
Originally Posted by
Mystic Christian
Flood traditions are most common in Asian cultures and North Native Americans. They occur in Africa but not nearly as often as on other continents.
Native stories describe a new sky replacing an old one. Words like "the sky fell and the land was not" are common. The waters came together and all things drowned. Great Spirit, the Sacred One, dries the land and reveals grass once again. Humans may have been saved to observe the event or created again from it. Every tribe has it's version. Their amazing simplicity is their beauty.
The other end of the spectrum could be Ovid's account in Metamorphoses, the poem beginning with Creation and moving through paradise, the fall of man, the curse of sin and into the flood. It's one of my favorites!
As a believer in the Christian flood tradition, I believe all of them tell of one event when the earth was flood entirely or mostly, changing climate and animal populations forever. This is what caused layering of soil, the appearance of certain fossils in strange places, and destruction of the dinosaurs, etc.
This, of course, is merely my faith's "tradition".
I believe in the same story the christians do for the flood, some dude took 2 of every animal onto an arch with his family and his sons wives and waited out the flood. though my myth has to do with people being many in number and being so loud outside the homes of the gods (temples). And the many gods part is different.
I think the myths in cases like the great flood could be someone evidence, because of where they are distributed.
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