The Great Flood Myths

The Cosmic Myths of how the world commenced and how mankind came about, was told through different cultures. Elders would pass down the stories from generations to generations orally but the connection within the Old World and the New World is questionable. The Great Flood myths stories would be accountable to how Earth had a new beginning. Just like any other natural disaster, they are destructive and leave a mark behind. Based on cosmic conspiracy, floods create a new beginning to mankind but the cause for them is within the eyes of the beholder. The reasons for these differences are from the many generations of oral stories passed down so the myths will be vulnerable to being distorted from the original happenings. Cultural background also

This story illustrates that god decided to destroy humans with the great flood and boat needed to be built to save some people and animals. “The uproar of mankind is intolerable and sleep is no longer possible...gods agreed to exterminate mankind.” (page 44). To briefly summarize the other stories with similar meanings, Noah’s Ark was based on human’s sins and since Noah was one with god, he was saved along with his family and the animals through the “ark”. Another story was Greco-Roman: Deucalion and Pyrrha in which humans except for Deucalion and Pyrrha shall be punished by Jupiter with the help of Neptune for “a new stock of men, unlike the former ones, a race of miraculous origin.” (page 56). The third story that depicts the idea of human sin is India: Manu in which Manu and a little fish that came into his hands became a ghasha. The ghasha warned that there will be a flood and that he should prepare a ship in which Manu was the only one that was saved at the end, “The flood then swept away all these creatures, and Manu alone remained here.” (page 55). These stories share a common theme in which the deity or the deities eradicate civilizations based on their sins with the great flood. Although there are warnings from the deities on saving a few through a boat, ark, or a

A common story that revolves around humans adhering to god’s orders would be from the Mayan: The Popul-Vuh. Rather than punishing the humans, God decided that he should use the flood to erase the mistakes. The first mistake he made was not creating sound in the darkness when earth appeared but when the animals appeared, they began to communicate in their own way, “So they began to call and sing and hiss and snarl and scream..” (page 60-61) Since God needed a creature that talks to him he made men out of mud and wooden men but they have forgotten how they were formed. God needed, “men on the earth who will know My names, who will obey Me and love Me; and that will nourish and sustain Me.” (page 61). At the end of this story, he fulfilled his needs by creating four mens and their wives and cleared their