World Flood Legends

                             Flood Legends From Around the World

                                                       The Ancients Knew of the Global Flood

Native global flood stories are documented as history or legend in almost every region on earth. Old world missionaries reported their amazement at finding remote tribes already possessing legends with tremendous similarities to the Bible's accounts of the worldwide flood. H.S. Bellamy in Moons, Myths and Men estimates that altogether there are over 500 Flood legends worldwide. Ancient civilisations such as (China, Babylonia, Wales, Russia, India, America, Hawaii, Scandinavia, Sumatra, Peru, and Polynesia) all have their own versions of a giant flood.

These flood tales are frequently linked by common elements that parallel the Biblical account including the warning of the coming flood, the construction of a boat in advance, the storage of animals, the inclusion of family, and the release of birds to determine if the water level had subsided. The overwhelming consistency among flood legends found in distant parts of the globe indicates they were derived from the same origin (the Bible's record), but oral transcription has changed the details through time.

Perhaps the second most important historical account of a global flood can be found in a Babylonian flood story in the Epic of Gilgamesh. When the Biblical and Babylonian accounts are compared, a number of outstanding similarities are found that leave no doubt these stories are rooted in the same event or oral tradition.

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BABYLONIAN
Take the seed of all creatures aboard the ship
BIBLE
Gen. 6:19 And of every living thing of all flesh you shall bring.
BABYLONIAN
I boarded the ship and closed the door.
BIBLE
Gen. 7:1 Come into the Ark Gen. 7:16 The Lord shut him in.
BABYLONIAN
I sent out a dove . . . The dove went, then came back, no resting-place appeared for it, so it returned.
BIBLE
Gen. 8:8 He sent out a dove...But the dove found no resting-place . . . and she returned.
BABYLONIAN
Then I sent out a raven . .it was the waters receding, it ate, it flew about to and fro, it did not return.
BIBLE
Gen. 8:7 He sent out a raven, which kept going to and fro until the waters had dried up from the Earth.
BABYLONIAN
I made a libation on the peak of the mountain.
BIBLE
Gen. 8:20 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord (on the mountain) and offered burnt offerings.
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How could anyone miss a mountain range the size of the European Alps?

Because the mountains, called the Gamburtsevs, lie deep under the ice of Antarctica. Though originally detected over 50 years ago, the mountains were only recently measured (by ice-penetrating radar and seismometers).

Scientists previously assumed the Antarctic landmass would be mostly flat below the ice—supposedly smoothed down by millions of years of glacial action. Instead, radar scans of the mountains revealed jagged peaks with little erosion, indicating that the ice sheet formed quickly and recently.

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There are hundreds of legends concerning the flood of Noah's day, all with to many similarities to be dismissed as coincidence, the whole world is filled with them, the next page will give you some examples.   Psalm 119:160