Every Flood Myth Africa Although the continent has relatively few flood legends.African cultures preserving an oral tradition of a flood include the Kwaya, Mbuti, Maasai, Mandin, and Yoruba peoples.[ Egypt The flood myth in Egyptian mythology involves the god 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 Serpent and the Great Flood Ojibwe: Manabozho and the Muskrat Ojibwe: Waynaboozhoo and the Great Flood Menomini: Manabozho and the Flood Other Algonquin-speaking peoples: Manabozho Stories Mi'kmaq: Two Creators and their Conflicts Anishinabe: Flood Myth - an Algonquin Story Ottawa: The Great Flood Cree: Cree Flood Story Cree (Knisteneaux): Knisteneaux Flood Myth Nipmuc: Cautanowwit Hopi mythology: Entrance into the Fourth World 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 land so rapidly that only a few people escaped in their skin canoes to the tops of the highest mountains." Mesoamerica Mesoamerican flood myths 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 creation myth Mesopotamia Gilgamesh flood myth Abrahamic religions Noah's Ark Islamic view of Noah China Yu the Great Nüwa Great Flood (China) India The Matsya avatar comes to the rescue of Manu Manu and Matsya: The legend first appears in Shatapatha Brahmana (700–300 BCE), and is further detailed in Matsya Purana (250–500 CE). Matsya (the incarnation of Lord Vishnu as a fish) forewarns Manu (a human) 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 religion 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 time, 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 Humans 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 being 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 deities Khun Luang and Khun Lai climbed down a massive vine linking an island heaven that floated in the sky to the earth 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 dream 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 folklore Finnish Finnish flood myth Oceania Polynesia Nu'u Ruatapu Tāwhaki.