Noah, the Ark, and the Flood is only one of hundreds of stories told around the world for hundreds and thousands of years. There are legend from many civilizations that carry the same catastrophic events in ways that reflect their own interpretations, but each carries similar threads.
Legends of the Great Flood
The Chipewyans have a legend of a deluge when the waters spread over the whole earth. The only exception was the highest mountains, on the tops of which they preserved themselves. The story is told by the Mandans that there were four tortoises on the earth, to the north, south, east and west. Each tortoise rained for ten days, and the water covered the earth.
The Shastus shared a story of the time when the flood came and destroyed all the animals except for a squirrel the size of a bear. Legend says that this mythical creature still exists on a mountain called by the Shastus.
In the Lake Tahoe region it was believed that the natives owned the whole earth, and its people were prosperous and strong. Over time others rose up stronger and they enslaved the people. The Great Spirit sent a wave across the land, wiping out both the oppressed and the oppressors.
The Great Flood – Sole Survivers
One of legends in Mexico says that the first age, the age of water, ended with a great flood. Everything perished except one man and one woman of the giant race. Many villages share the same story, with paintings of a boat floating in the waters carrying one man and one woman.
Many of these stories were shared in public domain books such as: Ancient Athens: its History, Topography, and Remains by Thomas Henry Dyer; Atlantis: the Antediluvian World by Ignatius Donnelly; The Mammoth and the Flood by Henry Hoyle Howorth.
Cataclysmic Events – What about Atlantis?
With so many stories of great floods we can only wonder if all these legends point to the same Cataclysmic event? Plato gave us the story of Atlantis being wiped out by a major flood, with a large civilization disappearing in one day and one night. Storytellers have carried forth an amazing legend of events that has resounded around the world.
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