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Every Flood

Africa

Although the continent has relatively few flood legends.African preserving an of a flood include the Kwaya, Mbuti, Maasai, Mandin, and Yoruba peoples.[

Egypt

The flood myth in Egyptian mythology involves the Ra and his daughter Sekhmet. Ra sent Sekhmet to destroy part of humanity for their disrespect and unfaithfulness which resulted in a great flood of blood. However, Re intervened by getting her drunk and causing her to pass out. This is commemorated in a wine drinking festival during the annual Nile flood.

Americas

North America

Choctaw: A Choctaw Flood Story Ojibwe: Great and the Great Flood Ojibwe: Manabozho and the Muskrat Ojibwe: Waynaboozhoo and the Great Flood Menomini: Manabozho and Other Algonquin-speaking peoples: Manabozho Stories Mi'kmaq: Two Creators and their Conflicts Anishinabe: - an Algonquin Story Ottawa: The Great Flood Cree: Cree Flood Story Cree (Knisteneaux): Knisteneaux Flood Myth Nipmuc: Cautanowwit Hopi mythology: Entrance into the Fourth W̱ SÁNEĆ peoples: flood myth Comox people: Legend of Queneesh Anishinaabe: Turtle Island Inuit: flood myth Nisqually - In the beginning of the Nisqually world. Eskimo (Orowignarak, Alaska): "A great inundation, together with an earthquake, swept the so rapidly that only a few people escaped in their skin canoes to the tops of the highest mountains."

Mesoamerica

Mesoamerican flood

South America

Canari

Urcocari

Inca

Unu Pachakuti

Mapuche Mapuche

Legend of Trentren Vilu and Caicai Vilu

Muisca

Bochica

Tupi

Sumé

Asia

Ancient Near East

Sumerian

Sumerian

Mesopotamia

Gilgamesh flood myth

Abrahamic

Noah's Ark Islamic view of

China

Yu the Great Nüwa Great Flood (China)

India

The comes to the rescue of Manu and Matsya: The legend first appears in (700–300 BCE), and is further detailed in Matsya Purana (250–500 CE). Matsya (the incarnation of Lord as a fish) forewarns Manu (a ) about an impending catastrophic flood and orders him to collect all the grains of the world in a boat; in some forms of the story, all living creatures are also to be preserved in the boat. When the flood destroys the world, Manu – in some versions accompanied by the seven great sages – survives by boarding the ark, which Matsya pulls to safety. Puluga, the creator god in the of the indigenous inhabitants of the Andaman Islands, sends a devastating flood to punish people who have forgotten his commands. Only four people survive this flood: two men and two women.

Korea

Mokdoryung Malaysia Malaysia

Temuan Orang Seletar

Philippines

Igorot: Once upon a , when the world was flat and there were no mountains, there lived two brothers, sons of Lumawig, the Great Spirit. The brothers were fond of hunting, and since no mountains had formed there was no good place to catch wild pig and deer, and the older brother said: "Let us cause water to flow over all the world and cover it, and then mountains will rise up."

Thailand

The Origin of from A Massive Magical Gourd, by Suradej Kaewthamai

There are many folktales among Tai peoples, included Zhuang, Thai, Shan and Lao, talking about the origin of them and the deluge from their Thean (แถน), supreme object of faith.

Pu Sangkasa-Ya Sangkasi Thai or Grandfather Sangkasa and Grandmother Sangkasi, according to the creation myth of those Tai people folktales, were the first man and woman created by the supreme god, Phu Ruthua . A thousand years passed, their descendants were wicked and crude as well as not interested in worshiping the supreme god. The god got angry and punished them with a great flood. Fortunately, some descendants survived because they fled into an enormous magical gourd. Many months passed, the supreme god had compassion on the humans that had to live in the difficult period of their life, so he had two Khun Luang and Khun Lai climbed down a massive vine linking an island that floated in the sky to the in order to drill the enormous gourd and take the surviving humans to a new land. The water levels had been come down already and there was the dry land. The deities helped the surviving people and led them to the new land. When everyone arrived in the land called Mueang Thaen, the two deities taught the humans how to cultivate rice, farming and building structures.

Taiwan's Saisiat Tribe

An old white-haired man came to Oppehnaboon in a and told him that a great storm would soon come. Oppehnaboon built a boat. Only Oppehnaboon and his sister survived. They had a child, they cut the child into pieces and each piece became a new person. Oppehnaboon taught the new people their names and they went forth to populate the earth.

Europe

Classic Antiquity

Ancient Greek flood myths

Medieval Europe

Irish

Lebor Gabála Érenn – Cessair

Welsh

Dwyfan and Dwyfach Cantre'r Gwaelod Cantre'r Gwaelod

Norse

Bergelmir

Bashkir

Ural-batyr

Modern era

Finnish

Finnish flood myth

Oceania

Polynesia

Nu'u Ruatapu Tāwhaki