Why do Most Cultures Have Flood Myths and Stories?

Flood Myths go Global

Flood myths have been around probably since man first started oral traditions. The most well known in Western culture is the story of Noah's flood from the Bible but there are many other stories. The Sumerians ... [wrote] down their flood myths with the story of Gilgamesh ....

In Europe Plato wrote of the city of Atlantis that swallowed up by the sea. It is said he got his story from the ancient Egyptians. This isn't to say that Europe did not have any original flood myths, as they did. The Arcadians, Samothrace, ancient Germans, Scandinavians, Celtic, Welsh, Lithuanian, Transylvanian, and Turkish peoples all had various forms of flood myths popping up in their culture.

Updated on January 25, 2013

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Behind the Great Wave at Kanagawa

In Asia the Vogul, Samoyeds, Yenisey-Ostyak, Kamchadale, Ataic, Tuvinian, Mongolian, Sagaiye, Buryat, Bhil, Kamar, Assam, Tamil, Lepcha, Tibetian, Singpho, Lushai, Lisu. Lolo, Jino, Karen, Chingpa, Chinese, Korean, Munda, Santal, Ho, Banar, Kammu, Zhuang, Sui, Shan, Tsuwo, Bunun, Ami, Benua-Jakun, Kelantan, Ifugao, Atá, Mandaya, Tinguian, Batak, Nias, Engano, Dusun, Dyak, Ot-Danom, Toradja, Alfoor, Rotti, and Nage all had thier different versions of flood myths.

In Africa flood myths can be seen in the cultures of the Cameroon, Masai, Komililo Nandi, Kwaya, Pygmy, Ababua, Kikuyu, Bakongo, Basonge, Bena-Lulua, Yoruba, Ekoi, Efik-Ibibio, and Mandingo.

In Australia the Aboriginals of each region seemed to have a different flood myth and hundreds of tribes in the Americas each had their own wild stories of flooding as well. These stories often involved animals, sometimes rescuing people, sometimes riding the storm out with boats. In our current modern day world most of the major religions still have at least one flood myth among their texts.

The Common Threads

Although all the flood myths vary, sometimes to large degrees, many of them have some thread of commonality. Often these stories are told about one human character or one human family. Animals are involved in many of these stories and there is almost always a moral, with the flood coming only after the human race has committed some wrong doing.

Theories about their Origin

It's long been noted that flood myths are one of a handful of stories that seem to be common in almost every culture.

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One of the most interesting theories is that all these stories could have started out as one story that really happened sometime during the end of the last ice age when glaciers would have been melting rapidly making ocean waters rise and swallowing whole civilizations near the coasts.

....It is an intriguing idea.

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Taken from: http://theophanes.hubpages.com/hub/Some-Speculations-on-the-Commonality-of-Flood-Myths

[The AMAIC would consider the myth of Deucalion to be

a later Greek appropriation of the original biblical story]

Taken from: http://myths.e2bn.org/mythsandlegends/userstory20383-noah-and-deucalion.html



Noah and Deucalion

A myth submitted to the site by Kyle

Noah and Deucalion Compare/Contrast When people say “the great flood” most people think of Noah and the ark with all the pairs of animals, but there are yet others, in Greek mythology Zeus created a flood to destroy the human race. Noah and Deucalion, survivor of the Greek flood, are similar in the ways that they are both are religious to their god and were in the great flood ; however they are different in the ways that they are in different religions and Noah had built a boat and Deucalion did not. Noah and Deucalion both were in the great flood because for Noah, he was warned, ordered to make a really big boat called an ark and bring two of all the animals in the world to survive the flood. In the bible on Genesis 5:32-10:1 it says: Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence. God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high. Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit high all around. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks. I am going to bring floodwater on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish. (Genesis 5:32-10:1) But for Deucalion, Zeus had thought that the human race was a failure, so he asked Poseidon to flood the earth. the only people left was Deucalion and his wife on a high mountain, Zeus pitied them and told Poseidon to recede the water, making them the only people on earth. Noah was a great follower of god and would always stick to the laws the way the meant, for this God gave the human race a chance by letting Noah and his family try to survive the flood. Deucalion had always trusted his gods and worship them ever since he was a little boy, unlike the others who had been fighting with each other, he had he had living a peaceful life in his cottage at the bottom of the mountain. Noah had to build an ark to survive the flood and it took a long time, for Deucalion him and his wife were at the top of a very tall mountain collecting fruit from a tree when the flood came but stopped at the top of the mountain. The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high. Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit high all around. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks. (Genesis 5:32-10:1) Noah, as most people know, is from the bible, where there is one god and one god only, for Deucalion, who is from Greek mythology, has multiple gods Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, and hundreds more, this means that this is most likely to be the same story but from a different perspective. Both Noah and Deucalion both have their differences, Noah in a boat and different religion but they have way more similarities, both were in the flood and survived and they both were religious to their god(s).

Wallace Johnson, Fatima, the Flood

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Whilst we greatly admired the writings and lectures of Wal, and his knack for being able to show how Our Lady had intervened throughout modern history to forestall some new diabolical revolution (e.g. Our Lady of Fatima in 1917 against Bolshevik Communism), we did consider that his one-time pre-occupation with conspiracies and the Illuminati could tend to deflate, rather than to uplift, the faithful. This prompted Frits Albers once to exclaim: “For God’s sake, Wal, give people some hope!”

We, as Fatima people, appreciated that (13^th July, 1917) whilst ‘the outlook [is indeed] … gloomy …. Many will be martyred, the Holy Father will have much to suffer; several nations will be wiped out’, however ‘there is a ray of hope: my Immaculate Heart will finally triumph.' We knew that, despite everything, we were on the winning aside, that the head of our infernal foe had already been irrevocably crushed (Genesis 3:15).

And apparently it is quite hard to function properly with a crushed head!

Whether from AMAIC promptings, or otherwise, Wal, latterly, did become more positive.

 

The Genesis Flood

 

 

 

Uniquely, Wallace, a global floodist, had - unlike other ‘Creationists’ of the same biblical interpretation - allowed for a verifiable antediluvian archaeology to co-exist alongside the presumed global Flood. He had appreciated (rightly, we think) that Mesopotamian archaeology, for instance, was divided by the Flood into antediluvian and postdiluvian phases. But he still, despite this, upheld (wrongly, we think) a global Genesis Flood.