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| Tradition | Source | Passage | Confidence | Evidence | Record |
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| Biblical | Genesis | Genesis 7:17-24; 8:1-5 | medium | The flood was forty days on the earth... God remembered Noah... and the waters subsided. | record |
| Indigenous Australian | Australian Legendary Tales: folk-lore of the Noongahburrahs as told to the Piccaninnies | CONTENTS / PREFACE / INTRODUCTION / ANDREW LANG.; lines 1839-1964 | medium | Bahloo the Moon asks Mooregoo to lend or give him a rug and asks for weapons; Mooregoo repeatedly refuses to lend or give what he has made. | record |
| Daoist | Chuang Tzu: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer | THE OLD FISHERMAN. / CHAPTER XXXII. / CHAPTER XXXIII. / THE EMPIRE.; lines 14207-14322 | medium | "Of old, the great Yü drained off the flood of waters, and caused rivers and streams to flow through the nine divisions of the empire" and adjacent regions. | record |
| Buddhist | The Giant Crab, and Other Tales from Old India | THE GIANT CRAB / THE HYPOCRITICAL CAT / THE CROCODILE AND THE MONKEY / THE AXE, THE DRUM, THE BOWL, AND THE DIAMOND; lines 610-704 | low | The young man tips over the wishing-bowl, releasing a roaring torrent of water that floods the plain and drowns every soldier in the army except the king, who escapes to the city wall. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER I. THE FIGHT WITH THE FIRBOLGS / CHAPTER II. THE REIGN OF BRES / BOOK TWO: LUGH OF THE LONG HAND. / CHAPTER I. THE COMING OF LUGH; lines 1267-1358 | low | Balor tells the force to fight Ildnach, strike off his head, tie Ireland to the backs of their ships, let destroying water take its place, and put Ireland north of Lochlann so the Men of Dea cannot follow it. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | ENDNOTES / PREPARERS NOTE / PREFACE / INTRODUCTION; lines 531-624 | high | Prometheus and Pronoia produce Deucalion and Pyrrha, only survivors of the deluge; they have Hellen, ancestor of the Hellenic race, with further descent into Magnesians, Macedonians, Dorians, Ionians, and Aeolians. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE CERCOPES / THE BATTLE OF FROGS AND MICE / OF THE ORIGIN OF HOMER AND HESIOD, AND OF THEIR CONTEST / ENDNOTES; lines 9516-9643 | high | The note refers to the stones that Deucalion and Pyrrha transformed into men and women after the Flood. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE CERCOPES / THE BATTLE OF FROGS AND MICE / OF THE ORIGIN OF HOMER AND HESIOD, AND OF THEIR CONTEST / ENDNOTES; lines 9516-9643 | medium | The Dodona oracle was first consulted by Deucalion and Pyrrha after the Flood; later writers say the god responded through rustling oak leaves. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE THIRD BATTLE, AND THE ACTS OF AGAMEMNON. / BOOK XII. / ARGUMENT. / THE BATTLE AT THE GRECIAN WALL.; lines 11778-11898 | medium | In later times Neptune and Apollo, with rivers and Jove's rain, destroy the wall: waters undermine it, Neptune uses his trident, ruins are swallowed by waves, sand levels the place, and the rivers return to their old courses. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 12642-12768 | high | Noah is told by revelation that no more will believe except current believers; he is commanded to build the Ark under divine oversight and not plead for those to be drowned. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 12642-12768 | medium | When the sentence comes and the earth’s surface boils up, Noah is told to carry into the Ark one pair of every kind, his family with an exception, and the few who believed. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 12770-12897 | high | “O Earth! swallow up thy water”; the water abates, the decree is fulfilled, and the Ark rests upon Al-Djoudi. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 14942-15074 | high | Noah is sent to his people; after a long tarrying, the flood overtakes them, while Noah and those in the vessel are rescued and made a sign. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 15892-16024 | medium | Noah’s people treat him as a liar; God rescues Noah and those with him in the ark, makes them survive, and drowns those who reject the signs. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 16026-16159 | medium | Saba has two gardens, one on the right and one on the left, and is told to eat from the Lord's supplies and give thanks. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 16684-16805 | high | Noah tells his people to worship God alone and warns of chastisement; they accuse him of error and treat him as a liar; he and those with him are delivered in the ark, while the deniers are drowned. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 3457-3676 | medium | When the Flood rises high, people are borne in the Ark so the event may be a warning that the retaining ear retains. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 4762-4955 | high | Noah is rejected and asks for succour; heaven sends torrents, earth springs meet them, and Noah is carried on a planked vessel with nails, left as a sign. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 4957-5183 | high | Noah calls on God and is heard; he and his family are saved from great distress, his offspring are made survivors, peace is left for him among posterity, and the rest are drowned. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 5403-5596 | medium | Noah says his people rebel against him, follow ruinous possessors of riches and children, and plot a great plot. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 6440-6654 | high | God saves Noah and those with him "in the fully-laden ark," and afterwards drowns the rest. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 8862-9028 | high | God reveals to Noah to make the ark under divine eye and teaching when doom comes and the earth's surface boils up. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 9358-9506 | medium | Noah cries to God and is heard; he and his family are delivered from a great calamity, and the people who reject signs are drowned. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 9793-9936 | medium | The people of Noah treated their apostles as impostors; “we drowned them” and made them “a sign to mankind.” | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | A TABLE OF THE CHAPTERS / THE KORAN. / PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE / SECTION I.; lines 1301-1350 | high | God, displeased by pride and insolence, resolved to humble and disperse the people, sending a mighty flood that broke the mound by night while inhabitants slept and carried away the city, nearby towns, and people. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | A TABLE OF THE CHAPTERS / THE KORAN. / PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE / SECTION I.; lines 1301-1350 | high | The inundation of Aram is called a first great calamity in Yaman; eight tribes abandoned their dwellings, and some later gave rise to Ghassan and Hira. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | A TABLE OF THE CHAPTERS / THE KORAN. / PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE / SECTION I.; lines 1353-1403 | low | Jorham son of Kahtan ruled Hejaz; after Ismael married the daughter of Modad and had twelve sons, Kidar received the crown in one account, while another says Ismael's descendants expelled the Jorhamites, who later were destroyed by inundation. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | A TABLE OF THE CHAPTERS / THE KORAN. / PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE / SECTION I.; lines 1406-1456 | low | The Arabs are said to have preserved liberty with little interruption from the Deluge despite large armies sent against them. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | MY LORD, / A SKETCH / OF THE / LIFE OF GEORGE SALE.; lines 158-239 | low | Sale was chosen for the Universal History with named collaborators; he supplied the introduction on cosmogony or creation and the following chapter from creation to the flood; the passage rejects an accusation that this cosmogony promoted heretical views. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER VI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER VII / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 16058-16128 | high | "we delivered him and those who were with him in the ark ... we drowned those who charged our signs with falsehood" | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER VI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER VII / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 16130-16184 | medium | A note says believers entered a vessel with a male figure and reports traditions that eight, six, ten, twelve, seventy-eight, or eighty persons were saved in the ark. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER VII / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER VIII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 17480-17545 | medium | "we drowned the people of Pharaoh; for they were all unjust persons." | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER IX. / CHAPTER X. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 19146-19242 | high | Noah's people accuse him of imposture; God delivers Noah and those with him in the ark, makes them survive the flood, and drowns those who charge God's signs with falsehood. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER X. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 19469-19571 | medium | It is revealed to Noah that no further people will believe except those already believing; he is told not to grieve, to make an ark according to revealed form and dimensions, and that the unjust are doomed to be drowned. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER X. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 19573-19653 | high | The sentence is executed; the oven pours forth water; Noah is commanded to carry animal pairs, his family except one already condemned, and believers into the ark; few believe with him. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER X. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 19573-19653 | medium | The sentence is executed; the oven pours forth water; Noah is commanded to carry animal pairs, his family except one already condemned, and believers into the ark; few believe with him. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER X. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 19655-19741 | high | “O earth, swallow up thy waters, and thou, O heaven, withhold thy rain”; the water abates, the decree is fulfilled, and the ark rests on Mount al-Judi; the ungodly people are dismissed. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER X. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 19655-19741 | medium | “O earth, swallow up thy waters, and thou, O heaven, withhold thy rain”; the water abates, the decree is fulfilled, and the ark rests on Mount al-Judi; the ungodly people are dismissed. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 20884-20904 | low | Egyptians dispute over Joseph’s burial, agree to place his body in a marble coffin and sink it in the Nile, believing it may help the river’s regular increase and prevent famine. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XVIII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XIX. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 24046-24144 | low | The prophets are linked to the posterity of Adam, those carried in the ark with Noah, and the posterity of Abraham and Israel; when the signs of the Merciful are read, they fall down worshipping and weep. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XX. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 25159-25240 | medium | "we protected him from the people who accused our signs of falsehood; ... we drowned them all." | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXIII. / ENTITLED, THE TRUE BELIEVERS; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 25890-26000 | high | Noah is commanded to make the ark; when the oven pours forth water, he must take one pair of every animal species and his family except those sentenced to destruction; the unjust will be drowned. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | ENTITLED, AL FORKAN; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXVI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 27321-27391 | medium | Noah asks God to judge and deliver him and the true believers; “we delivered him, and those who were with him, in the ark filled with men and animals; and afterwards we drowned the rest.” | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XXVIII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXIX. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 28542-28629 | high | Noah is sent to his people and remains one thousand years minus fifty; the deluge takes away the unjust, while Noah and those in the ark are delivered, and the ark is made a sign. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XXXIII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXXIV. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 30244-30332 | high | Because the people turn aside, the inundation of al Arem is sent against them, and their two gardens are changed into gardens of bitter fruit, tamarisks, and some lote-tree fruit as reward for ingratitude. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | ENTITLED, Y. S.; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXXVII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 31094-31213 | high | Noah calls on God and is heard; he and his family are delivered from great distress; his offspring survive to people the earth; peace is bestowed on Noah; afterward the others are drowned. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LIV. / ENTITLED, THE MOON; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 34760-34864 | high | The gates of heaven are opened with pouring water, the earth breaks forth into springs, and the waters of heaven and earth meet according to an established decree. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LXIX. / ENTITLED, THE INFALLIBLE; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 36754-36875 | high | "When the water of the deluge arose, we carried you in the ark which swam thereon" | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LXXI. / ENTITLED, NOAH; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 36977-37065 | medium | When Noah calls them to the true faith, the people put fingers in their ears, cover themselves with garments, persist in infidelity, and proudly disdain his counsel. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / FINIS / AN INDEX / OF THE; lines 39628-39754 | low | "Al Arem, the inundation of"; "Canaan, an unbelieving son of Noah". | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / FINIS / AN INDEX / OF THE; lines 39927-39986 | high | Al Judi is the mountain where Noah's ark rested. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / FINIS / AN INDEX / OF THE; lines 40156-40260 | high | An oven is identified as the place from which the first waters of the deluge poured forth. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III / SECTION IV.; lines 5675-5730 | medium | Adam is directed to turn toward and compass the place; Seth builds a house in the same form after Adam's death; the Deluge destroys it; Abraham and Ismael rebuild it at God's command on the former site and model by revelation. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | A TABLE OF THE CHAPTERS / THE KORAN. / PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE / SECTION I.; lines 931-1023 | low | Arabia in an extended sense is mapped by seas, river, and gulf; the Arabs are said to have possessed much of it almost from the Flood and expanded by settlements or incursions. | record |
| Hindu | Maha-bharata | BOOK IV / DYUTA / BOOK V / PATIVRATA-MAHATMYA; lines 2149-2281 | medium | The passage lists legends of Nala and Damayanti, Agastya draining the ocean, Parasu-Rama killing Kshatriyas, Bhagiratha bringing the Ganges from the skies, Manu and the universal deluge, Vishnu and other gods, and Rama's deeds known from the Ramayana. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE SEVENTH. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 11350-11455 | high | Cerambus, aided by Nymphs and lifted on wings, escapes when the earth is covered by the sea in the flood of Deucalion. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 1224-1310 | medium | The explanation says Ovid follows a prevailing tradition closely resembling Scripture concerning divine determination to punish the earth by a deluge because human wickedness was great. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 1313-1408 | high | Fable introduction and opening state that Jupiter resolves to destroy corrupt humankind by deluge; the gods approve or silently assent yet grieve and ask about the earth’s future; Jupiter promises a new generation from a wondrous source. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 1313-1408 | medium | Fable introduction and opening state that Jupiter resolves to destroy corrupt humankind by deluge; the gods approve or silently assent yet grieve and ask about the earth’s future; Jupiter promises a new generation from a wondrous source. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 1410-1460 | high | Nereids wonder at submerged groves, cities, and houses; dolphins enter woods and strike branches and oaks. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 1410-1460 | medium | The note compares Ovid’s expressions about the mouths of fountains with Genesis language about the fountains of the great deep. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 1463-1562 | high | The explanation says Pausanias mentions five deluges, especially those of Ogyges and Deucalion; it states that Ovid adopted a universal deluge tradition in which sea waters joined waters from heaven and compares this wording with Genesis 7:11. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 1622-1709 | high | The fable introduction states that Deucalion and Pyrrha re-people the earth by casting stones behind them as prescribed by Themis; they resolve to pray to the deities and go to the waters of Cephisus. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 1712-1812 | high | The note says the Peneus was stopped, rain overflowed Thessaly, and Deucalion with some subjects fled to Mount Parnassus until the waters abated; it also explains the poet’s stones as children of the preserved and cites possible word meanings for stone, child, or people. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 1712-1812 | high | The fable heading states that the sun-warmed Earth produces many monsters, including Python, whom Apollo kills with arrows, after which Apollo establishes the Pythian games and takes the surname Pythius. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 1815-1899 | medium | The explanation interprets Python philosophically as the sun’s heat dispersing harmful exhalations from receding flood waters, causing reptiles born from flood-slime to disappear. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII / LITERALLY TRANSLATED WITH NOTES AND EXPLANATIONS / INTRODUCTION. / BOOK I.; lines 225-247 | high | The blood-born race becomes impious; Jupiter transforms Lycaon into a wolf and destroys humans and animals by deluge, except for Deucalion and Pyrrha, who renew humanity by throwing stones after the waters abate. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII / LITERALLY TRANSLATED WITH NOTES AND EXPLANATIONS / INTRODUCTION. / BOOK I.; lines 225-247 | high | The blood-born race becomes impious; Jupiter transforms Lycaon into a wolf and destroys humans and animals by deluge, except for Deucalion and Pyrrha, who renew humanity by throwing stones after the waters abate. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 1676-1772 | medium | The couple tries to kill their single cottage goose for the divine guests; the goose flees toward the gods, who forbid its death and announce punishment for the impious neighborhood while telling the couple to go to the mountain summit. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | BOOK THE ELEVENTH. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 6157-6253 | medium | “The work is now finished; the king refuses the reward,” and Neptune drives his waters to Troy, making land like sea and overwhelming fields with waves. | record |
| Sufi | The Mystics of Islam | CHAPTER V / SAINTS AND MIRACLES / CHAPTER VI / THE UNITIVE STATE; lines 3713-3824 | high | He became Noah; at His prayer the world was flooded, and He went into the Ark. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | RETURN OF THE GREEKS FROM TROY. / PRONOUNCING INDEX. / A COMPLETE COURSE IN THE STUDY OF ENGLISH. / NOTES; lines 11638-11773 | medium | A frightful monster springs from slimy stagnant waters remaining on the earth after Deucalion's deluge. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | RHEA (OPS). / DIVISION OF THE WORLD. / THEORIES AS TO THE ORIGIN OF MAN. / THIRD DYNASTY--OLYMPIAN DIVINITIES.; lines 1173-1257 | medium | The gods announce the wicked village's doom, lead the couple to a hill, show them a watery plain where the village stood, and transform their cottage into a temple; the couple asks to serve there and die together. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | VESTALIA. / PART II.--LEGENDS. / CADMUS. / PERSEUS.; lines 6633-6734 | high | Perseus arrives in Ethiopia, sees flood devastation and Andromeda chained to a rock; Cassiopea's boast against the Nereides led them to ask Poseidon for vengeance, and he sent inundation and a devouring monster. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | SATURN. / RHEA (OPS). / DIVISION OF THE WORLD. / THEORIES AS TO THE ORIGIN OF MAN.; lines 746-830 | high | Because humanity became degenerate, the gods resolved to destroy mankind by flood; Deucalion, son of Prometheus, and Pyrrha alone are saved because of piety. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | SATURN. / RHEA (OPS). / DIVISION OF THE WORLD. / THEORIES AS TO THE ORIGIN OF MAN.; lines 746-830 | high | Because humanity became degenerate, the gods resolved to destroy mankind by flood; Deucalion, son of Prometheus, and Pyrrha alone are saved because of piety. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | SATURN. / RHEA (OPS). / DIVISION OF THE WORLD. / THEORIES AS TO THE ORIGIN OF MAN.; lines 746-830 | high | Deucalion and Pyrrha consult Themis’s oracle and are told to cover their heads and throw the bones of their mother behind them. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XXV: THE ELVES / CHAPTER XXVI: THE SIGURD SAGA / CHAPTER XXVII: THE STORY OF FRITHIOF / CHAPTER XXVIII: THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS; lines 12224-12362 | high | The conflagration consumes everything; the blackened earth sinks beneath the boiling sea; Ragnarok is declared complete, and the passage states that goodness will rise from the ruin after evil perishes in Surtr's flames. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XXVI: THE SIGURD SAGA / CHAPTER XXVII: THE STORY OF FRITHIOF / CHAPTER XXVIII: THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS / CHAPTER XXIX: GREEK AND NORTHERN MYTHOLOGIES; lines 12980-13082 | high | Another interpretation presents Ragnarok and world-submersion as a Northern version of the Deluge; Lif and Lifthrasir survive to repeople the world like Deucalion and Pyrrha, and Gimli receives surviving gods. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CONTENTS / LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS / INTRODUCTION / CHAPTER I: THE BEGINNING; lines 456-592 | high | Giants wage war against Buri and Börr; Börr marries Bestla; Odin, Vili, and Ve slay Ymir; Ymir's blood causes a deluge in which only Bergelmir escapes by boat with his wife. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XIII: HEIMDALL / CHAPTER XIV: HERMOD / CHAPTER XV: VIDAR / CHAPTER XVI: VALI; lines 6022-6149 | medium | Vali is one of the twelve deities in Glads-heim, shares Valaskialf with Odin, and is destined to survive the last battle and reign with Vidar over the regenerated earth. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | L. E. R. / CHAPTER XXI: BALDER / CHAPTER XXII: LOKI / CHAPTER XXIII: THE GIANTS; lines 8535-8655 | high | Ymir is slain by the gods; his progeny drown in his blood; Bergelmir and his wife escape to Jötun-heim and become ancestors of the giants. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | SCHLEGEL. / GORRESIO. / HIPPOLYTE FAUCHE. / ADDITIONAL NOTES.; lines 57936-58038 | high | In the fish avatar Vishnu saves King Satyavrata, the seven Rishis, and their wives in an ark from a deluge that destroys the earth. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | SCHLEGEL. / GORRESIO. / HIPPOLYTE FAUCHE. / ADDITIONAL NOTES.; lines 58112-58192 | medium | The note describes avatár examples: a gigantic tortoise sustaining Mount Mandar in the ocean, a fish recovering the lost Veda from the sea and saving mankind from waters, and an avatár effected through a mysterious vase and magic liquor. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XXXIV. Brahmadatta. / Canto XXXIX. The Sons Of Sagar. / Canto XL. The Cleaving Of The Earth. / Canto XLI. Kapil.; lines 5908-6061 | high | Gangá, Himálaya’s child, hears the command, grows wrathful, and rushes down from the sky, intending to sweep Śiva into the deepest hell. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XXXIV. Brahmadatta. / Canto XXXIX. The Sons Of Sagar. / Canto XL. The Cleaving Of The Earth. / Canto XLI. Kapil.; lines 6063-6131 | medium | Brahma tells Bhagirath that he has earned success, won fame, and caused heavenly Ganga to flow on earth. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | THE SUPPLIANT DOVE. / INDEX OF PRINCIPAL NAMES / FOOTNOTES / ILIAD. XVII. 426.; lines 63848-64027 | low | A note refers to “the great deluge.” | record |
| Greek | The Republic | The Republic / THE REPUBLIC / INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.; lines 7874-7955 | high | Ancient experience is said to suggest cycles in which arts are discovered and lost, cities overthrown and rebuilt, deluges, volcanoes, and convulsions alter the earth, mankind is repeatedly destroyed, a remnant is preserved, and the world begins again after a deluge. | record |
| Greek | The Republic | The Republic / THE REPUBLIC / INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.; lines 7874-7955 | high | Ancient experience is said to suggest cycles in which arts are discovered and lost, cities overthrown and rebuilt, deluges, volcanoes, and convulsions alter the earth, mankind is repeatedly destroyed, a remnant is preserved, and the world begins again after a deluge. | record |
| Sufi | The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam | E.H. WHINFIELD, M.A. / INTRODUCTION / E.H. WHINFIELD / QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM; lines 10370-10604 | medium | The speaker says repentance was in vain, rejects preaching about Noah and his flood, and asks for a flood of wine to drown pain. | record |
| Sufi | The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam | QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM / MONSIEUR J.B. NICOLAS / THE QUATRAINS OF KHAYYAM / THE QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM; lines 12913-13101 | medium | Youth belongs to wine and beauty; “water once brought ruin to this world by annihilating it,” so the speaker chooses to drown in wine. | record |
| Sufi | The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam | E.H. WHINFIELD, M.A. / INTRODUCTION / E.H. WHINFIELD / QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM; lines 8071-8296 | medium | Youth is for the vine, cup, and revellers; because a flood of water once wasted earth, the speaker recommends floods of wine. | record |
| Maya/Kiche | The Popol Vuh | The First Book, wooden mannikins | high | The waters were swollen, and a great flood came upon the mannikins of wood. | record |