1. The Story of the Flood of the Bhils
Long ago, the whole world was under water and only two mountains were exposed. One was called Pawandungar and the other Mataphen. These two mountains rose as the flood waters rose, and on the higher one there was a bamboo basket, and when God saw this basket he went up to it and asked, "Who are you?"
Inside it replied, "We are the Balahis, brother and sister." They turned to look at each other as they spoke to God, and God said, "Look at each other and say again who are you?" They looked at each other and said, "We are man and wife." There are two ways to end the story, one says that they both spit on the ground and out of their saliva another man was born. The other says that they both pinched a bit of sweaty mud together, and from it another man was formed.
2. The Huichol People of Central America
A man found that the tree he had cut down had grown back overnight. He peeks in and realizes that it was his old grandmother, Nakawe, who did it. She tells him that soon there will be a flood that will destroy the world. She instructs him to build a chest out of the trees and fill it with grain, beans and fire tools, as well as five pieces of pressed roots for fuel, and to take a black bitch with him.
The chest floated in the flood for five years. When the flood waters receded the chest landed on a hill. The man went back to work as he had done before the flood. Every day when he returned to the cave where he lived, he found that someone had prepared tortillas for him.
He snooped around and realized it was the bitch who had done it. She took off her skin and turned into a woman to grind grain for him. He threw her skin into the fire, whereupon she howled with grief. He bathed her in nixtamal water, and the two of them repopulated the human race.
3. The Atrahasis Epic
The second clay tablet of the Flood legend that Smith found at Kuyunkik, known historically as the Atrahasis Epic, is also a rare and heterogeneous text. The main character in this text is called Atrahasis or "the Great Wise One." The poem states that before man was created, the gods labored like man. Since the gods did not want to work, they created humans out of clay and the flesh and blood of a slain god instead.
But the human population grew so fast and made so much noise that the gods could not sleep. The gods unleashed plagues, sent droughts, famine and soil salinity, all of which failed to solve the problem. Finally, they decided to unleash a flood to destroy humanity. The plan was opposed by Enki, the god of hell, who had Atrahasis build an ark and escape the havoc.
Flood Atrahasis offered sacrifices to the gods, who came to eat. In the new world after the flood, the gods solved the problem of overpopulation by creating barren and forbidden women, as well as sending out a demon named Pasitu who specialized in taking babies from their mothers' laps.
4. Philadelphia University Collection
This is a Sumerian text contained in a clay tablet fragment from Nippur, discovered by Bobel at the Philadelphia University Museum, on which 90 lines can be paraphrased. The story is told by Ziusudra (meaning "long life"), a king and priest, who was carving and worshipping a wooden idol and praying for an oracle.
The oracle told him of a solemn decision of the gods: "We will send a flood with our own hands that will wipe out the human race. ...... "When the catastrophe was over, the hero escaped by hiding in a ship. Seven days later he opens the hatch and Utu, the sun god, appears. Jusura sacrifices a cow and a goat. Bowing to Anu and Enlil, he was granted eternal life in Dilmun (meaning "where the sun rises").
5. The Hundred Paths of Brahmana
The Hundred Paths of Brahmana (SatapathaBrahmana). Allegedly the earliest flood story in India, produced around the 10th century BC. The story goes that Manu was washing his hands in a pool when a fish suddenly jumped into his hands and spoke to him, "Take good care of me and I will bless you." And told him that a flood was coming.
Manu kept the fish in a clay bowl and moved it to a ditch as it grew, and finally into the sea. Later, when the flood came, Manu boarded a boat, tied it to the fish's horn, and the fish pulled it to the northern mountain, which came to be known as "Manu's Landing". When Manu landed, he offered butter and milk, whey and curds to the gods, and a woman appeared from the offerings, claiming to be the daughter of Manu, who later reproduced their descendants with Manu.
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