Great Flood Legends Around The World
Most of us have heard the biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood. This story has carried both moral concepts and legend throughout history. Noah, the Ark, and the Flood is only one of hundreds of stories told around the world for hundreds and thousands of years. These are just a few of the stories:
The Mandans, who populated an area on the Missouri, told the story of the earth as a huge tortoise covered with dirt and supported by water. One day men of white color pierced the carapace of the tortoise while digging to catch badgers. Immediately water gushed from the hole and drown all of mankind except one man.
During a time of great flood, in California, on Reed Peak, there is legend of a coyote, the only living creature to survive in the world. There was a single feather floating in the rippled water. The coyote looked at the feather, and while watching the feather formed flesh and bones and became the first eagle. The eagle and the coyote formed an alliance, but were still lonely, and so they created men.
In the Lake Tahoe region it was believed that the natives owned the whole earth, and its people were prosperous and strong. Over time others rose up stronger and they enslaved the people. The Great Spirit sent a wave across the land, wiping out both the oppressed and the oppressors.
One of legends in Mexico says that the first age, the age of water, ended with a great flood. Everything perished except one man and one woman of the giant race. Many villages share the same story, with paintings of a boat floating in the waters carrying one man and one woman.
Many of these stories were shared in public domain books such as: Ancient Athens: its History, Topography, and Remains by Thomas Henry Dyer; Atlantis: the Antediluvian World by Ignatius Donnelly; The Mammoth and the Flood by Henry Hoyle Howorth.
With so many stories of great floods we can only wonder if all these legends point to the same Cataclysmic event? Plato gave us the story of Atlantis being wiped out by a major flood, with a large civilization disappearing in one day and one night. Storytellers have carried forth an amazing legend of events that has resounded around the world.
Evolution comes from our own thought as well as lessons learned from occurances from the past. For more stories of the great flood and other ancient legends visit IntuitiveMeaning.com. Learn more about how evolutionary the Mayan Tzolkin Calendar can be in our present time world.
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