A flood myth or a deluge myth is a myth in which a great flood, usually sent by a deity or deities, destroys civilization, often in an act of divine retribution...

Flood myths are common across a wide range of cultures, extending back into Bronze Age and Neolithic prehistory. These accounts depict a flood, sometimes...

The Gilgamesh flood myth is a flood myth in the Epic of Gilgamesh. It is one of three Mesopotamian Flood Myths alongside the one including in the Eridu...

The Genesis flood narrative (chapters 6–9 of the Book of Genesis) is a Hebrew flood myth. It tells of God's decision to return the universe to its pre-creation...

Eridu Genesis, also called the Sumerian Creation Myth, Sumerian Flood Story and the Sumerian Deluge Myth, offers a description of the story surrounding...

The Great Flood of Gun-Yu, also known as the Gun-Yu myth, was a major flood in ancient China that allegedly continued for at least two generations, which...

Many Mesoamerican flood myths have been documented in written form or passed down through in oral tradition. Some clearly have Torah influences, but others...

though often with similar or even contradictory details. Like most flood myths, these stories often involve themes of divine retribution, the savior...

The Finnish flood myth is recorded in the Kalevala rune entitled Haava (The Wound, section 8). Väinämöinen attempts a heroic feat that results in a gushing...

statue, or sometimes tortoise statue. A less widespread flood myth involves the goddess Magu: this myth involves the cyclic rise and fall of the ocean level...