Most of us have heard the biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood. This story 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:
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.
The Shastus shared a story of the time when the flood came and destroyed all the animals except for a squirrel the size of a bear. Legend says that this mythical creature still exists on a mountain called by the Shastus.
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.
One of legends in Mexico says that the first age, the age of water, ended with a great flood. Everything perished except one man and one woman of the giant race. Many villages share the same story, with paintings of a boat floating in the waters carrying one man and one woman.
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.
Each of these stories tells us there was a catastrophic flood many centuries ago. In some of the stories the people faced east, toward the Atlantic Ocean. Are these stories telling the same tale, of the demise of Atlantis? Storytellers have carried forth an incredible story of change that resounded around the world.
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