Great Flood

A Babylonian flood element in the Hebrew narrative, he says, tells nothing of the Antediluvian races, whereas the Atlantean story does.

Chalchihuitlicue, in particular, precipitates a flood, and a man and a woman survive.

South American floods follow.

Another flood has a deity seize fishes, mould their hinder parts, change their heads, and turn them into dogs.

The Mixtec deer-gods of south-western Mexico have more sons and daughters, and then a flood in which many perished.

His summary of the American traditions is that they point to a later date for the Antilian catastrophe than for the Atlantean one, that flood and upheaval myths are widespread, that a great hill like the hill of Poseidon's temple is prominent, and that culture-heroes arrive from the east, from an oceanic land.

A mighty flood and a thick resinous rain fall.

Persepolis is raised because of seasonal floods, and Palenque had no such risk.

Some authorities read the sign as rain or flood.

On Stela M at Copan the face bears the symbols of water and flood.

Another term, bulcahal, haycahol, or haycahil, is a universal earthquake and flood which destroyed the world.

The serpent or water-goddess appears in all three manuscripts: an old woman with a brown-stained body and claws for feet, a knotted serpent on her head, pouring a flood from a great inverted vase.

In the Dresden Codex, page 74, where something resembling a flood is represented, she wears the cross-bones of the death-god.

Guabancex's ministers, Guatauva and Coatrischie, gathered the waters in the valleys before the floods that devastated the islands.

Floods and submerged islands in Druidical legend, and one myth in which Osiris was drowned, close the circle.

The Peruvian flood has a man whose llama will not eat, and who is told that in five days the sea will engulf the earth.

The Canaris Indians of Canaribamba, in Quito, tell of twin brothers who fled to a mountain called Huacaquan, which rose as the flood rose.

Pariacaca, the demi-god from the egg, came like Poseidon to a hill-country where he was insulted, and he destroyed the village with a flood.

Berosus has Cronus warn Sisuthrus that on the fifteenth day of the month Desius a flood will destroy mankind.

Greek floods have already been alluded to.

The assumption that Egypt has no Flood tradition is, he says, scarcely correct, because Plutarch, Plato, and Diodorus Siculus all speak of Osiris as connected in some manner with a deluge.

Warehouses stand behind solid walls raised above any flood from the interior or any tide.

I read Paschal Beverly Randolph's Pre-Adamite Man for the claims a later writer can set beside Plato, Bunsen, and the flood dates used by Tomas, Spence, and Armond.

A table of his own puts civilized nations in eastern Asia at 35,000 B.C., a flood in Asia and part of Europe at 21,000 B.C., and Nimrod, Atlantis, and Babylon at 16,000 B.C.

Three flood dates on one page.

Noah's Flood, one account, B.C.

His own flood arithmetic, p.

The greatest recent heat at the poles was not less than 22,000 years ago, and the melting of the ice on that occasion may have caused Noah's Flood, which he says has no date inside the truly historical and monumental periods.

He also says there are distinct accounts of two Oriental floods, the first of which could not have taken place less than 42,200 years ago.

Since the Flood, at the very lowest Bunsenian calculation, 11,812 years must have elapsed.

The flood in Asia and part of Europe, 21,000.

109, where he sets other people's eras in a column and then states Plato and the floods in his own sentences.

One account tells us that Noah's Flood took place, B.

The melting of the ice on that occasion may have been the cause of Noah's Flood.

He says that flood has not a date within the truly historical and monumental periods, and that those periods carry us first to Menes, and second to nearly, or quite, double that length of time.

But we have distinct accounts of two Oriental floods; the first of which could not have taken place less than forty-two thousand two hundred years ago!

Then the line I would copy for the flood interval.

Since the Flood, years must have elapsed to the number of, at the very lowest, Bunsenian calculation 11,812.

The prose around the table says the history of the world is post-diluvian and ante-diluvian, and the barrier that divides them is the last of the so-called floods.

He asks, if there were not more floods than one, whence the American legends.

117 (poles at 10,114 and 22,000, a first Oriental flood at 42,200, Menes at 6,000 years ago, 11,812 years since the Flood), p.

A lowest Bunsenian count of 11,812 years since the Flood (p.

A first Oriental flood not less than 42,200 years ago (p.

A flood in Asia and part of Europe at 21,000 B.C., and a latest possible deluge twelve to fourteen thousand years ago (p.

Randolph leaves the 9,000 years uncomputed, and prints other flood years beside it.

First Oriental flood, 42,200 years ago.

Bunsenian years since the Flood, 11,812.

The later chapters turn the biblical flood into a third purge, an Asian one, after Lemuria and Atlantis, and then gather the remainders into four peoples: the Árias, the Hindus, the Egyptians, and the Israelites.

What he claims, on the pages I use: an advanced civilization in Atlantis around 10,000 BC, a flood he figures at about 9600 BC, a Sphinx of at least 10,000 years on water weathering, drowned stone at Yonaguni, in the Gulf of Cambay, and off Cuba, and a worldwide list of Atlas names.

He says Plato figured the flood at approximately 9600 BC, and that Plato said the account is true (file p.

Flood names he prints.

Peoples on his flood list.

The fall and the flood, whether or not physical, likely happened within a person.

The flood paragraph is his.

The Noah flood myth from the bible was attributed to Zisudra and Atrahasis in Sumerian/Mesopotamian culture three thousand years earlier.

In Aztec mythology only Coxcoxtli and his wife Xochiquetzal were forewarned of the flood by God and survived by building a huge boat.

The Mechoacanesecs of Central America say Tezpi built a large boat, loaded it with animals, grains, seeds, and escaped the flood with his wife and children.

Alford, as Dubay prints him, calls the Near Eastern flood a great time divider.

He lists flood myths from the Inuit of Alaska to the Canarians of Ecuador, from the Tupinamba of Brazil and the Araucnaians of Chile to the Pehuenche and Yamana of Tierra del Fuego, from the Sumerians and early Mesopotamians to the Hopi, Iroquois, and Sioux.

He asks whether the flood is a story, a myth with a metaphorical meaning, or a literal account of global flooding.

He says the possibility of a literal flood is not to be scoffed at, and that perhaps only the more specific elements of the story are metaphorical.

He even said when the flood occurred figuring approximately 9600 BC.

Nearly 600 cultures around the world speak about a world wide flood caused by angry gods that all but wiped out this advanced civilization.

He says that land was described as too fair and beautiful to be left willingly, and that it was lost under the sea after a great flood.

The natives of Mindanao are the Atas, with the same flood myth, claiming descent from light-skinned invaders who intermarried with the aboriginals.

In the names of file page 291: Pawnee sky god Atius, and a flood myth.

Atlan, a Venezuelan village of the Paria, a prosperous Atlantic island of wealthy seafarers from which they escaped the flood.

The great flood Atemoztli.

Choctaw Atchafalaya, "Long River," whose flood myth he says matches.

209, as Dubay prints him: in a West African flood, Obatala is the Yoruba Atlas.

In other words the "fall" and the "flood" whether or not they happened physically, likely happened within an individual or on a spiritual level.

288 (Yonaguni 8000 BC, Cambay about 7500 BC, Cuba 2,200 feet, 200 Mediterranean cities, and the flood list), file p.

Around 10,000 BC for the civilization, and approximately 9600 BC for the flood, both stated as Plato's (file p.

He defends a literal flood on file p.

297 he says the fall, the flood, and Atlantis likely happened within a person, whether or not they were also a physical island and a physical flood.

Dubay's 9600 is a flood year stated as Plato's figure.

His own year for that account is around 10,000 BC, and his flood year is approximately 9600 BC (file p.

Names and floods

I read The Nag Hammadi Library in English for the claims a later writer can set beside the flood stories and the other books on this site.

What it does give is a place, a year, a count of the books, and two flood tellings, one in the Apocryphon of John and one in the Apocalypse of Adam.

In the Apocryphon of John the chief archon plans a flood.

A flood that is not Moses's ark.

In the Apocryphon of John the chief archon plans a flood upon the work of man.

This time he planned to bring a flood upon the work of man.

The sentence that names the Greek flood hero is set off with dashes in the print, so I give the name in his words and leave the dashes out of the quotation marks.

The Gospel of the Egyptians does use a flood as an example of the end of an aeon, beside a conflagration and a judgment of the archons.

It does not give the flood a year.

In the Apocryphon of John the chief archon brings a flood, Noah is warned, and the immovable race hides in a luminous cloud.

The flood lines in this review are the ones in the 1988 English volume, on pp.

Ragozin, The Story of Chaldea: a flood tablet with a ship and a mountain.

The flood and the luminous cloud.

Vatican Codex A-3738: four past eras, 4,008 years (flood), 4,010 (hurricanes), 4,801 (fires), 5,042 (starvation), total 17,861.

The flood texts he lines up include Ovid, a Twelfth Dynasty papyrus in the Hermitage which tells of an Island of the Serpent, the epic of Gilgamesh, and the Book of Enoch on a fire in the west and a great sea toward the west.

First cycle, 4,008 years, ended in a flood.

Utnapishtim, in the Sumerian tablets of Gilgamesh, survives a vast flood with his family in an ark, and saves people, animals, and birds.

A flood tale of the Bird-Men.

The gods fear the flood and climb into the heaven of Anu.

A flood story of Coyote.

The Sumerian king list, in his use of it, marks a great span for the first dynasty after the Flood.

He argues that Atlantean teachers hid books and instruments where a flood would not take them, and that a few of those stores may still be found.

Gilgamesh engraving the story of the flood on stone before the disaster.

Ammianus Marcellinus: underground passages built by people who foresaw a flood.

It is apparent from these discoveries that violent geological upheavals occurred in the Atlantic basin about 10,000 B.C., the date of the proverbial 'Great Flood'.

A flood and a volcanic outbreak can do the same work faster.

The Atlanteans left underground museums and libraries before the flood.

I read Mariana Giovino, The Assyrian Sacred Tree: A History of Interpretations, for the claims a later writer can set beside the flood stories, the Garden of Eden, and the other books on this site.

Seven apkallu, or sages, lived before the Flood in a Babylonian tradition she reports.

She does not give a year for that Flood.

Metal trees, and a Flood tradition she reports.

On another page she reports that seven apkallu, or sages, lived before the Flood, and that a seventh-century plaque from Aššur shows the same bird-headed, bucket-holding type as the Nimrud reliefs (p.

She gives no year for that Flood, and she does not name Noah.

According to Babylonian tradition, seven apkallu (or sages) lived before the Flood.

She does not, on this page, give the Flood a year, a mountain, or a ship.

The Flood enters once, as the time before which seven apkallu lived, and the bird-headed genie with bucket and cone is the figure she is identifying, on a seventh-century plaque from Aššur as on the Nimrud walls.

The apkallu, seven sages who lived before the Flood, matched to the bird-headed figures.

The Flood enters as the Babylonian tradition that seven apkallu lived before it (p.

Ragozin, The Story of Chaldea: a nineteenth-century reading of Chaldea, with a flood tablet, a ship, and a mountain.

Giovino's Flood is one clause, seven sages before it, on p.

I read The Convoluted Universe, Book One for the claims a later writer can set beside Plato, the flood stories, and the other Atlantis books.

Phil says a flood legend can be that sinking seen from the land.

The flood legends.

Phil says much of the flood tradition has come through unchanged and is quite accurate, though not all of it.

The sinking of Atlantis would appear to be a flood if you were standing on the land.

The flood section on p.

The sinking of Atlantis would appear to be a flood if viewed from the perspective of being on the land itself.

The next sentence, still answering whether the flood and the sinking were the same event, says this flooding was merely the lowering or sinking of the lands.

246 (the sinking seen as a flood), and p.

Phil says that sinking would look like a flood from the land (p.

Ragozin's The Story of Chaldea: a flood tablet with a ship and a mountain.

Cannon's Phil says the sinking of Atlantis would look like a flood from the land.

The speaker marked P, and named Phil in the flood section, on pp.

I read Galactic Federations, Councils & Secret Space Programs for the claims a later writer can set beside Plato, the flood tablets, and the Antarctic readings of Atlantis.

Courtney Brown, was a large spacecraft, mostly submerged at the time of the flood.

Courtney Brown of the Farsight Institute: the ark was a very large high-tech structure, a spaceship mostly submerged underwater at the time of the flood (file p.

For the flood hero he names beside Noah, see the Epic of Gilgamesh, tablet I and Zénaïde A.

Brown says there was a great flood, an ark filled with animals, a Noah, and a subject Noah thought was God, and that the story then diverges from the ancient texts.

The sentence I would set beside the flood tablets is the one about the hull.

The ark itself was, in fact, a very large high-tech structure, a spaceship that was mostly submerged underwater at the time of the flood.

Ragozin's The Story of Chaldea: the flood tablet and Xisuthros.

I read James Jackson Jarves's History of the Hawaiian Islands for the traditions a later writer can set beside the flood stories and the migration claims.

The findings I would carry are in the opening chapters: where the people came from, the flood of Hinalii, and the genealogies.

A flood called Kaiakahinalii, the great deluge of Hinalii, overflowed all the land except the summit of Mauna Kea.

The flood.

The flood is called Kaiakahinalii, the great deluge of Hinalii (p.

For other flood narratives, see Great Flood Stories.

Jarves then gives the flood.

A tradition of the flood likewise exists, which states that all the land, except the summit of Mauna Kea, was overflowed by copious rains and risings of the waters.

This flood is called Kaiakahinalii, the great deluge of Hinalii.

The work of comparison is to keep Kaiakahinalii, which he reports as a tradition of the flood, apart from Kana wading the channel, which he reports as a bard's imagination.

Great Flood Stories: other flood narratives.

Jarves's flood has a mountain and a vessel, and no birds.

Jarves compares the Hawaiian chaos and the flood with Hebrew tradition, and he does not equate the laau with the ark by a measurement.

Flood Kaiakahinalii, all the land except Mauna Kea, a laau of equal height, length, and breadth, resting on Mauna Kea (p.

Ragozin's The Story of Chaldea for the claims a later writer can set beside Genesis, Berosus, and the flood tablet.

What she does place is Shumir and Accad, the kings she is willing to date, and two flood traditions: the years in Berosus, and the eleventh tablet of the epic whose hero she calls Izdubar.

The Flood, as she reads it, may not have been absolutely universal.

The Flood and the people already in the land.

She says they belonged to none of the races classed in the Bible as descended from Noah, and probably to one far older, which had not been included in the Flood.

She then says it is pretty generally understood that the Flood may not have been absolutely universal, but may have extended over the countries which the Hebrews knew (p.

Wind, flood, and storm reign six days and seven nights.

For the Hebrew flood stories already on this site, see Great Flood Stories.

"They" are descendants of Noah, long after the Flood.

One thing appears clear: they belonged to none of the races classed in the Bible as descended from Noah, but probably to one far older, which had not been included in the Flood.

The next sentence is the one I would set beside any writer who treats Noah's flood as the drowning of the whole earth.

the Flood may not have been absolutely universal, but have extended over the countries which the Hebrews knew, which made their world

She dates the poem, not the flood inside it.

The Anunnaki bring floods from the depths.

For six days and seven nights wind, flood and storm reigned supreme

129 (a people older than Noah's descent, and a flood that may not have been universal), p.

129 the flood may not have been absolutely universal.

315 to 317 the tablet narrates the flood at Surippak and Mount Nizir and gives no year.

Her flood text is the eleventh tablet, not the first.

Great Flood Stories: other flood narratives.

Flood not necessarily universal, and a people in Shinar older than Noah's descent (p.

The Peruvian Pariacaca, who came to a hilly country, was reviled, sent a flood, and irrigated the maize of Choque Suso on condition she accept him, then turned her into a statue.

For the Welsh of the twelfth century, Spence says, that lake stood for the flood.

The American summary, as his own contents list it, sets Plato beside Aztec stories of cataclysm, flood myths from Peru and Brazil, Brinton on the American deluge, a Mixtec legend, further Mexican myths, Tlaloc beside Poseidon, divine visitors among the Toltecs, and Quetzalcoatl as a culture-bringer from the west, compared with Atlas.

They say he will flood the world.

This page follows only these people and the flood.

Then she gives him the name, and the flood.

They declare that their God, whom they name Jehovah, is weary of the sins of the world and intends to submerge all creation in a vast flood and wipe mankind from the face of the earth.

So the flood is a threat that people can avoid.

They told him a great flood was about to fall on the city, and he laughed.

She ends with the words "for this we have been brought from the other side of the flood".

Then he floods the world when the warning is wasted.

This is the quote on my page Flood Stories from Around the World, from George Smith's 1873 translation of the tablet.

On the same Flood Stories page I note that the clean animals come aboard in sevens.

For the Bible chapter, see Flood Stories from Around the World.

The line below is from Julius Eggeling's translation, as I quote it on the Flood Stories page.

A second page asks whether Noah knew about the flood long before it came, which is close to the strangers who had "known of the coming destruction for many years".

The Oahspe tells of a flood in the arc of Noe.

I did not look for every flood story on this site.

It makes the flood a threat that can be avoided, and the book says it was wasted.

In my page on the flood stories, Ziusudra is settled in Dilmun, a paradise land in the east.

On this site: Flood Stories from Around the World, The Chaldean Account of the Deluge, Who Was Vaivasvata Manu?, Prophet Nuh in the Quran, Noe (I'hin Prophet), Book of Aph, Son of Jehovih, The Fall of Atlantis, The Oera Linda Book Reviewed and Atlantean Wars.

Flood Stories from Around the World: the flood stories I compare here.

Atlantis in the Holy Bible: Genesis and the Flood.

Read it as a sermon about decadence that happens to contain a flood, a court, and a marriage plot.

After the flood, the survivors sight a silent tropical coast: blue-white mountains, a wall of forest, the smell of flowers, no inhabitants.

Nay, a new world, my lord … For this we have been brought from the other side of the flood.

They declare that their God, whom they name Jehovah, is weary of the sins of the world and intends to submerge all creation in a vast flood and wipe mankind from the face of the earth.

This is said to Signar, and it is what the monotheists declare about the flood.

Siton says this after the flood.

Atlantis in the Holy Bible: Genesis and the Flood.

Jehovah and the flood warners in The Romance of Atlantis: the foreigners who preach one God, warn of a flood and have a ship ready.