Ancient Flood Legends and Stories from Around the World
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- Although the biblical story of Noah’s Ark is the best known, numerous cultures all around the globe and throughout history have developed their own versions of the flood myth, with the oldest one being the Eridu Genesis, also known as the Sumerian Flood myth from Mesopotamia. It is thought that this particular flood myth influenced the others in the Mesopotamian region, including the Gilgamesh flood myth, and the Genesis flood myth found in the Hebrew Bible/ Christian Old Testament (you may already be familiar with the story of Noah and his ark). This video is going to have a look at the Eridu Genesis and the Genesis flood myth as well as flood myths from Ancient Greece, Ancient China, and the Maya of Mesoamerica. These myths all emphasise the cultural value of gratitude, respect for one's origins and past, and the necessity for humility and reverence before one's gods.
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0:42 Introduction to the Flood Myth
3:40 Sumerian Flood Myth
6:26 Noah's Ark
7:32 Ancient Greek Flood Myth
9:09 Chinese Flood Myth
11:02 Maya Flood Legend
12:48 Outro
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Why do you think so many different cultures would have created a flood myth? What similarities (other than the flood) can you see between the examples we have given? Let us know what you think!
This is an interesting topic that deserves another video. A video about the value of storytelling:
What I mean is the oral tradition. Since the 1900's this has vastly declined. And this is a BIG problem. Traditions that lasted hundreds of years were lost to industry and the internet that removed locality from the equation. People build wherever they want now. Take Andalucía for example. Nice place to live? Not really. It has a brutal history of Tsunamis. Basically, you have a lovely curved coastline that runs down from Huelva and ends abruptly at Sanlucar.
Anything that happens out in the Atlantic happily runs down that coast and slams into it.
Have a closer look at a DEM from down there.
How it has survived for the past 1000 years is beyond me. Only about 6-9 people died there in 1755... That we know of. Pot luck I guess.
But here's the thing. Before 1956, Nobody - And I mean NOBODY was mad enough to build on the dunes. Apart from the military (They had to due to Barbary pirates. Hint: It did not work out well.) And some crazy fishermen. This was because it was traditionally forbidden.
Then Franco came along in his infinite wisdom and arrogance and slapped a city (Matalascanas) there.
Between them, there are about 250,000 people living there now.
I collaborated with one of the chief archaeologists in Spain and he was well shook. We did not know the true magnitude of what could go wrong there. I still think of them every few days. And I hope to God he has been somewhat successful at getting this point across.
Then across the pond in America, you have Florida. Average height... 6 feet. Well... Too late now. Almost everyone (The Natives) were wiped out by settlers or disease. No more stories from them... For all of our time on this planet it has been a steadfast rock. A directional clue to our history.
It deserves a video. A story of how we SHOULD tell stories.
Can I just point out that the oft-quoted meme, that "warmer air can hold more water", was debunked over 200 years ago by the well-known polymath, statesman and climate denier, Benjamin Franklin. Warmer air holds nothing; all gases act independently, so warmer conditions cause more water to evaporate. That's all.
@@MrYAMAHA32177 Throughout history their has been many analogies even centuries before fossil fuel
I have done a boatload of research on this subject. It is really about a comet breaking up and forming the Taurid Stream which bombarded Earth 12,900 years ago and other times as many cultures testify that there were numerous Ages of Man. It was a worldwide show from space and many place its origin as the Pleiades which is where the stream appears to come from to this day.
The stories of great flood(s) from the Mayans to the Chinese is strong evidence that they did happen. But it's also very strong evidence that all of life was not destroyed. Obviously, someone survived to write those stories. Remembering that in those ancient days the "whole world" consisted of your valley and maybe a few others within a few days ride on a donkey or camel. Also, keep in mind that very few people could read or write so the stories were passed down verbally. They were undoubtedly greatly exaggerated. So, Noah was most likely a farmer with a boat who went around rescuing goats, chickens, pigs and other farm animals, probably dogs and cats too. That became - he saved all the animals in the whole world.
Don't you find it interesting that so many civilizations have a flood story? Why not a great drain story? Or a great tree building story? To me it seems more likely there was an ancient flood as mentioned in the bible.
That data actually shows to that, if you want, there’s a video from Joe Rogan interviewing a scientist who is an avid believer that a great flood wiped the great mammals 10-15 thousand years ago. Mimicking the periods spoken about in these stories
It’s all a bit surreal , yeah perhaps the ark itself was a stretch , but the flood definitely happened .
well drains and tree-building didn't happen on any scale, unlike floods which often occur on small(er) scales that are still very notable. Even then if it happened accurately not all cultures would have died.
There probably was a massiv flood in the middle eastern and mediterranian Region, but the bible Story is probably a later Version from the Summerian Story about the Same flood.
Why not a story about how chocolate fell onto the humans of earth in little drip-drops.. bringing us🍫+🌧= Chocolate Rain. And why isn't there the important portion of the flood myth, when _______ (fill in with name of supreme being) gets the water bill? Or how he/she has to see the damage, then toss rolls of paper towels at _all_ the silly little numbskulls who make futile attempts at building new cities & houses in a sandbar covered in ornery reptiles & elderly folks in golf carts.
Or a giant flood in America the Morrison formation where sea and land animals are buried together all over the place for 1000s of miles not to mention sea creatures found on the tops of every mountain.
There's flood story too in Hinduism... About King Manu and Matsya Avatar
I think the fact that several different cultures and nations spanning from china to the americas have a similar flood story show that the world wide flood actually did happen
Agreed
It absolutely happened. There is a lot of evidence to prove it. The really weird thing is so many cultures have a similar creation story about how people(sometimes called Gods or star people) came down and seeded humanity. Many of them describe things that would be considered aliens and UFOs in today's definition. Even freakier is that there are a lot of cave paintings and drawing from different parts of the world that depict what we recognize as the stereotypical alien today.
Somebody was filling the bathtub, and became distracted by a phone call.
Possibly the end of the last ice age. All that combined water melting in the span of like a century and then a sudden flood bursts. The amount of water from the melted ice would be like if a Great Lake suddenly was plopped down onto the Midwest.
Ben Davidson from Suspicious0bservers is right.
How come that numerous cultures around the world with no contact whatsoever tell the same myth about a flood which destroyed the world from which only a number of people survived under the lead of a man who made a great ship and fill it with animals!?
numerous cultures also tell stories about the sun and the moon and the stars and dragons and witches and animal-human hybrids. Learning about mythology is all fun and cute until your own religion is the mythology being spoken about
@@tawan20082008 what I was saying is that I believe all mythologie is a fragment of a distant past still ringing in the human psyche. The problem is that we became all caught up in today's academic narrative until we forgot to wonder any more.
@@tawan20082008 To be precise more than 300!!
@@tawan20082008 dragons you mean dinosaurs thats correct
Because the Global deluge of Noah's day nearly 5000 years ago was a actual event.
Ppl discount Bible stories because they have to confront morals. It’s not just arbitrary flood stories there are themes across all myth stories. But tbh the flood wouldn’t have to have been that big, as the Bible would explain the human population to be more localized as a whole during the time. After the Tower of Babel #onelove was where humans would have spread out. I think there’s a Yucatán story of the Mexi people traveling for centuries before finding their home.
@@educationisajoke7053 I agree 100% brother. I’d like to add it’s easier for them to hate God than confront their own self loathing, and wrong doing!
We hindus have a record of great flood..
A man father of the human kind take every being in his giant boat and with a help of huge fish (krishna's avatar) he travel to the himalaya (highest peak in the world)
No bro.....Flood started from kerala.....and whole Earth sunk in water and Manu's Ark Stopped on Judi mountain which is in Iran when Rain water got low......when Land got to appear Manu and his family members and his few disciples came on land from Mountain and Prostrate for God...........this judi mountain is Iran.....According to Mahabharata The boat Stopped in Nevbandhan Village.....There is Nevbandhan city in Iran now........and he was not Krishna who took them to the peak of Himalaya......at that time Krishna was not born.......He was Supreme Lord Formless Vishnu who helped Them in Great flood to make ship and get saved in Great flood.......After the Great Flood......God gave Manu the Vedas.....
Brilliant presentation! You are doing a very important thing to enlight the world, of our forgotten history for real!! Keep up the really great work!!!!
The ancient flood myths have always fascinated me! Thank you for this video :)
Thankyou for watching!
Noah's flood was not a myth. It was a real event that actually happened.
@@horseandcart5978 It was a myth based on a real event.
@@stephensmith7995 it was a real event distorted by it's detractors into a fabricated myth.
The Genesis account found in the Dead Sea Scrolls was also well known to copied down from much earlier accounts. And while you state that the Gilgamesh account is believed to be much older, THAT is strictly according to who you listen to. It is also well known that many believe the Genesis account to be from much earlier. The worldwide accounts have too much in common to be mere localized myths unrelated to each other. For instance, the Mandan Indians of the upper Missouri River near present day Bismark North Dakota had a flood account with not only a boat, a man's family and many animals aboard to be saved, but even a crow being released near the end of the flood for purposes of seeing if any dry land had appeared. The EXACT same bird released by Noah, for the EXACT SAME REASON! These are statistically way beyond the probability of mere chance. They all came the from the same original account- the actual flood survivors that these people are descended from worldwide.
Insightful, very well done
Hope you enjoyed it, thanks for watching!
Sumeria had the first writing. But oral traditions had existed for mellenia. They were simply the first to print an ark myth.
Also I had a hypothesis that perhaps there were more than just one ark. That other locations around the earth had individuals who were inspired like Noah at the same time to build, and save the air breathing animals in those regions.
Interesting thought. Thanks for watching! 🙂
Oooo. This is really nice!
great video, thanks!
Thankyou for watching!
thanks for this interesting info- Jack
Thanks for watching, Jack! 🙂
All the floods seemed to come from ingratitude to their maker/s.
Do any of you know about the website that has only legends and not myths? I am interested only in legends and not myths
people are also assuming that the world preflood is the same world after the flood.
having a catastrophic flood would change the world drastically and you wouldnt have to have the entire world covered to the top of where mt everest is today.
btw there are fossilized seashells on the top of mt everest
Mt. Everest was under water for about a hundred and fifty million years before the Indian plate slammed into the Eurasian plate. The sea floor was then thrusted up and is now the Himalayas. Naturally a now exposed seafloor will be covered in seashells. A great flood wouldn't distribute fossils into different layers of an already established mountain. There definitely were floods, but not one big one.
@@asherperkinsmusic2767 you're assuming that mountain range was there prior to a flood. And fossils also naturally sort during floods
@@djphlange For sure. These mountains in particular are between 40-50 million years. If a flood happened before that, it would not be in our oral history, as we've only been around to see the Earth for 160,000 years. Now, if you think the Earth is around 6,000 years old, then you'll agree with none of this, and there is no discussion to be had.
@@djphlange indeed they may naturally sort on top of the land mass, but flood waters don't deposit shells or animals into multiple deep strata of rock.
Fossils exist at high elevation because of uplift from the plates colliding and riding up on each other, and that doesn't happen fast.
I love how Ballard is holding his VHS copy of Titanic in that photo.
Makes sense that if the Ark landed at Mt. Ararat and civilization started over, they would end up in the river valleys of the Euphrates and Tigress.
Thanks for watching!
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Nice Video....
Just found your channel looking for this very specific question. 😁. Glad I found you!!
Glad it was helpful!
The great flood is so fascinating
Ben Davidson from Suspicious0bservers has the best explanation of this phenomenon.
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If you consider that there were floods all over the world in the stone age when the last ice age ended approximately 12,000 years ago. People gathered around and told the stories to their children.
The younger driest impact across the northern continents... Ice cores samples shows 30ft rise in sea levels in 24hrs and something like 700ft sea level rise in the following months
you missed the flood myth from Hinduism - The book "Matsya Purana" talk about this
Thanks for your feedback! We only share content from our website, which means we probably don't have anything written (yet) about the Hinduism flood myth.
All the great civilizations of history have the same common origin in the Caucasus, where people have suffered a great flood at the end of the last ice age. The Gravettians were the anti-deluvian culture who handed down their heritage to the People of Göbekli Tepe and the first settled communities of the Levant and the Near East. This was the place from where they have spreaded all over the world brought their folklore, megalithic architecture, astronomical knowledge, and metaphisical tradition to all continent.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
The Biblical reason for the flood was because of complete and total evil upon the earth by in all humans “apart from Noah and his family.
Exactly, the pre flood world was totally corrupt.
Haha this same woman who thinks there was no flood on earth probably thinks there was a flood on Mars.
The flood started from India and That ship stopped on the Judi mountain.......when water gets low....Noah and his people came down on Land.......and This Judi mountain is in Iran...........
1: 53 because it actually happened?
People forget that the Bible says that fountains of the deep,gysers broke open and flooded the earth not just rain.
Each time I see a scholar speak about the flood myths I feel like Christians should be reminded to stop lying.
Your Chinese account was not a worldwide flood account at all, and you know it. You instead put in a Yellow River only account to try to tie in the other accounts in the same bag.
I think every flood myth has a more philosopical meaing. You have to build your "ark" - before the ego takes over. The ego in this case is the flood.
Interesting... Thanks for sharing your thoughts. 🙂
“And God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence through them; and behold, I will destroy them with the earth. Make yourself an ark of gopherwood; make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and outside with pitch. And this is how you shall make it: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits. You shall make a window for the ark, and you shall finish it to a cubit from above; and set the door of the ark in its side. You shall make it with lower, second, and third decks. And behold, I Myself am bringing floodwaters on the earth, to destroy from under heaven all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything that is on the earth shall die. But I will establish My covenant with you; and you shall go into the ark-you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you. And of every living thing of all flesh you shall bring two of every sort into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female. Of the birds after their kind, of animals after their kind, and of every creeping thing of the earth after its kind, two of every kind will come to you to keep them alive. And you shall take for yourself of all food that is eaten, and you shall gather it to yourself; and it shall be food for you and for them.” Thus Noah did; according to all that God commanded him, so he did.”
Genesis 6:13-22
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Crazy the Epic of Gilgamesh predates the biblical Noah's flood by 1400yrs and its almost word for word huh?!
@@chrishanna5926 because Christianity has a habit of co-opting or taking stories from others, in order to make them feel included, as they try to spread their beliefs that actually have changed over time.
King James Version
16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit
It wasn’t every animal nor two of every animal but 2 of every “kind” of animal, nor was God sorry for the flood “as if He made a mistake” but was grieved at heart that they had become so evil and then brought out His righteous justice because of the ultimate sin of humanity by a flood. He said He would never flood the world again but will eventually destroy the earth by fire at the end of days because of humanities great sin again. Only those who place their faith in Christ Jesus who is the Lord and Savior of the world.
Two of every kind is as impossible as two of every animal. Geography alone is a problem let alone the size of the dinghy!
Yea God dont make mistakes...
And the bible said 2 of every kind....no need to doubt bcos it was a supernatural event
I think someone is translating the texts wrong. LOL
Clearly it's not a myth if civilisations share a version of this great flood. Civilisations that were half way across the world from each other.
It's definitely an interesting thing to ponder. Thanks for watching! 🙂
BIBLE = Written history of Living God
You missed Hindu flood myth, story of Manu.
Thank you for your feedback. We may cover this in a future video.
If you make all the mountains flat and all the valleys rise to make the earth perfectly round we would be under a mile of water. Where are all the water from the flood you say? Most of it is still here. The pressure from the water and the water coming out of the ground caused all the valleys and mountains
Thanks for watching and sharing your thoughts. 🙂
Do read about Indus Valley civilization and how it was destroyed due to a flood. It is the oldest known civilization and you should have included it in the video.
Manu story
Local floods contribute to the amalgamation of flood stories that are eventually compiled into a great flood myth
I think a big flood did happen, but I don't think it was a global flood.
what I think we would see if we had a time machine and could witness it in first hand, is our humanity common ancestors, from the Mayans to Chinese and Africans, maybe all the back to the stone age. And we would be incredibly bored seeing them dying/surviving a normal-everyday flood. Since back in those times, they didn't even knew if the sun would come back when it was night.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
@@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia No problem bro. Anytime
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All the stories talk about repopulating afterwards. Often with some help...
Because civilization was born on thee banks of rivers and estuaries, floods were probably pretty frequent and at some point there would have been an exceptional catastrophic local flood, becoming the basis for flood myths. Then some cultures like the Hebrews were inspired by older ones, like the Sumerians, to create their own flood myths.
Because the global actually happened and after the flood, Noah and his family told their children’s children and so on and they all met up at Babel for which God told them to spread out over the whole earth but they rebelled. God then gave them different languages for which they would then spread out over the whole earth taking their knowledge with them “including the global flood” for which they obviously had their own stories of it based on their cultural context and they also had the knowledge of animal sacrifices for sin, giants and many other things they all had knowledge of before they dispersed. Why? Because it actually happened.
so they all remembered the flood around the world, but forgot the god the caused it, created everyone and everything?
@@coreylee9342 The possibility of lying to one's children or people because you made a pact with other "gods" ever occur to you? IF the Bible speaks true, then the fallen angels, Satan's angels, who is also called the father of LIES, could and would deceive the nations into worshiping different "gods" The scenario you are implying is of fallen angels in rebellion against God who HATE HIM and want to ruin mankind out of spite, but who are bound to tell the truth about Him because...sportsmanship ?
@@coreylee9342 that happens all the time. People don't like the one true God and instead create their own gods.
The fact that there are flood myths around the world makes me think that there indeed was a worldwide flood. This explains phenomenons such as the formation of the Grand canyon, and the fact that scientists have discovered various species of birds, land animals and sea animals in different strata formations of rock layer, indicating that the fossilization process was rapid and under catastrophe.
Not a myth. Historical legend.
damn sad that people can’t have basic compassion for other human beings we really are living in a shitty time
Not a myth but thank you for the video
I love Kelly. Besides her being beautiful it's very evident she loves what she's doing and enjoys her role telling this great stories back in old times.
Are there African flood myths too?
Yes. The Yoruba is very similar to the Bible’s as well. It is one of the oldest African religions out there, and is still practice as far away as Haiti.
Yes, several... plus the Hawaiian flood legend of Cunahana is almost similar to the Noah's true saga. Yes there was a worldwide flood and Noah's offsprings retold those stories after that earth changing event Genesis chapter 6 to chapter 11 kjv
There is overwhelming physical evidence in geology, the fossil record, and even fossil fuels that there was a devastating world wide flood event.
Citation needed.
@@Unbrutal_Rawr look it up
@@rh3309 Yep, as I expected, a lazy rude little liar.
@@Unbrutal_Rawr false
@@rh3309 false
2 Chronicles 7:14
King James Version
14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Nah the flood happened.
Came across this video when searching for flood myths. One clarification I would like to point out is the great flood in Chinese history(not the Yu one) was not because of human sins or dragon but two gods fought against each other. The goddess who created mankind helped stopped the flood but did not re-populated mankind. If there's any text I don't know let me know.
See Joe Rogan's show with Randal Carlson.
We find almost all the facts from the Christian Bible ✝️
Thanks for watching.
Please don't shove your beliefs down people's throats
@@Chase_baker_1996 Don't shove your non- beliefs down everyone's throat, numnuts
@@YECBIBI'm not shoving my non beliefs down people's throats. I'm a believer in God, but I'm not like Fundamentals or those hateful people at the Westboro "Baptist Church"
@@Chase_baker_1996 Haha....Bible says spread around His word. 🤦♂️✝️
It's not a myth lol
The magnetic field getting weaker proves you can't barely get past about 6 thousand years. ✝️
Of course the original was in Mesopotamia, where everything started, the Bible and other religions versions are nothing but copies, great video as usual
@@DrTiggy666 no analysis of any kind I was just stating facts that most people refuse to acknowledge. If you don't like my comment how about ignoring it.
@@DrTiggy666 you made your point, now let's cool it a bit
Why are there many versions of the great flood? Because It was originated from the original great flood in the Bible.
Not actually... The Epic of Gilgamesh predates the biblical flood story by 1400yrs
It's God not gods,whackadoodles.
We're talking about the days before Christianity.
@@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia The Bible is true about Noah's Flood 💯Jesus the Savior confirmed the old Testament. ✝️
@@YECBIBthere is no need to be rude
@@Chase_baker_1996 It's rude saying god....not God. 🤪
@@YECBIB no calling people Whackadoodles is rude and it's not very Christian like
It's not a myth.
The flood started from India and That ship stopped on the Judi mountain.......when water gets low....Noah and his people came down on Land.......and This Judi mountain is in Iran...........