Almost every people has a story of a great flood. These are the pages where I follow one story at a time, grouped by region.
The Near East
I start in the Near East, with the Chaldean deluge, Gilgamesh, Noah and Nuh, and the Vara of Yima.
Berossus's Xisuthros, warned by Cronos to build a vessel.
The king of Uruk who brought knowledge from before the flood.
Noah and his house go into the ark.
The eight people who survived the flood.
Where the ark came to rest.
Noah's ship of gopher wood and its echoes.
The flood that will overwhelm all but the righteous.
Nuh warns his people for 950 years.
The Persian shelter against the evil winter.
Europe and Asia
These are the flood stories of Greece, India and the sinking cities of Asia.
Poseidon makes the river Erymanthos flood the land.
Manu, the fish and the Hindu flood.
Yingzhou, the Chinese city of immortals.
The flood of the Cham people of Southeast Asia.
The Americas
The peoples of the Americas have their own floods. I follow the Aztec, Maya, Cherokee, Modoc, Ojibwe and Guarani stories.
The Aztec water goddess who brought the flood.
The hero who came to Chiapas after a great flood.
The raft that saves one family.
Kumush and the flood.
The man who survived the flood the Creator sent.
The flood in Mbya-Guarani tradition.
Africa and Oceania
The last group comes from Africa and the Pacific, with the ark of Nuu and the sinking of Hiva.
Unkulunkulu warns the people, who climb the Drakensberg.
Olorun sends the great flood.
The great fish and the water that burst from the ground.
The Hawaiian Nuu, told by the gods to build an ark.
Hiva, the ancestral homeland.
The earthquakes that sank Hiva.
Aboriginal memories of a coast where the Great Barrier Reef now stands.
