A flood myth or a deluge myth is a myth in which a great flood, usually sent by a deity or deities, destroys civilization, often in an act of divine retribution...

Flood myths are common across a wide range of cultures, extending back into Bronze Age and Neolithic prehistory. These accounts depict a flood, sometimes...

The Gilgamesh flood myth is a flood myth in the Epic of Gilgamesh. It is one of three Mesopotamian Flood Myths alongside the one including in the Eridu...

The Genesis flood narrative (chapters 6–9 of the Book of Genesis) is a Hebrew flood myth. It tells of God's decision to return the universe to its pre-creation...

Eridu Genesis, also called the Sumerian Creation Myth, Sumerian Flood Story and the Sumerian Deluge Myth, offers a description of the story surrounding...

though often with similar or even contradictory details. Like most flood myths, these stories often involve themes of divine retribution, the savior...

The Great Flood of Gun-Yu, also known as the Gun-Yu myth, was a major flood in ancient China that allegedly continued for at least two generations, which...

Many Mesoamerican flood myths have been documented in written form or passed down through in oral tradition. Some clearly have Torah influences, but others...

Sumerian flood myth Eridu Genesis, Enlil rewards Ziusudra with immortality for having survived the flood and, in the Babylonian flood myth, Enlil is...

statue, or sometimes tortoise statue. A less widespread flood myth involves the goddess Magu: this myth involves the cyclic rise and fall of the ocean level...

Indian and Greek flood-myths also exist, although there is little evidence that they were derived from the Mesopotamian flood-myth that underlies the...

List of floods#Oceania Australia: Floods in Australia United States: Lists of floods in the United States A flood myth or a deluge myth is a myth in which...

mother as Clymene, Hesione, or Pronoia. He is closely connected with a flood myth in Greek mythology. According to folk etymology, Deucalion's name comes...

recurring myths such as ascending a mountain, the axis mundi, myths of combat, descent into the Underworld, accounts of a dying-and-rising god, a flood myth, stories...

The Finnish flood myth is recorded in the Kalevala rune entitled Haava (The Wound, section 8). Väinämöinen attempts a heroic feat that results in a gushing...

a greate deluge, as has been handed down many times in the different flood myths of mankind. Probably the relic of a natural catastrophe (melting of glacial...

the Earth in accordance with a literal belief in the Genesis flood narrative, the flood myth in the Hebrew Bible. In the early 19th century, diluvial geologists...

free dictionary. Great Flood is a phrase used to describe the central event in any catastrophic flood. Some may be of the flood myth, whether historically...

animals from a global deluge. The story in Genesis is based on earlier flood myths originating in Mesopotamia, and is repeated, with variations, in the...

Comparative mythology is the comparison of myths from different cultures in an attempt to identify shared themes and characteristics. Comparative mythology...

and refute the existence of the flood, while the theory that it is the basis of later flood myths is not proven. Flooding of this area scattered peoples...

southern Iraq, who, according to the Gilgamesh flood myth, one of several similar narratives, survived the Flood by making and occupying a boat. He is called...

one of several mythic characters who are protagonists of Near Eastern flood myths, including Atrahasis, Utnapishtim and the biblical Noah. Although each...

sometimes also the name of a king of the city, legendary survivor of the Flood, and supposed author of the Instructions of Shuruppak". The earliest excavated...

after an earthquake. The flood is suggested [by whom?] to possibly be the disaster that gave rise to the Gun-Yu flood myth,[citation needed] which preceded...

and Indian myth guard Hell with the help of two four-eyed dogs. Oettinger, when talking about how the story of Yima was originally a flood myth, and how...

and how to live a good life. The story of Utnapishtim, the hero of the flood myth, can also be found in the Babylonian epic of Atra-Hasis. The Standard...

Eco (The Island of the Day Before) Jules Verne (The Mysterious Island) Flood myth Lost city Lost world Past sea level Phantom island Vanishing island Terra...

Ireland, arriving before the Biblical flood. The tale may have been an attempt to Christianize an earlier pagan myth. According to the Lebor Gabála, Cessair...

usage of the term "myth" that refers to a belief that is not true. Instead, the veracity of a myth is not a defining criterion. Myths are often endorsed...