." - [Holmberg, p. 368; Gaster, p. 100]
 * - See:
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamchadals)


 * - Russia:
 * - Buryat People of Eastern Siberia, Russia:
 * - See:
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buryats)

- - - -
 * - Near/Middle East:


 * - Ancient Mesopotamian:
 * - Atrahasis (Utnapishtim), (Epic of Gilgamesh).
 * - See:
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_of_Gilgamesh)
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atra-Hasis)
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilgamesh_flood_myth)
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow#Religious_Belief)


 * - Instructions of Shuruppak
 * - Housed at: The National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad? (Looted?)
 * - (http://www.iraqmuseum.org/)
 * - See:
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructions_of_Shuruppak)


 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumerian_creation_myth)
 * - See:
 * - Pennsylvania Museum: Object B10673
 * - See:
 * - (http://www.penn.museum/collections/object/97591)


 * - "Cuneiform tablet with the Atrahasis Epic"
 * - Housed at: The British Museum, Room 55 (ME 78941)
 * - Item originally from a site at: Sippar, southern Iraq
 * - (http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/galleries/middle_east/room_56_mesopotamia.aspx)
 * - (http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/me/c/cuneiform_the_atrahasis_epic.aspx)


 * - The Flood Tablet, relating part of the Epic of Gilgamesh
 * - Housed at: The British Museum, Room 56 (ME K3375)
 * - See:
 * - (http://www.britishmuseum.org/visiting/floor_plans_and_galleries.aspx?s=room-55)
 * - (http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/me/t/the_flood_tablet.aspx)


 * - Ancient Mesopotamian:
 * - Ziusudra, (Sumerian legend).
 * - See:
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziusudra)
 * - (http://www.kplctv.com/story/24565710/ancient-tablet-describes-ark-of-great-flood-as-round)
 * - (http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/2014/01/27/4000-year-old-tablet-noahs-ark)
 * - (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2753211/Noah-s-Ark-revealed-Scaled-replica-based-4000-year-old-tablet-s-instructions-build-hand-India.html)


 * - Epic of Gilgamesh vs. the Bible's account of Noah: "Although the Bible does not specify the exact length of time Noah spent building the ark, the account allows for construction that took 50 or 60 years. Genesis 5:32; 7:6 These factors stand in stark contrast with the well-known story found in the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh. The (one version of the) epic describes a massive, ungainly (non sea worthy) cube (which would have repeatedly flipped over) some 200 feet [60 m] on each side that was built in only seven days. Unlike that Babylonian legend, the Bible’s Deluge account engenders confidence in its accuracy." - The Awake February 08, 1997, page 27. (brackets mine)

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 * - Flavius Josephus' references:


 * - Flavius Josephus (Yosef ben Matityahu) was a Levite priest and Jewish scholar, he references the writings of the following to support his belief in the flood:


 * - 1) Berossus (Bel-Reushu) the Chalden's writing (circa 290-278 B.C.E.).


 * - See:
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berossus)
 * - The Flood Legend with the man Xisuthrus (Zi-ud-sura and Zin-Suddu) building an ark vessel.
 * - - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziusudra)


 * - Berossus is quoted by Abydenus, Apollodorus, Lucius Cornelius Alexander Polyhistor (of Miletus), Flavius Josephus (Yosef ben-Matityahu), Georgius Syncellus, Eusebius of Caesarea.


 * - Abydenus (Circa 200 B.C.E.) Author of “History of the Chaldeans and Assyrians” fragments are preserved by Eusebius in his Praeparatio Evangelica, and by Cyril of Alexandria in his work against Julian and by Syncellus.
 * - See:
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abydenus)
 * - ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eusebius)
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praeparatio_evangelica)
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril_of_Alexandria)


 * - Apollodorus - (Circa 180 B.C.E. – after 120 B.C.E.)
 * - See:
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollodorus_of_Athens)


 * - Lucius Cornelius Alexander Polyhistor (of Miletus) - (50 B.C.E)
 * - See:
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Polyhistor)
 * - (http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/af/af02.htm)

in Chapter 3, (Paragraph 6)
 * - Flavius Josephus (Yosef ben-Matityahu) (circa 110 C.E.), in the Book One of “Jewish Antiques” (Also known as “Anitques of the Jews”)
 * - See:
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephus)
 * - (http://www.biblestudytools.com/history/flavius-josephus/antiquities-jews/book-1/chapter-3.html)
 * - (http://sacred-texts.com/jud/josephus/ant-1.htm)
 * - Flavius Josephus said Berossus alluded to Abram (later named: Abraham).
 * - (http://www.biblestudytools.com/history/flavius-josephus/antiquities-jews/book-1/chapter-7.html)


 * - Eusebius (circa 325 C.E)
 * - See:
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eusebius)


 * - Georgius Syncellus (Circa 810 C.E),
 * - See:
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Syncellus)


 * - 2) Hieronymus the Egyptian.
 * - See:


 * - 3) Mnaseas.
 * - See:
 * - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnaseas)


 * - 4) Nicolaus of Damascus. (in his 96th book.)
 * - See:
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_of_Damascus#References)

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 * - Apocalyptic Pseudepigrapha literature:


 * - Book of Enoch.
 * - See:
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Enoch).


 * - Book of Noah.
 * - See:
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Noah).


 * - Book of Jubilees.
 * - See:
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Jubilees).


 * - Book of Giants.
 * - See:
 * - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Giants).