Add to ORKGIn various cultures, stories of great floods have arisen, and many scholars agree that the writers of these stories based their accounts on an actual flooding event. However, these narratives vary in characters, plot, and even their meaning to each culture. This thesis examines several Laurasian flood narratives, perhaps the most ancient narratives in Western literature, including those of the Egyptian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Sumerian, and Israeli cultures. These civilizations all rose and existed in close proximity to one another, which makes the historicity of a flooding event more probable. A structural examination of the narratives and a comparison of their commonalities allows for a consideration of the civilizations from which they cam...
An extensive review of both creation and flood myths reveals that there is a basic core of themes in...
By looking at creation myths across various time, cultures, and languages, I was able to track simil...
Disaster and Catastrophe myths are common in all cultures. Of these, the most widespread is the floo...
Mythological compendia and indexes such as that by Stith Thompson create the impression that flood m...
Abstract. Mythological compendia and indexes such as that by Stith Thompson create the impression th...
In this thesis, I demonstrate how the biblical flood myth is revisited in narrative framings of floo...
Water, as the source of all life, has the power to create and destroy. Floods, prior to modern meteo...
Water, as the source of all life, has the power to create and destroy. Floods, prior to modern meteo...
Water, as the source of all life, has the power to create and destroy. Floods, prior to modern meteo...
Flood narratives are a recurring aspect of the cultural record, particularly within religious and my...
For thousands of years, the legend of a great flood has endured in the biblical story of Noah and in...
It is a long established fact that stories of a global flood permeate oral traditions and mythologie...
Noah's flood is one of the most ancient religious stories of the world. The story is told and re...
The story of the primeval cataclysmic flood which wiped out all life on earth, save for one family, ...
The story of the primeval cataclysmic flood which wiped out all life on earth, save for one family, ...
An extensive review of both creation and flood myths reveals that there is a basic core of themes in...
By looking at creation myths across various time, cultures, and languages, I was able to track simil...
Disaster and Catastrophe myths are common in all cultures. Of these, the most widespread is the floo...
Mythological compendia and indexes such as that by Stith Thompson create the impression that flood m...
Abstract. Mythological compendia and indexes such as that by Stith Thompson create the impression th...
In this thesis, I demonstrate how the biblical flood myth is revisited in narrative framings of floo...
Water, as the source of all life, has the power to create and destroy. Floods, prior to modern meteo...
Water, as the source of all life, has the power to create and destroy. Floods, prior to modern meteo...
Water, as the source of all life, has the power to create and destroy. Floods, prior to modern meteo...
Flood narratives are a recurring aspect of the cultural record, particularly within religious and my...
For thousands of years, the legend of a great flood has endured in the biblical story of Noah and in...
It is a long established fact that stories of a global flood permeate oral traditions and mythologie...
Noah's flood is one of the most ancient religious stories of the world. The story is told and re...
The story of the primeval cataclysmic flood which wiped out all life on earth, save for one family, ...
The story of the primeval cataclysmic flood which wiped out all life on earth, save for one family, ...
An extensive review of both creation and flood myths reveals that there is a basic core of themes in...
By looking at creation myths across various time, cultures, and languages, I was able to track simil...
Disaster and Catastrophe myths are common in all cultures. Of these, the most widespread is the floo...