Are there any other mythologies besides Christianity that have a flood, paralleling the flood in Genesis?

Answer 1

And had Katrina happened to a bygone tribe of man, today we'd have another fairytale about a global flood scratched on stones by the ancient residents of New Orleans.

Answer 2

Floods send by Gods to destroy civilization can also be found in Hinduism, Islam, read , Puranas and Epic of Gilgamesh Perhaps there was a great flood that destroyed civilizations.

In Hinduism an avatar (reincarnation) Vishnu - a fish called Matsya, warned Manu of a terrible flood that would kill all living things. He had taken care of the fish, Manu was to build a boat, to build a boat. And when the floods came the fish towed the ship to safety. Check the site below, you will get all the myths .

Answer 3

Yes, In the story of Gilgamesh. Written long before Christianity even had the first glimmer of darkening the world.

The story is brief and doesn't imply the whole world but rather a large area. Gilgamesh quickly moves on to the true story, his search for immortality.

This is the one story based slightly on fact. There was a great flood in Europe that killed around a thousand people, it was nothing ordinary it just happened about a hundred years before Gilgamesh was written and then the story sort of made it sound much bigger then it actually was. For a note of comparison, the flooding in India kills around 20,000 every year.

Answer 4

The Old testament actually took that Myth from the Sumerian texts from about 5000 BC. It may well correspond to an actual event that took place when a large Ice Dam in the Great Lakes region that broke and caused the world oceans to rise about 50 ft rather rapidly. Note: Most Humans did then and now live very close to the coast lines of the world, and that is why so many would be affected by such a cataclysm.

Answer 5

Absolutely. The Babylonian and Hebrew stories found in Genesis are almost certainly derived from the Epic of Gilgamesh, a Mesopotamian myth dating (I think) from seventeenth century BE. The two stories simply have too much in common to deny a connection. Both have a pious hero warned by the gods to build a great ship and load it with his family and selected animals. Both have the ship eventually landing on the mountains of Armenia, and both have a divine oath not to send another flood.

Answer 6

In Hindu mythology yes. There is also a great boat built in that similar to noahs ark , the people of which are saved for after the cleansing.
More importantly the legend of Atlantis is also based on a great flood

Answer 7

Yes, I forget the number exactly, but there are about 57 I think flood stories similar to the one in Genesis found through the world.

Answer 8

Plato's story of Atlantis has defintie parralels. I have heard that some North American Indian tribes have a tale that sound a whole lot like the Noah story. They were in Canada, possibly Inuit or another Arctic people. I dont remember much about it. A man, his family, a boat, some animals, a flood, and being the sole survivors.

Answer 9

Most cultures have a flood myth. Many tell of a man who survives in a boat, some talk of how a god picks them up and sets them on a cloud, you name it. I know several Middle Eastern Cultures tell of it, and I think there is an Indian myth, but I can't tell for sure which cultures have that particular myth.

Answer 10

Mythology was fun to read about in school. Why are you hung up on the floods? It's all about Jesus now.

Answer 11

Like many before me have said most world cultures have a myth about a great flood. Here is a website you can look at these for yourself:

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html