Flood Legends From Around the World

There are many stories about cultural floods. Flood story often includes higher powers and floods civilization with action to offend higher powers. The story tells you how certain families and floods will consume the world. Although the story about the flood is in many cultures, these floods have similar details, but we can not believe it is not so, but it depends on the individual whether the story of the flood is correct or not.

Liberal factions often argue that Gilgamesh epic is scattered in serious river floods, local floods. If there is a similar flood legend in ancient Near East, this may work. But there are thousands of such flood legends all over the world - see some examples in the table below 11. Without their language and structure, people will not have the roots. While recording it, you also tell stories and folklore. If those people lose the history of many people. These stories usually have a common root that can explain real events rather than just myths. For example, all Amazon societies studied have a legend about the Great Flood. 12 years

One of my favorites from Sapiens is the exploration of the history of the Chinese Yangtze by Hariri, China is the third largest river in the world. About 4,000 years ago, Chinese legend depicted a flood that almost destroyed the tribe along the Yangtze River. With this crisis they were forced to imagine a new society that makes them aggressive and prosperous regardless of their natural arbitrariness. Over time, this different group of tribes became another. It is an empire.

Entering China to the east, the flood legend seems to have a new meaning. Myths were recorded around 1000 BC. Zhou dynasty era. "The main difference between the Chinese flood myth and the Western culture seems to be emphasis on floods.In Western mythology floods are caused by the wrath of God and the surge of God.In Chinese myth, the focus is very Practical The problem is to guide water that can not be cultivated in this way and to enable land cultivation. "(Cybercomm.com, March 15) In other words, the purpose of flooding creates better agricultural land It is that. There is no sense of divine intervention