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  2. Genesis flood narrative - Wikipedia

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    The Flood of Noah and Companions (c. 1911) by Léon Comerre. The Genesis flood narrative (chapters 6–9 of the Book of Genesis) is a Hebrew flood myth. [1] It tells of God's decision to return the universe to its pre-creation state of watery chaos and remake it through the microcosm of Noah's ark.

  3. Flood myth - Wikipedia

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    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. Parallels are often drawn between the flood waters of these myths and the primeval waters which appear in certain creation myths , as the flood waters are described as a measure for ...

  4. List of flood myths - Wikipedia

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    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. Norbert Oettinger argues that the story originally was about Yama , but that he was replaced by his brother Manu due to the social context of the authorship of the Shatapatha Brahmana.

  5. Great Molasses Flood - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 5 January 2025. 1919 accident in Massachusetts, United States Great Molasses Flood The wreckage of the collapsed tank is visible in background, center, next to the light-colored warehouse Date January 15, 1919 ; 105 years ago (1919-01-15) Time Approximately 12:30 pm Location Boston, Massachusetts, U.S ...

  6. Archaeologists Think They Might Have Found The Real Noah’s Ark

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    Some believe that a more local flood may have been possible, but that is also debated. The team says it isn’t currently possible to say that Noah’s Ark itself was at the Durupinar site.

  7. Noah's Ark - Wikipedia

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    Noah's Ark (1846), by the American folk painter Edward Hicks. Noah's Ark (Hebrew: תיבת נח; Biblical Hebrew: Tevat Noaḥ) [Notes 1] is the boat in the Genesis flood narrative through which God spares Noah, his family, and examples of all the world's animals from a global deluge. [1]

  8. Noah - Wikipedia

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    After the flood, God commands Noah and his sons to "be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth". The story of Noah in the Pentateuch is similar to the flood narrative in the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh, composed around 1800 BC, where a hero builds an ark to survive a divinely sent flood. Scholars suggest that the biblical account was ...

  9. Gilgamesh flood myth - Wikipedia

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    The Gilgamesh flood tablet 11 (XI) contains additional story material besides the flood. The flood story was included because in it, the flood hero Utnapishtim is granted immortality by the gods and that fits the immortality theme of the epic. The main point seems to be that Utnapishtim was granted eternal life in unique, never-to-be-repeated ...