The story of Noah and the Great Flood has carried both moral concepts and legend throughout history. Noah, the Ark, and the Flood is only one of hundreds of stories told around the world for hundreds and thousands of years. These are just a few of the stories shared around the world:
Cherokee tradition tells the story of a dog that ran back and forth along the banks of the river for days, howling and staring at the water. As its master tried to force the dog into his house the dog spoke, telling its master of the forthcoming calamity. The only hope was to throw it into the water so that a boat could be fetched. The man did as advised, and the family was saved from the tragic flood, surviving to repopulate the earth.
During a time of great flood, in California, on Reed Peak, there is legend of a coyote, the only living creature to survive in the world. There was a single feather floating in the rippled water. The coyote looked at the feather, and while watching the feather formed flesh and bones and became the first eagle. The eagle and the coyote formed an alliance, but were still lonely, and so they created men.
The Papagos near the Gila river holds the story of Montezuma. A great flood came, and only Montezuma and his friend the coyote survived. The coyote had prophesied that the flood was coming, and Montezuma prepared himself a boat. Following the floods the two met up again, and Montezuma sent the coyote in each of the four directions to discover where the sea remained.
In Mexico legend speaks of the age of water, when the inhabitants of earth were turned into fish. The Mexican Noah is known as Tezpi, who saved his children, several animals, and grains. When the water subsided he sent a vulture to clear away the carcasses, and then the hummingbird who returned with new green leaves which lead him to the mountain Colhuacan.
Many of these stories were shared in public domain books such as: Atlantis: the Antediluvian World by Ignatius Donnelly; The Mammoth and the Flood by Henry Hoyle Howorth; Ancient Athens: its History, Topography, and Remains by Thomas Henry Dyer.
With so many stories of great floods we can only wonder if all these legends point to the same Cataclysmic event? Plato gave us the story of Atlantis being wiped out by a major flood, with a large civilization disappearing in one day and one night. Storytellers have carried forth an amazing legend of events that has resounded around the world.
Cherokee tradition tells the story of a dog that ran back and forth along the banks of the river for days, howling and staring at the water. As its master tried to force the dog into his house the dog spoke, telling its master of the forthcoming calamity. The only hope was to throw it into the water so that a boat could be fetched. The man did as advised, and the family was saved from the tragic flood, surviving to repopulate the earth.
During a time of great flood, in California, on Reed Peak, there is legend of a coyote, the only living creature to survive in the world. There was a single feather floating in the rippled water. The coyote looked at the feather, and while watching the feather formed flesh and bones and became the first eagle. The eagle and the coyote formed an alliance, but were still lonely, and so they created men.
The Papagos near the Gila river holds the story of Montezuma. A great flood came, and only Montezuma and his friend the coyote survived. The coyote had prophesied that the flood was coming, and Montezuma prepared himself a boat. Following the floods the two met up again, and Montezuma sent the coyote in each of the four directions to discover where the sea remained.
In Mexico legend speaks of the age of water, when the inhabitants of earth were turned into fish. The Mexican Noah is known as Tezpi, who saved his children, several animals, and grains. When the water subsided he sent a vulture to clear away the carcasses, and then the hummingbird who returned with new green leaves which lead him to the mountain Colhuacan.
Many of these stories were shared in public domain books such as: Atlantis: the Antediluvian World by Ignatius Donnelly; The Mammoth and the Flood by Henry Hoyle Howorth; Ancient Athens: its History, Topography, and Remains by Thomas Henry Dyer.
With so many stories of great floods we can only wonder if all these legends point to the same Cataclysmic event? Plato gave us the story of Atlantis being wiped out by a major flood, with a large civilization disappearing in one day and one night. Storytellers have carried forth an amazing legend of events that has resounded around the world.
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