What versions of the Great Flood do you know?

Question

They say the the story of Noah's Ark (the Biblical version) is also told in many other cultures. Do any of you have any history on the other versions of this event?

Answer 1

The one where God breaks one of his own Commandments and kills people.

Answer 2

According to the Bible, the Earth was destroyed by a Great Flood when "All the fountains of the great deep burst open and the floodgates of the sky were opened and the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights." (Gen 7; 11, 12) This passage describes the sea level rising up at the same time torrents of rain fell from the sky. mankind was destroyed by a Great Flood. Noah and his family built a huge ship, an ark, out of wood sealed with pitch. They were saved when "the flood came upon the earth for forty days; and the water increased and lifted up the ark, so that it rose above the earth and the water prevailed and increased greatly upon the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water. And the water prevailed more and more upon the earth, so that all the high mountains everywhere under the heavens were covered." (Gen 7; 17-19). Noah floated in the ark for approximately 370 days. I only found this version.

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Answer 3

In addition to the one in the Epic of Gilgamesh, there is the story of Deucalion (found in Greek and Roman texts) as well as the version preserved by the Hopi Indians of the American Southwest which actually has the flood story being the end of the Third World humanity has resided in with us currently living in the Fourth.

Answer 4

Happy and the Plums from Asia.

There was a young boy named Happy. His father died when he was young. They sold the fishing boat and bought what food they could. Happies mom worked as a maid for a local wealty family. When he was older the moms boss gave happy a pair of her sons old shoes so he could go to school. Everyday on his way to school Happy passed by the temple with two stone lions out front. The kids at school teased Happy cause he was poor and they said he ate rice everyday. One day after school Happy came home to find that his mother had been given a bowl of plums by the boss lady which was good cause he does eat rice everyday. Mom tells him to eat his rice first.

Then a knock on the door, an old homeless woman begging for food, mom lets her in and gives her a bowl of rice. The old woman quickly eats all the plums leaving only the pits. Mom warns Happy to not be angry. The old woman thanks them for thier generosity and tells them to keep the plum pits, they'll turn thier life around and that there will be a great flood when the lions eyes turn red.

Happy's mum gets sick and losses her job, they have no food to eat and doubt the old womans predictions. Starving happy knaws on a plum pit, it cracks open and has a pearl inside, they all do. Thinking they will be robbed they sell only a few pearls and hide the rest. They keep it low key to not arouse suspicion.

The emperor orders the temple painted. After the artist is done he has some red paint left so he paints the statue eyes red. Happy see's this the next day and runs to tell his mom. Fearing the flood they trade a pearl for a boat and load it with stuff,

sailing on thier boat they find a hill top above the water with a farm and a plum tree. happily ever after.

Answer 5

The Sumerian tale of Ziusudra, dated to the 17th century BC.

The Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh.

The Babylonian Atrahasis Epic

Greek: the Ogygian Deluge, and the flood of Deucalion ended the First Brazen Age.

Germanic: In Norse mythology, Bergelmir was a son of Thrudgelmir. He and his wife were the only frost giants to survive the deluge of Bergelmir's grandfather's (Ymir) blood, when Odin and his brothers (Vili and Ve) butchered him. They crawled into a hollow tree trunk and survived, then founded a new race of frost giants.

Irish: According to the apocryphal history of Ireland Lebor Gabála Érenn, the first inhabitants of Ireland led by Noah's granddaughter Cessair were all except one wiped out by a flood 40 days after reaching the island. Later, after Partholon's and Nemed's people reached the island, another flood rose and killed all but thirty of the inhabitants, who scattered across the world.

The Aztecs, Incans, Mayans, Hopi, Caddo, Meminomee, and M'ikmaq tribes all have a flood myth.

There are also Chinese, Indian, Polynesian, and Indonesian flood myths.

Answer 6

I have a friend who believes that Noah's flood was only a local event but to the people of that day, they believed it was the "whole world." We have never been able to agree on this because that is NOT what the Word of God says. It was indeed a planet wide flood. And if I am not mistaken, I believe that fish fossils have been found on the highest mountains of the world.

Answer 7

The Epic of Gilgamesh is the most well-known. There are several Native American flood stories, and I believe that the Incan creation myth involves a flood, but I may be mistaken.

Answer 8

There are several parts of the story that are included in other traditions.

Sumerian, Egyptian, Babylonian...

Good book on OT stories and the stories they appear to have come from -

101 Myths of the Bible by Gary Greenberg

Answer 9

Gilgamesh is often mentioned. In any event, the story is fiction: we know from a dozen completely independent sources of evidence that no such thing ever happened.

Answer 10

I watched the uncensored, extended, director's cut anniversary edition on DVD. Far better than the original. Much more fire, a little less water. Kind of like Terminator meets Das Boot.

Answer 11

there are actually quite a few native american stories about this that are really neat....but i took that class last semester so i dont have the book that had the stories in it.