The Gods are Angry: Possible Origins of Global Flood Myth

Most of us may have heard the famous Biblical story about the Noah's ark and the flood. What most people may not know is that this story is only one of many stories. The ancient culture from Greece and the Middle East to Asia and America has a story of flooding the earth in their myths. Most of these stories contain the same theme: God or a group of gods get angry; they drown the earth, but save a small group of people. These people built a boat to survive.

Some myths are almost universal, and their widespread distribution prove their age. The best example is the famous flood myth. The story of the flood that is recorded in the Bible is not the original of the ancient Hebrew, but it is derived from the early Babylonian girugamesh epic. However, the Babylonian version now absorbed the undoubted flood myth that existed thousands of years ago. Indeed, the myth of the flood is too old, so there is a chance to spread widely. In fact, almost all human society knows from Australian indigenous people to Tierra del Fuego.

The myth of floods and floods is usually the story that the floods sent by gods and gods destroy civilization and are often sacred retribution. Because floods are explained as a means to purify humans and prepare for regeneration, it is usually a parallel line between these mythical floods and primitive water found in some creative myths I will be drawn. Most flood myths include cultural heroes that "represent human desires for life". Many cultures can be seen in the story of Greek myths Mesopotamia, Deucalion, Pyrrha, Hindu Pralaya, Chinese mythology Gun-Yu, and Nordic myth Bergelmir floods. Mythological theme of the flood. K'iche 'and Maya in Central America, Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa tribe in South America, Muisca and Cañari tribe in South America, Indigenous Tribe in South Australia